Last time I tried cloning a drive it failed miserably and I was stuck doing everything manually and took forever
CloneZilla has worked well for me in the past
This
Is it free?
Why don’t you Google that?
I’d rather AskLemmy
Samsung Data Migration if you’re using a Samsung drive.
Clonezilla. If you don’t know how to use it, it’s a good time To learn 👍
I bought a cloner. It’s not free, but it has paid it’s investment many times when I’ve had to copy a whole drive that’s close to being dead or basically wanting to up size my SSD/HDD without losing anything.
This is the one I got: https://a.co/d/0R57miy
I own one of these, is there a chance this can fuck up?
Macrium reflect free addition.
Tried that, didn’t work. It fucked up my data
Try using a specialized software like rsync (on Linux, idk if it is available on windows too)
I’m on windows
Robocopy
It’s built into windows and very handy
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy
I used Aomei partition assistant a lot to do this, it’s free and can clone the same drive that is currently running windows too.
If you have a spare third drive (even an external drive) you can drop data onto, you could use Veeam free agent for Windows to back up the whole drive. It will talk you through making the recovery media (usb stick).
Acronis True Image is my preferred imaging software which can clone drives directly, but it costs money if you don’t sail the high seas.
Plug both disks into your PC. Then use a gparted boot disk. There you can clone the partitions and then grow your primary partition on the new disk.
I’ve been using this method for years without problems.
Idk what a gparted boot disk is
Google it.
Gparted is a partition editor. They provide it as a bootable iso. They have instructions on how to put that on a USB drive and make it bootable.
You would boot gparted from usb, not windows, to do the work.
But seriously, Google it.
FTK Imager should have you covered. You might need to do partitioning resizing on the destination though.
dd the entire disk, then resize your partitions with fpart or gparted
Idk what most of what you wrote means
He said Windows.