

The free version of Reflect can perform this type of clone operation as well, minus the ability to use Rapid Delta Clone, but that doesn't work in partition shrink scenarios anyway. Think about that, something that I got for free works and does what it's suppose to and a software application I paid over $100 to purchase doesn't have the same capability. I'm currently using a free cloning application to install my new SSD. It works great for imaging but it's about as intuitive as a bag of rocks when using the cloning function. Stop trying to make things unnecessarily complicated and fix your software. Especially when I paid for the 4 pack of this software. If I clicked on "Minimum size" it showed 43GB partition size and the rest unformated raw space. However it didn't do this, It showed less than a few MB used. I clicked maximum size and what it should have done is show an almost 500GB partition with 43 GB used. There were around 43 GB used on the 1 TB drive and I was going to a new 500 GB SSD. I tried clicking on "Maximum size" and it just didn't work correctly. Most cloning software will adjust the partitions automatically and "sense" that you are cloning from a larger drive to a smaller one. Everything goes perfectly until we want to have exactly the same data that was on the old PC.Įven upgrading from an HDD to an SSD can bring a massive (and exciting) increase of performance for most PCs.Įveryone knows how exciting it is to get a new computer and all the benefits this brings to our lives.I tried cloning from a larger disk to a smaller SSD today with Macrium. We know that this job could be annoying, and losing information is not an option we want to consider. We have apps, programs, files, and settings that we want to keep. 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. It is possible to clone an entire hard drive or specific partitions on a hard drive. This is useful if you are upgrading to a larger hard drive. With Macrium Reflect you can boot the target disk on the same system 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. You can clone to a hard drive installed in your computer or to a hard drive installed in a USB hard-drive Caddy.
