You can click all the way through the clone wizard to the activity summary page without actually running it, fyi.īasically, when you set up the clone, choose your current SSD as your source and then choose your new SSD as the destination. What I'm about to explain will probably make more sense when you actually have the new SSD attached and can tinker with the wizard. Also, since you're on Windows 10, you may want to relocate your Recovery partition since that will avoid Windows creating a new one in its preferred location later and leaving your current one there as dead weight afterward. Is there any reason to boot as an admin before doing the clone?Īctually if you intend to resize two different partitions after the clone, you'll want to do that as part of the Reflect operation, not afterward. When Reflect starts, it asks me for an admin pw and then runs normally. One final question that does involve Reflect: I normally boot as a User. Does this seem likely to get me up and running or am I missing some vital step?Īssuming the above works, I will then run disk manager to enlarge both C: and D: partitions, though that is not a Reflect question. Next I will remove the old drive from the laptop and replace it with the new drive containing the clone.įinally, I will reboot. Then run Reflect to clone my existing drive to the new drive. What I plan to do is attach the new drive via a USB cable. I also have (not inside the EFS tree) a file that is VeraCrypted. I have one folder tree on D: that is EFS encrypted. My current drive is formatted with C: and D: partitions, plus two very small ones called Recovery and System, as I see in Reflect. I've tentatively picked out a Samsung 850 EVO. I'd like to replace it with a 1 TB drive in the same form factor. My laptop came with a 500 gb SSD drive installed. I'd like some feedback on whether I understand the process correctly. Before posting, I have read a bunch of other threads. The Help function in my Reflect is not working at all so I can't check on how Clone works in general. Windows10 Pro 64 bit on Panasonic SX2 toughbook

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