I transferred my system in a different manner yesterday, and it worked very well
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So, I have two NVMe SSDs in my machine: One for the system and applications (C:\), and one that holds only data (D:\). Both were 1 TB drives, but the D:\ drive was rapidly running out of capacity. So I bought a 2 TB Samsung to replace the D:\ drive. This left me with a spare 1 TB Samsung 850 PRO drive with an integral heatsink - A very good drive. I decided to move the contents of the system drive to the spare 850 with a view to replace the existing C: drive. Now, I suppose the usual approach would be to clone the system to the replacement SSD, but I tried a different approach: Using Powershell / Diskpart I ran the "Clean" command on the 850. Then I used Diskpart to convert the drive to gpt. That was all the preparation I did. I did not create any partitions on the drive. It was totally bare bones. Then I took the last Macrium Reflect image of the old C:\ drive and restored it to the blank 850. Macrium created and formatted all necessary partitions. I was up and running with the 850 as the new C:\ drive in a manner of 5 or 6 minutes. Nice! One word of caution: Don't mess with Diskpart unless you know what you are doing. It is very potent. It can wipe the entire content of a disk in a flash with a single command: All data and even all partitions!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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So, I have two NVMe SSDs in my machine: One for the system and applications (C:\), and one that holds only data (D:\). Both were 1 TB drives, but the D:\ drive was rapidly running out of capacity. So I bought a 2 TB Samsung to replace the D:\ drive. This left me with a spare 1 TB Samsung 850 PRO drive with an integral heatsink - A very good drive. I decided to move the contents of the system drive to the spare 850 with a view to replace the existing C: drive. Now, I suppose the usual approach would be to clone the system to the replacement SSD, but I tried a different approach: Using Powershell / Diskpart I ran the "Clean" command on the 850. Then I used Diskpart to convert the drive to gpt. That was all the preparation I did. I did not create any partitions on the drive. It was totally bare bones. Then I took the last Macrium Reflect image of the old C:\ drive and restored it to the blank 850. Macrium created and formatted all necessary partitions. I was up and running with the 850 as the new C:\ drive in a manner of 5 or 6 minutes. Nice! One word of caution: Don't mess with Diskpart unless you know what you are doing. It is very potent. It can wipe the entire content of a disk in a flash with a single command: All data and even all partitions!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
I downloaded the Trial version of Macrium today. Tried 2 backups to external drive and both failed and when they failed it messed my system up so bad I had to reboot. To uninstall took 3 tries with a boot in between. It took downloading Unlocker to unlock the files it had created before I could delete them. I've been looking to replace Acronis since they went to subscription and Macrium was at the top of the list...not any more.
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I downloaded the Trial version of Macrium today. Tried 2 backups to external drive and both failed and when they failed it messed my system up so bad I had to reboot. To uninstall took 3 tries with a boot in between. It took downloading Unlocker to unlock the files it had created before I could delete them. I've been looking to replace Acronis since they went to subscription and Macrium was at the top of the list...not any more.
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Strange! I have used Macrium hundreds of times on several machines over many years. I never had a single issue with it. I will never switch to anything else!
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Yeah I thought it strange too. I've looked at buying it for a long time but help off until Acronis just got so screwed up I couldn't use it. The reviews have always been positive and I thought it would be a done deal. Being it's a trial version there's no support so all I can do is hold out a little long with Acronis. I have an older version that has worked for a long time.
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Yeah I thought it strange too. I've looked at buying it for a long time but help off until Acronis just got so screwed up I couldn't use it. The reviews have always been positive and I thought it would be a done deal. Being it's a trial version there's no support so all I can do is hold out a little long with Acronis. I have an older version that has worked for a long time.
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Or you can try AOMEI as OG is very happy with it too
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