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Advice on cloning system drive please.

Post by eny » Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:23 pm

I would appreciate any advice you can offer me on how to clone my failing system drive onto a new one.

Existing drive is a Crucial M4 SSD 128gb which is showing "S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and Replace". I have a new Crucial MX500 SSD, 250GB ready to go. I was going to pop that on the Samsung SSD drive plug and disconnect all the other HD's I have in there, so that there is just the 2 Crucials. Could you tell me how I clone the system onto the new drive, and recommend any (free if poss) reliable software to do it, please.

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Re: Advice on cloning system drive please.

Post by DjchunKfunK » Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:32 pm

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

This should do it for you.

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Re: Advice on cloning system drive please.

Post by Hatredsheart » Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:46 pm

DjchunKfunK wrote:
Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:32 pm
https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

This should do it for you.
What he said, done it many times with zero problems.
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Re: Advice on cloning system drive please.

Post by eny » Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:39 pm

Cool, thanks gents. So I just swap the new for the old afterwards and check it boots ok?
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Re: Advice on cloning system drive please.

Post by DjchunKfunK » Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:45 pm

Pretty much, don't even need to swap it around can just take out the bad drive.

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Re: Advice on cloning system drive please.

Post by eny » Tue Jan 12, 2021 4:57 pm

Cool thanks, will probably use it as a game drive just to see how long it takes to fail fully.

I appreciate the help guys, thank you.
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