In this video I'm going to show you how to clone a dying hard drive to a new drive.
In this case we're using a solid-state drive. I got my two drives here.
I got the old one plugged in already into a SATA to USB adapter.
It's powered up and plugged in.
I got the new drive sitting right here. ADATA solid-state drive.
Here's the adapter I'm going to be using. You can use any one of these
from anywhere you can pickup.
and it basically, it's got the SATA connectors, just plug it in together.
This particular one has a power switch separately, so we can turn it on to give
it power, in addition to the USB cable, rather than just have that give power alone.
Now we're ready to move into the software.
We're gonna be using Acronis True Image but before using this software
we want to check the disk manager, because as you'll see as soon as
we opened the software... the disk manager, it comes up to initialize the disk.
We can't clone it if it's not initialized. So it'll show the disk
number. We just click OK and it's initialized. If you scroll down to the
bottom you should see the last two drives plugged in which is the old one.
Which is the source. In my case it's disk 7, and the
destination is disk 8. Make a mental note of this now;
disk 7 to disk 8.
Now in Acronis were going to go to Tools, and then Clone Disk.
Clone disk wizard comes up,
leave it as automatic and you'll see here it's showing disk 8 and 9 as
the last two drives. Disk 8 is our source disk, you can see it
showing green is used space, and in the disk manager it was disk 7, and the
new one was disk 8 whereas in Acronis it's actually disk 9.
You could see the other disks that we have installed in this particular computer
but you don't want to touch those. So make sure if you're doing this you're
not touching your main operating system disk.
So just go next
and after a bit of time we'll see we can now select our target disk, which in this
case is disk 9. Highlight that and hit next.
Remember Disk Manager it was disk 8, in this case it's disk 9 in Acronis.
Disk Manager always starts the disks from just 0 where Acronis starts from
disk 1. So now we'll see the summary of the disk. The source to the destination
8 to 9. What the disk is looking like currently before, and what it's going
to look like after the cloning is complete. If this looks correct to you
then you can go ahead and hit proceed.
It'll come up with cloning disk and eventually it'll come up with an
estimated time remaining. Now this in some cases may stay up on your screen
like this until it's done; In some cases it will come up within 30
seconds by the time I'm done talking here and it hasn't popped up to prompt
you to reboot the computer saying you must restart in order to complete the
cloning process or it will not do it. So you'll have to restart and that's when
it does the cloning. When it's finished cloning it'll boot the computer back up
normally. In this case it looks like it's gonna stay here on this screen until the
cloning is complete. Once the cloning is done then we can simply disconnect the
drives and put the new drive into the computer and we're done.
Thanks again for watching.