Check this guide and learn how to effectively clone your HDD onto a new SSD. Enjoy the fast bootups and quick launch apps from the SSD.

Macrium Reflect (free) helps you bypass that, but it’s even more useful when you need to make a backup (or clone) of an entire drive—especially if it’s one you’re actively using, like your ...

Macrium Reflect seemed to clone the drive just fine, but now I can't boot to it even after selecting the drive in BIOS as the first boot device. I guess I will remove the HDD and see if it will ...

The cloning process is fairly intuitive using the Macrium Reflect software. You'll want to select the cloning option in the Reflect software, and you'll want to be sure to clone over all the drive ...

Make sure both your hard drive and SSD are hooked up to your computer, and then you can run the software and follow the steps to clone your hard drive over to your SSD.

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Macrium Reflect Free backup and imaging software, offers compressed imaging, bootable restore and many other features. Read review, impressions, tutorial.

2.5-inch SATA SSD: Samsung 860 EVO SSD (From $58 at Amazon) Enclosure for cloning: Inateck SATA drive enclosure ($20 at Amazon) Cloning tool: Macrium Reflect 7 (Free at Macrium) ...

Some of the popular free disk cloning utilities include Clonezilla, EaseUS Todo Backup Free, and Macrium Reflect Free.

You can clone a hard drive to make a duplicate that you can use to replace a failed drive or get a new computer up and running quickly.