#Cloning hard drive to ssd windows 10 software#
#Cloning hard drive to ssd windows 10 download#

Note: Acronis True Image for Crucial is just an example, and it only works if it detects a Crucial SSD, so don't waste time on it if you don't have one. I've just used this successfully on a new Crucial SSD: You mention it's a Crucial SSD things may have changed since the question was asked, but today Cricual SSDs come with free Acronis True Image for Crucial, which can clone the current partition as I've described. The reason this is possible is that after prompting you for all the info about what cloning you want, they reboot to a special environment and perform the cloning there instead of under Windows. Some of them provide a specific function to clone the partition on which the operating system is currently running.

#Cloning hard drive to ssd windows 10 software#

It depends what cloning software you use. Now shut down your PC, remove your old SSD, and boot up from your new SSD.

This will expand your partition to fill the new SSD. You can then follow the on-screen wizard, leaving all of the options at the default values. Right-click the data partition and select extend volume. You should see your new SSD, with an empty section to the right of the data partition. Open the start menu, then search for and open 'Disk Management'. Once the transfer is complete, you will need to expand the data partition on the new drive to make use of the extra space. Then select the new drive (it should be the one that's not in your list of existing drives) and click VHD to Disk. Make a note of the existing drives in the 'Target drive' section, then plug in your new SSD. You should see your boot sector and main NTFS partition in the 'Volumes to include' section. Load up VHD2Disk and select your VHD Image in the 'VHD File name' section.

#Cloning hard drive to ssd windows 10 download#

Once the image is complete, download VHD2Disk from the Sysinternals forums. Do not use your computer during this time, as changes and documents may be lost if they are stored on the SSD. Press 'Create' and let the image complete. Then select your C: drive (assuming this is the SSD) from the 'Volumes to include' section and your destination (this would be somewhere on your 1TB HDD) in the 'VHD File name' section.

This will resolved the issue mentioned by Techie007. Start up Disk2VHD and ensure the 'Use Vhdx' box is not checked, and that the 'Use Volume Shadow Copy' box is checked. Assuming you're running a Microsoft Windows OS, this can be achived with the use of disk2vhd and vhd2disk.įirst download a copy of Disk2VHD from the Microsoft Sysinternals website.