Clone win10 from HDD to SDD (MBR/GPT)

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Hi TH, my google skills seems to have reached it's limit. I hope you could help :)

I want to clone my HDD to a SSD, such that the SSD is the boot drive.

The SSD (Crucial300mx 525gb) is brand new and not formattet yet. I run windows 10. My rig is from 2010.

I would be glad if anyone could give some input as to:

> Can i clone the drive, and expect win10 to work?
> Should i choose MBR or GPT when initialising the SSD?
> I got some Acronis software with my Crucial dish. Is that ok?

- Torben
 
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1. First of all, there's plenty of good, solid information on the net dealing with "cloning the contents of one drive to another drive". And you can access that info through a simple Google search. So do some basic research on the subject and then come back here with any questions you might have.

2. Asking a question like "can I clone the drive and expect the Win 10 OS to work?" is impossible for anyone to respond intelligently to such a question without obtaining much more detailed information re your system & objectives.

3. Ditto for your question re "MBR or GPT partitioning?" Again, do some basic Google research on the subject.
Just keep in mind one thing at the outset - a clone is a clone is a clone. So it's the drive that you...
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1. First of all, there's plenty of good, solid information on the net dealing with "cloning the contents of one drive to another drive". And you can access that info through a simple Google search. So do some basic research on the subject and then come back here with any questions you might have.

2. Asking a question like "can I clone the drive and expect the Win 10 OS to work?" is impossible for anyone to respond intelligently to such a question without obtaining much more detailed information re your system & objectives.

3. Ditto for your question re "MBR or GPT partitioning?" Again, do some basic Google research on the subject.
Just keep in mind one thing at the outset - a clone is a clone is a clone. So it's the drive that you clone (the source drive) that determines the partitioning scheme on the destination drive, i.e., the recipient of the clone - in your case the Crucial SSD. It doesn't matter what partitioning scheme you've chosen for your destination (SSD) drive. Whatever is the partitioning scheme that resides on the source disk will be the partitioning scheme on the destination drive, i.e., the recipient of the clone. Capiche?

4. Acronis can do the job as long as the user uses it properly.
 
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Torben_1

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Hi ArtPog,

Thank you for the feedback.

Actually i did some research, but it only made me more unsure of the process. I saw a lot of answers around the web stating that WIN10 "demands" a GPT partitioning. And since my system is a bit old, i am unsure if my motherboard even support it. Further, can i clone from a MBR to a GPT. I did not find any good guide to these specific questions.

Granted, should have explained in details what i was unsure off.

Thanks again for the reply (especially 3.) . I'll give the cloning a go, and hope the best.

-Torben
 
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1. I suppose it's reasonable to assume that your present boot drive is not larger than a 2 TB drive. If that is the case the disk would (presumably) be, of course, MBR-partitioned and that's fine insofar as cloning the contents of that drive (presumably containing a Win 10 OS) to your new SSD.

2. There's certainly no requirement that a boot drive containing the Win 10 OS be GPT-partitioned. Of course should the drive be > 2 TB consideration would need to be given to partitioning the drive with the GPT scheme.

3. It's been some time since I used the Acronis True Image program since it wasn't one of my favorite disk-cloning programs for a variety of reasons. But I haven't used it in recent years so I'm not really familiar with its current version. Many users, of course, seem to find it quite acceptable and it has a large user base. I'm aware that a version of the Acronis program is frequently packaged with a new SSD by some manufacturers. Perhaps that's the version you plan to use.

4. Just a tip or two...
a. Undertake the disk-cloning program with ONLY the source & destination drives connected in the system (ditto in case one or more other drives are normally installed).

b. IMMEDIATELY following the disk-cloning operation, disconnect your source drive from the system and initially boot to the newly-cloned SSD as the SOLE drive connected in the system.

c. After you've determined that all is well, i.e., the SSD boots without incident and functions without problems you can then connect the original source disk (and any other secondary drives).

d. While not mandatory, it's good practice to connect your boot drive to the motherboard's first SATA data port (connector) - usuallly designated SATA 0 or SATA 1.

e. And do check the BIOS upon bootup to confirm the SSD is first in boot priority order.
 
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