Cloning, back-up software.

[Mick Naughty]

Pretty straight forward, bought my mother a laptop again. Wanting to clone or back up everything so I can install an ssd.

Would just reinstall the os again but its different with all her info she doesn't remember.

 

Any decent programs I can get for this, Ill buy it if I have to.

Ive bought one before that came with software for it but it was advertised as such, just getting a cheap small one for her as it doesn't need to be nice.

[DarkEnergy]

Either MiniTool or EaseUS.

[Flavortown2k16]

pretty sure there's some programs, but if you copy stuff from all three folders from appdata and the shite from the personal folders.
Im not 100% sure, but you should be able to robocopy the whole C drive to another one, given there's enough room. Atleast the user folder can be moved this way and it should come with the appdata folders that way

[Mick Naughty]

2 minutes ago, DarkEnergy said:

Either MiniTool or EaseUS.

I already have the easeus data recovery wizard. So scan the old drive and recover it to the ssd? Or is there a specific program from them I should use?

[TARS]

I would recommend Acronis, I have been cloning my drives for years and it’s never let me down.

[DarkEnergy]

1 minute ago, Mick Naughty said:

I already have the easeus data recovery wizard. So scan the old drive and recover it to the ssd? Or is there a specific program from them I should use?

I'd just use it to clone everything to the SSD (there should be a clone option). You could always backup files before you do it (Either with Window's File History or manually), but I've never had issues with cloning before.