
Important: The target disk for the clone operation will be overwritten.
A Warning box will appear, if it is appropriate click Continue. If you want to run the Clone at this point, select ‘Run this backup now’ and click OK. Verify the settings in Backup Save Options and if appropriate, click OK. Make any required changes and click Next. When you add a Schedule this window will appear with all the options: The options to Add Schedule, Edit Schedule or Delete Schedule is displayed. Resize the partition automatically by clicking Maximum size, Minimum size or Original size. Setting the partition size precisely using the Partition Size entry box. To modify the partition sizes, click Cloned Partition Properties and adjust the size of the partition by: You can modify the size of each partition to fit the new disk if required. Alternatively, drag the partitions you want to clone, the red arrow below shows this. If you do not want to modify the order or size of partitions of the clone, click Next. In this case, there is only one disk available. Select the hard disk you wish to clone to. In the wizard that opens Click Select a disk to clone to…. Select the disk you wish to clone in the main application window and Click ‘Clone this disk’. If you clone your system disk to a USB connected external drive then, to boot your clone, the physical disk must be removed from the USB caddy and attached to your Motherboard SATA port. This is a restriction imposed by Windows. Important: Windows cannot boot from a USB connected drive. You can clone to a hard drive installed in your computer or to a hard drive installed in a USB hard-drive Caddy. Cloning your hard drive creates a bootable new hard drive with the state of your computer at the time you undertook the clone.
With Macrium Reflect you can boot the target disk on the same system after cloning.
This is useful if you are upgrading to a larger hard drive. It is possible to clone an entire hard drive or specific partitions on a hard drive. But, we don’t need to do it manually we can use Macrium Reflect to migrate the entire Microsoft operating system (MOS) from the old PC to the new PC. We have apps, programs, files, and settings that we want to keep. We know that this job could be annoying, and losing information is not an option we want to consider. Everything goes perfectly until we want to have exactly the same data that was on the old PC. Product and Solution Information, Press Releases, Announcements Tuesday Tips: How to migrate your old PC to a new oneĮveryone knows how exciting it is to get a new computer and all the benefits this brings to our lives.