Any way to clone OS from GPT hard drive to SSD?
I picked up DD12 at Fry's on sale because the box said I could clone my current C drive and not have to reinstall windows. After I installed a SSD and ran DD12 it says cloning only works with MBR drives. But my current C drive is GPT.(and 4k)
Shouldn't the box have given a warning or notification? Then looking around this site it seems True Image can clone a GPT drive. Is that true? It would seem pretty silly if that were the case. Why wouldn't that capability be in DD12?
I'm far from being an expert on these things but I'm not a novice either. Usually I check out the specs online before I buy, but this was an impulse purchase because it was on sale and bragged on the box it would do just what I needed it to do.
So, is there an easy way to get Win 10 and my programs currently on my c drive to the SSD and make it my boot drive?
BPJ


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Thanks for the reply. It turns out it was really easy to with the free version of EaseUS Todo Backup 10.
I guess what got me riled was that Acronis claimed on the box the software would do something then after installation, casually informing me "No, only under certain circumstances".
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Vorrei sapere se su crucial MX300 può essere installato il sistema operativo senza clonazione del disco c.
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mazmaier wrote:Vorrei sapere se su crucial MX300 può essere installato il sistema operativo senza clonazione del disco c.
I would like to know if on crucial MX300 can be installed the operating system without cloning the c drive
Sure, you can use your Windows installer disc (and install the OS brand new) to any new disk in the same computer. However, if you are asking if you can just move the OS and nothing else, no that is not possible. Acronis is a either a disk, parition or file/folder backup program. It does not deal with transferring just the OS, or jus a user profile, or just applications as there are references all over the disk and the registry that are not taken into account. If you want to transfer the installed OS, then you must do a full disk or parition backup and restore, or a full disk clone. Otherwise, you should instal Windows "fresh", reinstall all of your applications, settings and user profiles and then manually transfer your data over or restore that from a file/folder backup.
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