Clone HDD to SSD in realtime
Hi, I plan to acquire a license to retire my metal brick (hard drive), I buy an M.2 SSD of the same capacity 1TB and I do not want to have to reinstall everything from scratch.
What I want to do is the following:
1- Install the new SSD in motherboard and verify that my OS detects it without partition.
2- Clone the entire disk from the HDD to the SSD.
3- Restart the OS from the SSD.
Is it possible to do this?
My cordial greetings.


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Sorry, I may have jumped the gun thinking you are changing motherboads \ computers above.
If this is all on the same system, it should be pretty easy. Will your new drive be SSD or PCIE NVME though?
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Skylar,
I would recommend that you first install the True Image app on your computer. Once installed create Recovery Media using the Media Builder found in the Tools tab in the app. Go for the Simple version and create the default WinRE media.
With that media boot your computer and create a full disk image backup of your existing drive and store that image on another drive such as an external USB HDD.
After you have the backup image created remove your existing drive from the PC and install the new one. Use the Recovery Media to boot the PC again and restore the backup image to the new drive. After the restore has completed shutdown the PC and remove the Recovery Media from the PC and then start the PC. It should boot to the new drive.
If you are using Win 7 and have not patched it for NVMe support you will need to do that prior to the instructions above.
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