#Macrium reflect cloning to larger drive professional

To modify the partition sizes, click the ' Cloned Partition Properties' link It is therefore possible to modify the size of each partition to fit the new disk.ĥ. Obviously, this will easily fit but may leave large parts of the target disk unused. In this example, the 127GB disk is being cloned to a 1TB disk.

Please note that if you already have established partitions on the target disk, you need to select each one and click the Delete Existing partition link before you can drag and resize partitions from the source. You can now drag and drop the partitions you wish to be cloned as shown by the red arrow below. In this case, there is only one disk available for cloning to.Ĥ. Now select the hard disk you wish to clone to. In the destination section click the 'Select a disk to clone to.' link.ģ. The clone disk wizard dialogue should pop up. In this case MBR Disk 1 and click ' Clone this disk' as shown in red below.Ģ. There are some links at bottom of tutorial for further help with Cloning or Imaging.ġ. Into your computer such as by using SATA. To boot your computer with the hard-drive from the Caddy, the hard-drive will need to be installed However, in this tutorial, it is assumed that the new disk contains no partitions.Īs well as cloning to a hard drive installed in your computer you can also clone your hard drive to a hard drive installed in a ‘USB hard-driveĬaddy’ using this as the Target/Destination. It is possible toĭelete and reconfigure any existing partitions or configure new partitions within Macrium Reflect, so there is no need to do this prior to the cloning In order to clone a disk, you must ensure that your system has the target/destination disk installed on the system. Installed with new hardware may also need these editions of Macrium To make the new hard drive bootable with new hardware by using ReDeploy a cloned hard drive

#Macrium reflect cloning to larger drive professional

Or a new hard drive or even to a new replacement computer (the latter may need the Professional or Server editions of Macrium Reflect

Over a clone is that an Image file can be scheduled daily, weekly or monthly at a day and time you choose. As an alternative to cloning, you could Image your hard drive, saving the Image file to another Hard drive. System once the cloning process has been completed.Ĭloning your Hard Drive to another Hard Drive will give you a bootable new hard drive with the state of your computer at the time you undertook Macrium Reflect manages the hard drive IDs such that the target disk will be bootable on the same This is particularly useful if a hard drive isīeing upgraded to a larger size for example. It is possible to clone an entire hard drive or specific partitions on a hard drive to a new one.