System running on 'old' disk, new SSD attached by USB
Go to www.macrium.com/reflectfree & download software
Step by step details, ignore if it is obvious.
Scroll to "Download Macrium Reflect 7 Free Edition"
Click on "Home Use"
Enter your email address or don't. I didn't.
Click on "Save File"
Install software
Step by step details, ignore if it is obvious.
Double click download file to launch
Window appears, don't even read, just click on "Download"
When system requests authorisation, click on "yes".
Window appears, click on "next"
Next window appears, click on "next"
Accept the terms, click on "next".
Select "home", click on next
Click on register if you want, not if not. I didn't.
Accept defaults, click on "next"
Click on "Install"
Click on "finish" and it'll start the application.
Start app if it didn't start already, and.........
Yer actual disk cloning...
- A screen appears with your disks and partitions
- Click on the check box on the left of the disk you wish to clone.
- Underneath will appear the words "Clone this disk", click on them.
- A new window will appear seeking a destination to clone to (check also that on the source disk all partitions are checked)
- Click on "Select a disk to clone to"
- Select your SSD
- For the C Drive only, click on the partition, click on "Cloned partition properties", click on "Maximum", click on "ok"
- Click on "Advanced options" and make sure that the "Perform an Intelligent Sector copy", "Verify File system" and "Enable SSD Trim" are all checked.
- Click on OK
- Click on "Next"
- A schedule window pops up, ignore it, click on "next"
- A summary / confirmation window pops up, click on "Finish"
Find something else to do for ages and ages...........
Shut everything down, switch disks so the SSD is now in the PC, start up....
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