It's available to anyone, no matter what brand drive you have, so if your drive manufacturer doesn't offer a migration tool, Macrium Reflect is your next best bet. Just download the installer for the free home version and run through the wizard to get it up and running on your PC. Western Digital and SanDisk users can use WD's version of Acronis True Image (Opens in a new window) to copy their data using these instructions (Opens in a new window).įor this guide, we'll be using Macrium Reflect (Opens in a new window)-it's a free drive-cloning tool that works with any brand of hard drive and SSD. For example, if you bought a Samsung SSD, we recommend downloading Samsung Data Migration (Opens in a new window) and following the instructions in the user guide. If your drive manufacturer offers a migration program, that might be your best bet. There are many different drive-cloning tools on the market, and unfortunately there's no free, one-size-fits-all option. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages.See forum topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I have documented (with images) the process that I have used multiple times for my own laptops using Backup & Recovery. See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk.
Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB.
It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph: Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.
See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases. Ralph, welcome to these public User Forums.
0 kommentar(er)
