yuunikki@lemmy.world to asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agoEasiest way to clone/transfer my current 500gb ssd to something bigger without losing all my data? (On Windows) message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareEasiest way to clone/transfer my current 500gb ssd to something bigger without losing all my data? (On Windows) yuunikki@lemmy.world to asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-21 year agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
Last time I tried cloning a drive it failed miserably and I was stuck doing everything manually and took forever
minus-square𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶@lemmy.procrastinati.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoPlug 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.
minus-squareyuunikki@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoIdk what a gparted boot disk is
minus-square𝓢𝓮𝓮𝓙𝓪𝔂𝓔𝓶𝓶@lemmy.procrastinati.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoGoogle 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.
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.