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Once complete, you should be able to shut down your computer, remove the USB to SATA adapter from the SSD and swap that with your old hard drive. It can take 30 minutes to much longer depending on how much space you consume on your hard drive. I cannot proceed any longer with the instructions but if you continue clicking Next, it should have you start the process of cloning. It typically needs to be the same size as your existing or larger. Keep in mind, your new disk must have sufficient disk space.

select that.Īnd now it should look like this. Once you click “Select a disk to clone to…”, it will list your other drive. Plugging it into your computer with a SATA cable directly can be faster at cloning but may take some more work. You can do this with an external USB to SATA connector or plug it into your computer with a SATA cable. Click “Select a disk to clone to…” and then select the new drive you have hooked up. You should see your main hard drive (C:\) and the external drive listed as show below. What I’ve used to hook up an SSD externally is a USB to SATA connector. This will open the program.Īt this point, your hard drives will appear in the list below. Keep “Launch now” checked and click Finish. When complete, the following window appears. Click Next.Īt this point, the installer will run. Windows installer permissions may pop up for you to install the software.Īccept the terms then click Next again. You can leave the all the options as is and click Download. The window will open as follows, you will need to download the actual installer now. Save the file and run it once it complete. It prompts you to enter your email address but you can click Continue to proceed with the download.

Go to, click Home Use to download for your personal use. Using RAPID Mode is nice as well but I’ve run into failures there too. You can Over Provision or run maintenance. I install Samsung Magician and set the OS Optimization to Max Performance or Max Reliability. Boot to BIOS and change/verify your SATA Operation is AHCI. Swap your old hard drive for your new SSD. It will take some time for it to clone depending on how much data you have and the connection type you used (SATA v USB, etc). Note that if your drive is not larger, your partition will be shrunken as noted.Click Next. Click Copy Select Partitions and it will copy all partitions from your existing drive. Click Select a disk to clone to…then select the disk – in this example Disk 2 5. Shortcut on desktop: 2. Click Clone This Disk… 3.

Your mileage may vary but I have had more success with this than with the Samsung Data Migration as of late. Here’s a link to Macrium’s Site: After installing Macrium Reflect, these are the steps I did to successfully clone.