How to Clone your OS Drive - HDD to SSD & Vice-Versa

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How do I clone my OS Drive? This is a question I have been asked for a while, so I decided to do a tutorial. Also since trying Acronis True image software I was amazed at how simple and easy it was to clone your OS drive (or any drive for that matter to another drive). I hope you guys enjoy the tutorial. "Just make sure to back up your destination drive and to also make sure your destination drive is at least as large if not bigger than your original drive. Western Digital Acronis Clone Software download link (requires a western digital drive) - http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119 Or a free trial if you use another hard drive - http://www.acronis.com/en-us/enterprise/download/backup/microsoft-sql/ Other alternatives include: Marcrium - Very popular - http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx Another one - http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Check me out on other social media* https://twitter.com/techyescity https://www.facebook.com/techyescity *Donate to show appreciation and help keep TYC sponsor free! http://www.patreon.com/techyescity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro Music - Lensko - Circles (NCS Release)

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1. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO THANK YOU!!! You saved my Work PC!
2. is it ok if we have source hhd wd or it should be strictly the new one!!!
3. do you need both a wd hdd and a ssd?
4. Perhaps .. if you base it all on a single company like WESTERN DIGITAL - make that already known in title and description.
5. just use Veeam EndPoint
6. can you do a video of acronis cloning to a smaller HDD or SSD? A lot of folks want to go from large HDDs to smaller SSDs (simply because larger SSDs are so expensive- so they opt for smaller ones, or want to buy smaller ones, but aren't sure if they can cloen their larger disks to smaller ones)
7. doessssssnnnnt woooooooork!
8. Can I clear my HDD (Factory reset) and clone it to the SSD and use the the SSD as the boot drive with the OS and all because I can't install the OS fresh onto the SSD because I lost the disk and I do not want to spend money buy a new one?
9. can you transfer just an os (windows 10) on a 256 gb ssd from a 1 tb wd blue
10. I do the exact same thing and the inormation is cloned but I cannot boot from the cloned drive. Please help.
11. Trying to clone from 700GB HDD to 120GB SSD, uninstalled all games, steam ect... got it so there is less than 120GB on the HDD & its saying that i need another 20GB... Yet i cant think of anything to uninstall or remove..
12. What's the outro music?
13. thanks man
14. Looks like the links dont work anymore.
15. I do everything as normal but then when I click restart, my computer just boots up normally, and doesn't clone the drive.
16. So if I have a Samsung SSD and I get a New Samsung SSd can I Use this Software to take just my operating system to the new SSD?
17. I cloned my HDD over to SSD using Acronis. Now I want to revert back and using the same software however, it restarts the cloning process at the "Preparing" step and boots into windows and nothing has changed. Nothing is technically wrong with it I just realized I want my SSD to be storage after the fact. I'd like to do the exact opposite of what I did and it just restarts to windows. Any help is greatly appreciated.
18. ok i did all this and works a treat thankies
19. I'm not too familiar with this...After I clone my OS drive which drive will windows boot from?
    
    I have a laptop with a Wester Digital mechanical drive and a small m.2 ssd that contains the OS (which I would like to upgrade). Do I clone the m.2 drive to the mechanical disk, replace the m.2 drive, and then clone from the mechanical disk to the new m.2 ssd?
    
    Thanks in advance.
20. I just want to clone c drive to another disk c drive
    how will I do that ?