As technology improves so does the speed of our data for years we were stuck with clunky
old mechanical hard drives that would go up to 10,000 rpms for desktops typically with 7,200 rpms
but that equates to about 200 megabytes per second typically 133 megabytes per second but anyway then
years later we were blessed with SSD’s, SSD’s like this could transfer up to 700 megabytes per second
mind-blowing difference three times the performance of this in a smaller package
and much less heat and best of all we didn't have a bunch of spinning platters awesome data
right there when you needed it but from 600 to 700 megabytes per second we were blown away with m.2
SSD’s at what seven thousand megabytes per second a ton faster than SSD’s and a quadrillion times
faster than mechanical drives like this now the bad part is we'd have to transfer data from this
to this and that was so slow but then transferring data from this to this became much faster we can
always get away with it with big old clunky data cloners but they'd be stuck with a hard drive to
an SSD or you know whichever one of those two so in this video I’m going to show you how to clone
your data coming from an SSD mechanical drive to an M.2 so you can be so much faster and this is
going to work coming from a larger drive to a smaller drive from a smaller drive to a larger
drive pretty much anything as you want on top of everything this software is 100% free 100% free
but anyway let's get started and I’ll talk you through and walk you through the entire process
so to show you what we're working with we're going to go ahead and right click on the start
button and go to disk management so here we can see we have two drives both actually have windows
on them this is a two Terabyte Sabrent drive and this is my 500 gigabyte Western Digital Blue drive
closing this out we're going to open up a new tab or a new browser and go to Macrium
and then from the home page we're going to hover over products and then under personal we're going
to click on Reflect Free and we're going to scroll down a little bit past business use and backup at
home we'll click on download free under reflect 8 free then here I need a personal free license
then enter in your email so give me one second while I do that and then here you can choose
if you'd like to receive more information about Macrium or not you can select yes please or no
thank you I’ll leave it under yes please thank you for registering and after you enter in all that
information they'll send you an email with a link to download it and then we'll just click reflect
dlhf.exe then we can close out of the browser and then we'll go ahead and download the software you
could tell it where you want to download it but I’ll leave that right there where it is after it
downloads it starts opening up to the installer and we'll click next, next here make sure to read
through all the ula then click I accept and next, next with the personal information here personal
use and I agree to the following next then you enter in your information here from that email
and then click next and I’ll go ahead and just leave the defaults and click next and
install now I’ll click finish with launch now selected after we've started up Macrium we're
going to be presented with all the drives we have over here what we're going to do is again
we're going to copy over this 465 gig drive over to this 1.82 terabyte drive so now we're going to
go ahead click clone this disk will be brought to this menu right over here the source disk is
our Western Digital Blue drive which is a 500 gig 465.76 gig drive then destination is blank
because we need to click here to select a disk to clone and then if we had more we'd see them
but we only have this one disk and we'll click here now you'll notice the partitioning scheme
is the same well that's because I had tested the software prior to making the video but that's okay
but you will notice though they're all the same so now we have 1.36 terabytes of leftover disk
well we don't want that we want the c drive to be complete so we'll click copy partitions
shrink or extend to fill the target disk and then bam so while it's still keeping this 500 gig on
this drive it's seeing that hey I get that you're a two terabyte but I want to make the c drive that
much larger now of course you can always come in here and click layout and change that actually you
need to select your disk first and then click layout and then you only want to make it one
terabyte instead of two so you have the ability to here to change that blank disk into whatever size
you want and then afterwards you can make this an e drive an f drive but we'll keep it full size and
click OK and then we'll click next and then if you wanted to schedule this like you don't want to do
it right now you want to do it later on you could but we're just going to go ahead and click next
here this is just again summarizing everything you're doing just making sure what you're doing is
what you want and then we'll click finish here run this back up now save as an xml backup definition
file in case you want to rerun this several times later on so I’ll go ahead and click OK,
OK clone started and then warning this is going to be erased yep that's cool
all target volume data will be overwritten confirm to proceed and click continue
now depending on what drive you're copying the data from is going to determine how fast that
transfer takes place so if you're coming from a mechanical drive a 133 or 200 megabyte per second
drive that could take hours if not a day or two it could take an extremely long time now if you're
going from an SSD to an m.2 SSD you take a few minutes or a few seconds I’m just letting you know
to be prepared and don't go crazy that progress bar is not going to be as fast as you see it here
and if you wanted to after clone you can always come over here and set it to shut down, hibernate,
suspend or reboot for those hours long or days long sessions all right so this is complete the
drive popped up popped up over here as well and cloned in 8 minutes and 13 seconds again SSD
to SSD and we'll click OK here clone success close here and we'll go ahead and close here
coming over here this is going to look different in a second but you can see 500 gigs and then 1.8
Terabytes in order to change this you want this to be your c drive now and this to be your d drive
we'll right click on the start button shut down or shine out and restart okay and then we'll go into
the BIOS every BIOS is going to be different the process will be the same we'll click on boot and
then here we can see boot option number one is the Western Digital 500 gig drive prefaced by Windows
Boot Manager and then boot option number two windows boot manager the Sabrent Rocket prefaced
again by windows boot manager now don't freak out if you don't see Windows Boot Manager that
just means you're not utilizing UEFI if not it'll still work the same but now you're not going to be
looking for who's going to be the primary windows boot manager you're just looking for which one's
going to be the primary drive so then here we'll just click boot option number one and then we'll
click windows boot manager Sabrent Rocket so now we'll just click F10 and yes to save and exit
now that we're back in windows we'll go into file explorer this pc and we'll see both of our
wait what happened we're suppose no I’m just kidding so we see our 1.8 terabyte drive perfect
we see the entire capacity 1.7 of that is free so now to get back the other drive we'll right click
on the start button and go to disk management and then here we'll see this 0 which is the 500 gig
drive and disk C which is the 1.8 terabyte drive so if we want to bring that drive back I’m just
going to go ahead and maximize this we right click on the 465 basic data partition and we
select change of drive letter and paths then we choose add assign the following drive letter d or
we'll do q just because to make it a little bit different we'll click OK then we can close here
and now you'll see both drives one thing is both of these drives are a hundred percent
the same whatever's on here is on here of course until you write something to where we're working
on right now then you'll have more data on the c drive than you will on the q drive once you know
everything is good you can either take this disk out store it somewhere for safe backup
or you can just go ahead delete the partition and use it as 465 gigs of game storage video storage
audio storage whatever you'd like to use it for that's 100 up to you I’m going to show you now,
how to delete your old partition that you're no longer using in favor of your new partition that
has all the same data as your old drive did so now if you want to reuse this drive as a d
drive or whatever you can 100 wipe it instead of leaving all those partitions that windows leaves
on it so let me show you this real quick again warning you're going to lose all the data on
your D drive or your Q drive whatever you named or whatever drive letter you gave it what I’m going
to teach you now will erase it if you don't want to erase it skip this chapter in order to erase a
disk we'll click on the start button and type in CMD then we'll right click on the command prompt
and choose run as administrator then here we're going to go ahead and type disk part then we type
in list disk so then here we can see Disk 0 online 460 gigs that is our previous operating system and
then disc one the 1.8 terabyte drive our current operating system so here we're going to select
disk zero so now disk zero is selected so just to show you come over here into this PC C drive
and D drive okay they're identical so now here we're just going to type in clean takes a few
seconds you noticed it disappeared if we would have just gone in here and done a Disk Management
we would have only been able to delete the C drive we would have been left with 604 and 100 almost
a gig of wasted space so now opening up this management we see the initialized disk and this
zero we'll leave it GPT and then we see 465.76 gigs of unallocated space so we click OK here
now this disk is online still unallocated so we right click on it new simple volume
next select whatever size you'd like here next give it whatever disk name you would like we'll do
X then we'll do next and this is the 500 gig and then we'll leave the rest default perform
a quick format finish this only take a few seconds there we go now we have the X drive 465
gigs we have our cloned over 1.8 terabyte that was originally 500 gigs now the 500 gigs is completely
empty and we can install games applications whatever we want right here all right so let's
complicate things a little bit so we'll close out of these windows here we'll go back into Macrium
Reflect now we copied from the smaller drive to the larger drive so what we're going to do here
is this time instead of letting this be at the top we're going to select the bottom drive this is the
1.8 terabyte drive we're going to go ahead and click clone this disk on the bottom one so now
we see the 1.8 up here and then we're going to go ahead click select like this to clone we're going
to select this one now it looks kind of weird that it's not going to fit properly but we just click
either copy partition or erase this but I’ll do copy partitions here I’ll click shrink or
extend to fill the target disk and then you see they're the same again just like we did before
113.99 gigs same right up here but the capacity of the drive you can see here it's 1.82 terabytes
and here is 465. So we can see how everything puts itself all in the correct space all of
these become the same size these as well these look the same but you could see the difference
so then we'll go ahead and click next, next finish we can uncheck this or leave a check
doesn't matter and run this back up now okay all targets okay and this will take a second
So clone completed the other way around and nine minutes and 35 seconds so go ahead and
close that out here close everything here then we can see everything here 465. so now if we
wanted to just come here restart then smash that delete key to enter the bias or whatever it is on
your system to enter the BIOS and then once in the BIOS we'll go back into boot then we'll go
ahead and switch it to the WDC and go ahead F10 to save and exit and when we are back in the OS
come over here we'll see the same thing D drive is gone oh no so we'll come over here Disk Management
and then we'll just give the D disk its title or the let's name this one a W disk
and there we go C drive is back to being the 500 gig
w drive is the two terabyte macro reflect eight is completely free and as you saw does
a ton of stuff and it does it well we'll copy from a mechanical drive to an SSD to an M.2 SSD
and all the way through and back you can go from a two terabyte to a 500 gig or from a 500 gig to a
two terabyte mind you the two Terabyte can't be filled to two terabytes that's not going to fit
but it can be filled with 300 gigs and will fit perfectly fine onto a smaller drive so again
this is 100 percent free now Macrium does have paid versions as well that does a lot more than
just cloning and then they have other pieces of software one of which allows you to turn
a computer you have running today that maybe is dying or something along those lines you
can make a virtual machine out of that machine and then you can run it on your own machine that way
saving your favorite machine and all the software you have on there that is pretty sweet now the
main reason I made this aside from wanting to find a video that worked for you for backing up was
I made one previously for AOMEI for their backer upper software which was completely free you saw
me download it run it all the way through no key completely free then they started charging for it
I come to find they've done this to a lot of other reviewers as well the thing is I never contacted
them they never contacted me so much later after I made that video and once they saw a bunch of
traffic coming in they started making it paid so that made me look real bad so I wanted to make
this in favor of that video but again Macrium Reflect 8, sweet and free so let me know
what you think down in the comments below did you love it did you hate it did you find the software
incredibly useful and now you're going to use it as well if you feel like this video has helped you
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