hi and welcome back to this fight for you so a lot of you have been asking me hey iggy
how do i move my windows from one drive to another driver how do i clone one drive to another drive
so you're trying to get rid of your old clunky slow mechanical drive move over to an ssd
or an m.2 ssd or from an ssd over to an m.2 ssd or any which way even from one of these guys to
another one of these guys so don't worry i've got the perfect solution for you in this video
what makes it even better it's totally free so a while ago i made a video on cloning using a
cloner but it's going to cost you like 20 bucks and also it doesn't always work right if you're
going from a larger drive to a smaller drive it won't work at all if you're going from a smaller
drive to a larger drive that will work and it only works with these two it doesn't work with an m.2
again i got you covered so come over here real quick let's get started and please make sure to
watch to the very end if you miss a step you could potentially lose all your data and while you're at
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keep bringing you videos like this and bigger and better videos but anyway let's get started
so the very first thing you're going to want to do is turn off your computer so that you can install
your ssd or your m.2 ssd alright so with your machine off we're going to go ahead and grab
the sata that power cable just plug this guy in and the sata data cable now the power cable
comes with a power supply and the data cable comes with the motherboard or you can buy it separately
i'll have links to everything in the description below so now with the ssd installed we're just
going to go ahead turn on the computer and go into the bios real quick okay now in the bios
we'll just go over to boot and we want to verify that the m.2 drive that we have in there already
or whatever drive we have it in there already is already set up as the windows boot manager
and we don't have that other drive trying to take that spot so now that we're verified just go ahead
save and exit okay so once we're in windows the first thing you're going to want to do
if this is a brand new drive is right click on the start button go to disk management
find your brand new disk you'll know which one it is because it says
unallocated then if it says offline here just right click on here and click online
okay so then after you bring it online you right click over here new simple volume next whatever
capacity you want to it to have or lower if you want to partition it but for now we'll use the
entire drive next assign it the drive letter d it doesn't matter at this point new volume
smaller drives take less time this will take five seconds maybe 10.
okay so now we'll go ahead and close out of here so now we're going to go ahead and open
up a browser and we'll go to aomitek.com don't worry i have the link and everything down below
then we'll go to download and then here we'll just download this i've already installed it don't
worry this is not a sponsored video this is free for the clone purposes that we want to use it for
there is paid versions and tiers but for cloning this will work just fine if you like the software
of course go ahead and buy it but this will work for free okay so i've already downloaded
and installed it so i'll just close out of here and we'll come back to that in a second and then
after we've done activating the partition and downloading and installing it we'll go ahead and
open up almi backup or standard i didn't name the software so then we'll go over here click clone
and then we'll have two options but we want to focus on this clone here okay
so here we'll click on the source disk which is a 1.82 terabyte drive
and click next and then we'll select the source disk which is only a 500 gig drive so
gigs now if we come over here to file explorer and click on this pc you'll notice that even though
this is a two terabyte drive if we right click on it and go to properties there's only 372 gigs
used on it which would fit perfectly fine in this drive it makes sense that you can only put
let's say 464 gigs on this drive that'll allow you to put 465 gigs because you can fit all that it
doesn't need to shrink it it just fits now if you had a 600 gig or a 2 terabyte drive with 600 gigs
on it you can't move that over so if you want to make this work you're going to have to delete some
files okay so we can close out of here and now that we've selected the destination disk the blank
disk will click next this is just letting you know hey this is going to go ahead and wipe anything on
that destination but it's a blank disk so click ok and just reiterating what's going to happen
this 1.82 terabyte drive is going to clone into this 465 gig drive if it doesn't fit
it'll tell you here and click start clone now depending on how much data you have on the drive
is going to depend how long this process will take if you only have 50 gigs it'll take under
2 minutes a 300 whatever gig drive into that it's going to take about 10 minutes or so
don't worry i'll fast forward all right now that all this pops up we know that everything works
so if we come into this pc now you can see that they're going to have the same amount of data
right click on the d drive 312 gigs right click on the c drive properties 372 gigs
that is probably going to be due to the virtual paging memory file but we're good so we'll go
ahead and close this congratulations the clone task has been completed successfully okay so now
make sure to click finish here and then we can close it so then we'll go ahead back into file
manager and just notice that the c drive is that two terabyte drive and the d drive
is that 500 gig drive so now what we're going to go ahead and do is go ahead and restart and put
that 500 gig as the main drive okay so now back in the bios we'll go back over to boot
and under option number one we'll see we're still on the sovereign drive but we'll go ahead
and switch over to the sata ssd press enter there f10 to save and exit and okay okay so
now that we're back in windows we'll go into file explorer this pc and you'll notice now the 500 gig
has the c drive and the d drive is the two terabyte drive so easy enough right i've shown
you how to clone a larger drive into a smaller drive but it's not as easy cloning a smaller drive
into a larger drive i mean literally it is as easy but there's a few more steps and i'm gonna show
you how right now okay so closing out of here open up your browser again and this time we're going to
go ahead and download also from aomi the aomi partition assistant i'll go ahead and put that
link down in the description below i've already downloaded it and installed it so opening it up so
now what i'm going to go ahead and do because i'm so certain everything worked fine i'm just going
to select that 2 terabyte partition right here you'll see that 1.82 terabyte just make sure you
have the right drive right click on that and click delete all partitions select delete all partitions
and click ok so now if we close here we'll select yes and proceed yes i want to start
congratulations all operations have been completed successfully
okay so if we come back into file explorer this pc
now we'll see hey wait a minute the other drive is gone that's okay right click on your start button
disk management and you'll notice it right over here shows online so we don't need to
right click and click online we'll just right click on the unallocated space
new simple volume next and we'll just go through all this real quick since we've already done it
this is a faster drive so it takes less time and we'll close out of here now we'll see our new
old empty drive okay so now we'll just close out of there come back into aomi backupper
then we go under clone like we did before this clone select the source disk which is now the 500
gig click next and destination disk and then we click next as well warning all that stuff
okay this is just reiterating what's gonna happen removing that 500 gig we're copying it this zero
into the two terabyte drive disk one start clone now the beginning process is super simple you
basically don't have to click on it or think about it sorry but you're going to see what happens when
we boot back into windows now on the larger drive that just got the smaller drive copied into it
all right and just like we did before click on this pc and then you'll see that now this
can be a little scary you'll notice whichever the two terabyte drive is it's now a 500 gig drive and
don't worry i'm going to show you how to get past that so we'll close out of here important click
finish okay and then we can close out of here so if we come back over here into this management
you'll notice that the disc 0 97 megs for the uefi bootloader the boot manager this is all your data
and 970 megs for the recovery partition now coming to disc one we'll see the same 97 megs for the efi
boot manager the same 464 gigs for data 970 megs for the recovery partition but then we have 100
or 1.397.26 unallocated space now you don't want to do that because that'll make a drive e
so what you want to do is like i showed you before and actually let's go ahead
and do that in the live environment so let's go ahead reboot back into the bios
okay and when we're in the bios we'll go over to boot
and it looks like it took the sovereign again remember we originally selected this guy
so we just copied it back to the sovereign
f10 to save and exit okay so now that we're back in windows right click on the start button
disk management and i just want to verify that the c drive yep is the two terabyte drive again
we'll notice the 500 gig went to the d drive so to fix this issue that they're both 500 gigs now
we'll open the partition assistant okay and then we'll scroll down let's resize this a little bit
so down here here we can see everything so we'll right click on that 500 gig partition
from the two terabyte drive right click on that we'll do merge partitions
okay then you don't want to select any of these i don't think you can no you can't
okay so we'll have the c drive already selected because that's the one we want
to merge out or expand from and then we'll click the unallocated side click ok
then click apply up here
this is just letting you know what it's going to do and it will require a reboot proceed
restart into windows pe mode pre-installation environment mode okay
okay then we're gonna see a screen like this pop up it's going to be doing its work on the
back end there is no interaction you need to provide this takes about 30 seconds if that
all right so that was quick all operations have been finished successfully now we click restart
now your computer will automatically restart in 20 seconds now restart now
will take a little bit longer than usual don't manually restart it it'll do its own thing
okay so now that we're back in windows yet again open up explorer file explorer this pc
and now you can breathe easy you have your two terabyte drive back
and then since this this is a clone of this we can just go back into aomi partition assistant
select that 500 gig drive
delete partition delete partial partition quickly unallocated and then yes we forgot to apply again
now this will take you back into windows pe mode
then come back over here this pc oh no it's missing like we did before
right click on the start map start button disk management
and it looks like it left a little behind so what we're going to need to do
in this one that unfortunately will take a while
okay so then we'll right click again on this guy then we'll do a delete all partitions
delete all partitions or delete all partitions wipe all data on drive
fill sectors with zero safe and quick we can select the rest but they do require pro licenses
so we'll keep this one click ok then click apply up here yes and yes
then you can see down here where it's starting to wipe out all the data
over here now mind you there is different ways to do it especially in disk part
but this part is very risky especially if you don't know what you're doing
all right so while that's doing its thing there are other ways to clear that partition
quicker ways to do it but i just wanted to show you how to do it from all from within the tool
it does a great job the clearing part does take a little while i don't want you to sit through that
but it does everything else pretty quick so i've covered how to go from a larger capacity disc to
a smaller capacity disc and then also how to go from a smaller capacity disk to a larger capacity
disk and then free up all that space so that you don't have 500 gigs on your two terabyte
drive and you can't access the rest that's ridiculous so hopefully i've helped you guys
if you're still stuck on a mechanical drive move over quick to an m.2 and if your motherboard
doesn't support m.2 get a regular sata ssd the performance difference is amazing alone
starting into windows it'll take anywhere from four seconds to 12 seconds but regardless of that
um or should i say it'll take from 12 or 30 seconds down to 4 or 12 seconds but anyway aside
from all that i really do hope this video has helped you if it's helped you make sure again to
like and subscribe share the video out with your friends help them help you know as well because
you know we've been in your shoes i've been in those shoes that i didn't know what i was doing so
i wanted to share that knowledge with you guys but let me know what you think down
in the comments below everything i've gone over hardware wise is down in the description as well
and as well as my system specs if you guys were interested again any questions leave
them down in the comments below iggy with this bites for you up see you
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