In order for EaseUs Disk Copy to work, the new hard drive must already be installed (external USB or Firewire drives are not supported) and configured as a Secondary Master - this may require you to change Bios settings. The program runs from a boot floppy and includes a wizard that will create the floppy disk for you. This is useful when you are upgrading or replacing your hard drive as it eliminates the need to reinstall Windows and all your programs. It is a risky thing, but if you have everything important backed up (which you should have anyway because cloning is not without its risks either) it is a possibility.EaseUs Disk Copy enables you to create an exact copy/clone of your internal hard drive, by copying the data from one drive to the other, including all operating system settings, programs, data etc. For example, my windows 10 C: has 70GB on it, but windows will only let me shrink it to 188GB.Īs said, there is the option of booting up from a linux live environment and use a program called gparted to shrink the C: to whatever you want, BUT it is not advised as it can screw with your files on the C: partition and maybe make it unbootable. Mind you, windows will want a lot of extra head room on its partition. May I ask, how much stuff do you have on the C: drive? You can try moving stuff to an external drive and see if windows will let you shrink the partition a bit more. The partition on the SSD is smaller than the C: on your mechanical drive. If this is still true that is the problem as said. The lowest it will allow me to shrink the C: partition is 471gb, and continues to not allow me to clone it. So the available space on the SSD is 465gb. I've watched guide upon guide of people just throwing their drive right in and hit a few buttons and it's done. And there's only about 100gb on my mechanical. Continue to get the error message something to the effect of 'Destination disk is too small.' But.it isn't. Okay, sure.īut then I go to the clone option.

After some searching I was told I needed to add a volume to it? Not entirely sure what that means but I did that in disk management. Issues began.įirst, Windows didn't recognize the SSD. Now I've read time and again how simple it is to just clone the drive over and format the old one for a storage drive. I'll preface this by saying I've never cloned a drive.

My mechanical drive is going out so I want to clone this drive to my new one. So just picked up a Samsumg 850 evo 500gb.

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