Here’s a link to Macrium’s Site: After installing Macrium Reflect, these are the steps I did to successfully clone. Your mileage may vary but I have had more success with this than with the Samsung Data Migration as of late. Shortcut on desktop: 2. Click Clone This Disk… 3. Click Select a disk to clone to…then select the disk – in this example Disk 2 5. Note that if your drive is not larger, your partition will be shrunken as noted.Click Next.Ĭlick Copy Select Partitions and it will copy all partitions from your existing drive. 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). Swap your old hard drive for your new SSD. Boot to BIOS and change/verify your SATA Operation is AHCI. I install Samsung Magician and set the OS Optimization to Max Performance or Max Reliability. You can Over Provision or run maintenance. Head to the download page (opens in new tab) and scroll toward the bottom to Reflect 8 Free. Using RAPID Mode is nice as well but I’ve run into failures there too. Next, you'll need to install Macrium Reflect Free. Go to, click Home Use to download for your personal use. It prompts you to enter your email address but you can click Continue to proceed with the download.

Save the file and run it once it complete.

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