Clone a windows 8 hard drive

[Danny133]

Do I clone the D recovery drive also?

If so do I have to partition the destination drive to allow for 2 clones? One of each drive?

 

[Badgerman85]

Depends what you're using to clone it! Some software will give you options to clone the entire drive or individual partitions! If you're just doing a straightforward clone it should create the partitions for you!

 

[Danny133]

Can you recommend some software?

My laptop drive is 1tb but only 58gb is used

The recovery is 20gb

My drive which is to be the 'new' drive is 250gb yet it tells me it's too small to use if I select them both :S

 

[realnumber 1]

I use Acronis True Image. You can get a 30 day trial here.

http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomput...&matchtype=e&gclid=CKiKpdGbirkCFTMQtAodZRkAyQ

 

[Danny133]

Tried that but the bloody trial doesn't let you clone drives

 

[Danny133]

Also any idea why it want to clone my empty space from the 1tb drive?

It says I can only clone to a drive the same size or bigger despite the fact I only need 100gb ish

 

[Badgerman85]

Norton ghost is always good, it will resize on the fly too, im just guessing here but are you migrating from your 1tb to a 250gb SSD? I did this last week and to be honest it was b****cks and wasnt worth the faff, runs much better off a fresh install.

 

[Danny133]

How do I fresh install an ssd?

 

[Danny133]

Laptop comes with no discs etc ..

 

[Badgerman85]

You'll have to download an ISO of whichever version of windows 8 your laptop has and create a bootable CD/USB, Rufus is a great tool for creating bootable USB drives, microsofts own USB tool is a joke!