Check the "All target volume data will be overwritten. You get another option to cancel the process. You should close all other programs now and save all work before you continue. The program warns you that all data on the target disk will be overwritten in the process. You may also select cancel to postpone it. Just select "ok" on the screen to start the cloning right away.
Macrium Reflect Free displays a "what do you want to do now" prompt next. Select the finish button to complete the configuration. There you find information about the cloning and each of the partitions that the backup app will copy in the process to the new drive.
Macrium Reflect Free displays an overview on the final screen. Since this is a one-time operation, there is no need to schedule the task so that it can be executed again in the future. Select next to proceed and then next again to skip the scheduling part. The two disks do not need the same amount of space, but there needs to be enough free space available. Note that you need sufficient space on the new disk so that all data that is on the source disk can be copied.
You should see an exact copy of the disk structure after the selection. Once done, select the copy partitions button and then "exact partition offset and length" from the selection menu. Since you want to copy the system disk, you need to make sure that the entire disk is free. Use the "delete partition" action to remove any existing partition from the second disk. This guide uses a free disk backup software, Macrium Reflect Free to be precise, to clone the system partition of the slow SSD to the fast SSD. While there are many guides on cloning available on the Internet, most appear to advertise paid products.
Since I did not want to reinstall Windows or apps, I decided to clone the disk as this would speed things up significantly. Cloning copies all data from one disk to another.
I had a good 256 Gigabyte Solid State Drive still lying around from an old PC and decided to replace the slow SSD of the new PC with the fast SSD of the old. It had a good amount of space, 512 Gigabytes, but as soon as write processes would start, it would slow down things on the entire system considerably. I bought a new Windows 11 PC this week for Office work and noticed that the Solid State Drive was slowing things down. The method should work on devices running previous versions of Windows as well. 3pin female 3pin male 3pin male x2 4pin female 4pin male x2 5V 3pin male 5V 3pin male x2 10pin male 12V 3pin male x2 14pin male ATX female 24pin ATX male 20pin ATX male 24pin ATX P4 female ATX P4 male ATX plug 24pin ATX socket 24pin both sides EPS 8pin female EPS 8pin male eSATA L-Type plug IDC 40pin plug x3 IDE 10pin female IDE 10pin male IDE 20pin female IDE 20pin male IDE 40pin IDE 44pin Micro SATA plug Micro SATA socket mini Molex female Molex female Molex female x2 Molex female x3 Molex male Molex male x2 PCIe 6pin female PCIe 6pin male PCIe 8pin female PCIe 8pin female x2 SATA 15pin plug SATA female SATA female x2 SATA female x3 SATA L-Type angled plug SATA L-Type plug SATA L-Type plug x2 SATA male SATA male x2 SATA male x2 angled SATA plug SATA plug angled SATA plug x2 SATA socket Slim SATA female Slim SATA male USB 3.0 19pin USB A plug USB A plug x2 USB A socket x2 USB B micro plug Ĭapacity up to 8 TB clone-function for two HDDs without PC connection converts 4 microSD cards to SATA SSD external power supply fits into the 9,5mm high CD/DVD slot of a laptop fits into the 12,7mm high CD/DVD slot of a laptop hot-plug hot swapping installation for CD/DVD drive slot JBOD LED status indicator NCQ compatible PCI express PCI Express 3.0 PnP PnP and hot-plug RAID 1 RAID 0 RAID 0+1 stores 1x HDD 2,5" stores 1x HDD/SSD 2,5" stores 2x HDD/SSD 2,5" stores 3,5" HDD stores 5x HDD 3,5" stores 10x 3,5" HDD stores 14x HDD (8x3,5" and 6x2,5") supports 1x HDD 1.8" 2,5" 3.5" SATA supports 1x HDD 2,5" supports 1x HDD 2,5"/ 3,5" SATA/SATAII supports 1x HDD 2,5"/ 3,5" SATA/SATAII/SATAIII supports 1x HDD 2,5"/ 3,5" SATA/SATAII/SATAIII and SSD supports 1x HDD 2,5" and SSD supports 1x HDD 2,5" SATA/SATAII and SSD supports 1x HDD 2,5" SATA/SATAII/SATAIII supports 1x HDD 2,5" SATA/SATAII/SATAIII and SSD supports 1x HDD 3,5" supports 1x M.2 SATA SSD supports 1x mSATA SSD supports 2x HDD 2,5"/ 3,5" SATA/SATAII/SATAIII and SSD supports 2x HDD 2,5" and SSD supports 2x HDD 3,5" SATA/SATAII/SATAIII supports 2x M.2 SATA SSD supports 2x mSATA SSD supports 2x SATA SSD supports ATAPI, ATA/133, ATA/100, ATA/66, ATA/33, EIDE, IDE supports HDD 2,5"/ 3,5" SATA/SATAII supports M.This guide walks you through the steps of cloning the system disk (or any other disk) of a Windows 11 PC for free.