I decided to upgrade from a Crucial 128 GB m4 SSD (from about 2012) to a 256GB m550 (they were on sale last week), and wanted to clone my current installation (Win7 SP1 Pro) to the new drive using ...

If you don’t have a Samsung SSD, then you won’t be able to use the Samsung Migration software — luckily, there’s some generic software that you can use to clone your hard drive over to an SSD.

This again reads like self promotion. Most users here are well aware of how to use the clone/migration tools included in most SSD drives you buy retail. It comes in the instructions with many ...

Check this guide and learn how to effectively clone your HDD onto a new SSD. Enjoy the fast bootups and quick launch apps from the SSD.

I recently switched my OS drive to a new, larger SSD so that I would stop running out of space every time a Windows 11 update came around. I had to weigh up the benefits of doing a fresh install ...

I clone my boot drive fairly regularly. I'm often building a PC for the PC Gamer Magazine or testing a new system for review, and my options are clone my existing test bench drive with all the ...

Create a bootable rescue media The bootable disk (USB/CD/DVD) contains a cloned copy of the entire system drive, including OS, bootable sectors, settings, etc.

You've told me there's software that can handle the data transfer, and you've told me that several SSD manufacturers have already released solutions to clone a Windows 10 boot drive.

Felix Luke needs to back up his entire hard drive. He asked me to explain the differences between cloning and imaging.

There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).