It is possible to clone an entire hard drive or specific partitions on a hard drive to a new one. This is particularly useful if you are upgrading to a larger hard drive is being upgraded to a larger size for example. Macrium Reflect manages the hard drive IDs such that the target disk will be bootable . With Macrium Reflect you can boot the target disk on the same system once the cloning process has been completed.
Cloning your Hard Drive to another Hard Drive will give you after cloning. Cloning your hard drive creates a bootable new hard drive with the state of your computer at the time you undertook the clone. As an alternative to cloning, you could Image your hard drive, saving the Image file to another Hard drive. The benefit of an Image over a clone is that an Image file can be scheduled daily, weekly or monthly at a day and time you choose. You can restore an Image file to the original or a new hard drive or even to a new replacement computer (the latter may need the Professional or Server editions of Macrium Reflect to make the new hard drive bootable with new hardware by using ReDeploy; a cloned hard drive installed with new hardware may also need these editions of Macrium Reflect for ReDeploy). Clone a disk
In order to clone a disk, you must ensure that your system has the target/destination disk installed on the system. It is possible to delete and reconfigure any existing partitions or configure new partitions within Macrium Reflect, so there is no You can clone to a hard drive installed in your computer or to a hard drive installed in a USB hard-drive Caddy.
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Deleting and re-configuring existing partitions or configuring new partitions is possible with Macrium Reflect, so you don't need to do this prior to the cloning process. However, in this tutorial, it is assumed that the new disk contains no partitions.
As well as cloning to a hard drive installed in your computer you can also clone your hard drive to a hard drive installed in a ?USB hard-drive Caddy? using this as the Target/Destination. To boot your computer with the hard-drive from the Caddy, the hard-drive will need to be installed into your computer such as by using SATA.
There are some links at bottom of tutorial for further help with Cloning or Imaging.
1. Click on the disk you wish to clone. In this case MBR Disk 1[0F0452A1] and click 'Clone this disk' as shown in red below.
2. The clone disk wizard dialogue should pop up. In the destination section click the '.
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Select the disk you wish to clone in the main application window and Click 'Clone this disk'..
- In the wizard that opens Click Select a disk to clone to...
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Select the hard disk you wish to clone to. In this case, there is only one disk available
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If you do not want to modify the order or size of partitions of the clone, click Next. This is the default behavior.
Alternatively, drag the partitions you want to clone, the red arrow below shows this.
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In this example, there is 400MB of free space after the copied partition. You can modify the size of each partition to fit the new disk if required.
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Info You can delete partitions on the target disk by selecting and clicking 'Delete existing partitions'.. To modify the partition sizes,
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click Cloned Partition Properties and adjust the size of the partition
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- Setting the partition size precisely using
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- Size entry box.
- Resize the partition automatically by clicking Maximum size, Minimum size or Original size.
- Click OK.
- If required, click Advanced Options to change settings for this clone:
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The options to Add Schedule, Edit Schedule or Delete Schedule is displayed.
Click 'Add Schedule' to optionally schedule your clone
Make any required changes and click Next.
For more information see Scheduling backups.- Review the settings and click Finish.
Verify the settings in Backup Save Options and if appropriate, click OK.
Info Note: Saving a backup definition enables you to run your Clone at any time with a single click Info Note: You must save your backup definition if you have created Clone schedules. Your schedules cannot run if this step is missed. If you want to run the Clone at this point, select 'Run this backup now' and click OK.
A Warning box appears, if appropriate click Continue.
Info title Important The target disk for the clone operation will be overwritten. This is unrecoverable, so please ensure that the target disk contains no valid data.
The clone operation now starts.
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If you receive the error message 'Incompatible Disk Selected' when cloning then please see this article for more information: .Incompatible Disk Selected v6.0 |
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Creating a clone video
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