Connecting clone driveīefore you begin, connect the new drive to your computer’s motherboard. Use these steps to clone a hard drive to an SSD (or any other kind of drive) using Macrium Reflect. How to clone an HDD to SSD using Macrium Reflect

In this guide, you’ll learn the steps to use Macrium Reflect to clone a hard drive with a Windows 10 installation to another drive. (If you’re unfamiliar, drive cloning is the process of copying all the bits on a source drive to another equal or larger destination drive.)Īlthough Macrium Reflect is a paid software, it also offers a free edition, which you can use when you’re replacing the hard drive (HDD) on your computer to a new Solid-State Drive (SSD), and you need to migrate your current installation with all your settings, apps, and files without the need of reinstallation and reconfiguration. The OEM 2Tb HDD includes a partition labeled 'HP Recovery' which is OEM recovery software from HP that I do not believe has ever been updated and I do not believe is used at all by the present Windows 10 OS.Macrium Reflect is a robust backup solution for home and business users that also includes an option to perform drive cloning similar to Clonezilla. Second question that applies only to my tower PC cloning: PC is a 5-year old HP tower PC that I have taken from Windows 7 through Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10. Are there any potential problems or special steps to my proposed 'downsizing?'

My question is can the partition resizing function be used to reduce the sizes of the partitions manually as I prepare the clone command instructions? All of the examples I have found in the Macrium help materials and KB deal with resizing partitions when cloning from a smaller HDD/SD to a large volume HDD/SSD.

The purpose of the clone is to replace the HDD with the SSD. The HDD is mostly empty - OS, system, data occupying only about 300G. On a Windows 10 desktop tower PC I plan to clone a 2Tb HDD to a 512G SSD.

Macrium reflect cloning to smaller ssd