Blazzok
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So last week I bought myself a new Samsung 850 EVO 250GB on Carbonite for a good price (R1350). My current SSD (Solidata X8 240GB) would go to my wife.
I decided from the start I wasn't in the mood for reinstalling Windows first on my drive, then on my wife's, so I would clone the Windows installs. I hadn't done it before but I asked a friend what he would recommend: he suggested I use Clonezilla.
I'll try to make a very, very long story shorter.
So Saturday morning I started with cloning my current SSD to my new SSD (I had put Clonezilla on a bootable USB flash drive). Some things looked strange on first boot up, but I was none the wiser, so I went ahead. After about an hour I realized something didn't look right, so I googled a bit and indeed, it wasn't. So I stopped the process and tried again. This time it seemed to clone oky.
After the clone, I struggled to boot up with my now old SSD (I wanted to check something). Atleast the new SSD booted up fine without any problems, but I was disappointed that Clonezilla rendered my old SSD unbootable (no idea why, it isn't supposed to, but there it is). At this point I had been busy for about 4 hours and decided I would do my wifes one later.
Later that afternoon I decided to do my wife's clone (which would be even trickier, because her Windows install was on a 60GB partition of a 1TB drive and the SSD was 240GB, and I didn't want to partition the SSD). So I googled a bit this time before starting and saw that you could clone only a partition to another drive and keep the rest of the free space, you don't have to partition (if that makes sense).
After struggling a bit I got it going. After the clone, bam. Neither her old HDD partition nor the newly cloned SSD would boot up. I tried using Windows repair, unplugging the extra drive; nothing worked.
In the end I decided screw it and I just did a fresh Windows10 install on the SSD, then started copying the required files from the old 60GB partition. Luckily I put both our PC's to store our Documents on another drive and not the C drive, which helps A LOT in cases like these.
It probably took me another good 3 - 4 hours struggling with my wife's cloning and windows install. By this time I was dead tired. I had also been to work for 5 hours in the mean time, so I wasn't a happy camper.
TL;DR - don't use Clonezilla to clone a Windows install, it sucks and it kind-of user un-friendly. Just do a fresh Windows install you lazy git.
Also, if you guys have other software to suggest which you have used plenty of times and have had great success with, I'd love to know what you use.
I decided from the start I wasn't in the mood for reinstalling Windows first on my drive, then on my wife's, so I would clone the Windows installs. I hadn't done it before but I asked a friend what he would recommend: he suggested I use Clonezilla.
I'll try to make a very, very long story shorter.
So Saturday morning I started with cloning my current SSD to my new SSD (I had put Clonezilla on a bootable USB flash drive). Some things looked strange on first boot up, but I was none the wiser, so I went ahead. After about an hour I realized something didn't look right, so I googled a bit and indeed, it wasn't. So I stopped the process and tried again. This time it seemed to clone oky.
After the clone, I struggled to boot up with my now old SSD (I wanted to check something). Atleast the new SSD booted up fine without any problems, but I was disappointed that Clonezilla rendered my old SSD unbootable (no idea why, it isn't supposed to, but there it is). At this point I had been busy for about 4 hours and decided I would do my wifes one later.
Later that afternoon I decided to do my wife's clone (which would be even trickier, because her Windows install was on a 60GB partition of a 1TB drive and the SSD was 240GB, and I didn't want to partition the SSD). So I googled a bit this time before starting and saw that you could clone only a partition to another drive and keep the rest of the free space, you don't have to partition (if that makes sense).
After struggling a bit I got it going. After the clone, bam. Neither her old HDD partition nor the newly cloned SSD would boot up. I tried using Windows repair, unplugging the extra drive; nothing worked.
In the end I decided screw it and I just did a fresh Windows10 install on the SSD, then started copying the required files from the old 60GB partition. Luckily I put both our PC's to store our Documents on another drive and not the C drive, which helps A LOT in cases like these.
It probably took me another good 3 - 4 hours struggling with my wife's cloning and windows install. By this time I was dead tired. I had also been to work for 5 hours in the mean time, so I wasn't a happy camper.
TL;DR - don't use Clonezilla to clone a Windows install, it sucks and it kind-of user un-friendly. Just do a fresh Windows install you lazy git.
Also, if you guys have other software to suggest which you have used plenty of times and have had great success with, I'd love to know what you use.
