How to clone Windows 10 - The Free and Easy way!

if you guys haven't seen the series the three-part series where i built this ultimate amd rig make sure you go and check those out but this presented the perfect opportunity to make a video that you guys have been asking me to make well forever because i promised forever ago that i was going to do it but i'm finally doing it better later than never how to clone your windows 10 drive that way you can have more than one of them all right so there's a lot of different tools that we can use to do this we are going to be choosing the free variety because why not there are plenty of free options out there that can do this task with uh without having to pay for things so the one we're using today is the aomi aomei backupper there's two versions of this there's a back upper and then a partition assistant we only need the partition assistant if you're going from a backup uh if you're cloning from a smaller drive to a larger drive and the reason for that and we'll talk about that in a second uh is if you're going from a smaller drive to a larger drive it's going to turn the entire drive it's cloning into a partition on the larger drive so the excess that's not being used will be a separate partition and will show up like a second drive in that one hard drive because you can slice up drives into partitions and they will all show up as individual drives so you would use the partition assistant to just extend that volume to being the total size of the drive there's other tools you can use to do it i believe the windows disk management tool can even do it for you however we would be using the partition assistant for that so the aomei backuper there's a free version and then there's a pro version now all the things we need are available in the free version you just have to sign up for their newsletter and that's all it takes to get it for free you can cancel the newsletter later if you like um but hey given the fact that it's free i think that's a very fair trade so there's a couple of different options here you've got new backup and new sync and then you've got all these options here on the left so the way we've got this set up is i've got my one terabyte nvme ssd drive in there and then i'm actually just using an external dock here for a 980 gigabyte or 960 gigabyte patriot ignite sata ssd so i don't think most people would be going from an nvme to a sata but the drive type really doesn't matter the only thing the drive type is going to determine is how fast the copy sort of happens and there is a part of this that takes quite a while so there will be an intermission during this video so what we're going to do is make sure that your drives are installed uh either through a an interface like this or in the computer or whatever you can clone it in the computer let's say it's an nvme you can put it in one of the nvme slots clone it and then take it out and put another computer you can plug in the sata cables in the state of power for a sata drive you know internally or externally the only thing is usb 3.0 is actually going to be a slower process in terms of the copying because usb 3.0 3.0 interface is not as fast as sata 6. so i'm slowing it down technically by doing it this way however it's more simple to just stick it in that i think i got that for like 30 bucks or something like that off amazon or apparently best buy because it's insignia all right so on the left over here you're going to click clone and then we're going to click disk clone now the thing about disk cloning here windows 10 has a very specific partition type and a very specific install you can't just clone a drive by using any clone tool and have it work so you have to make sure that you use a tool that's capable of actually cloning the disk exactly as it's set up the partitions the drive type the file type all of that to make sure that windows will actually boot otherwise you can get a clone to drive but then when you go to boot it won't actually boot so this is my first time trying this particular tool we're going to see in real time how it goes so you have to choose a source disk in this particular instance it is uh disc zero this is our nvme it's a two terabyte nvme so we're going from a two terabyte drive down to a 960 gigabyte drive so that particular clone i won't have to worry about doing the whole uh partition management thing because it's just going to partition to the end of the drive because the drive partition for the source is larger than the actual destination now the partition size being larger isn't a problem as long as the data doesn't exceed the amount of storage on the drive that we're going to so as long as the data is less and the partition is larger from the source to the destination then the partition will be the whole drive and then the data will copy and not fill up the entire drive it'll tell you though if it if the drive drives too small right so clearly you want to make sure you have enough volume so now that we selected our source hit next our destination disk this disk 2 is our 960 gigabyte drive now it does have a windows install on there now it's just a drive we've used in the past for other things one of the things it's going to do is it's going to format and remove all of the partitions that are on that drive so you don't have to pre-format it you don't have to pre-partition resize or get rid of any of those partitions it will do it for you now one of the things that's going to do here when you hit next it says after performing the operation the existing partitions are removed like i just said it's basically saying hey make sure this is how you want it because anything on that drive when the process is complete will be gone but fortunately what it does when you click start clone here is it's going to start copying the data and what's going to happen here is it's going to pre-allocate the data it's going to make sure that there's enough space on the new drive before it starts copying or formatting anything so think of this as like when you download something with steam and it does that whole pre-allocating disk thing it's the same thing it's making sure everything is in order before it starts that way you don't have destruction of data prior to it actually being able to complete because that would suck if it's suddenly going okay we're going to work we're just going to delete the partitions and start copying and then get to the end of the drive and go oh crap we're out of space and that's where we stop obviously that wouldn't be a working install it wouldn't be a proper clone and it would be destruction of data unnecessarily you'll probably notice it'll get to 72 really quickly and then it might well 73 it might look like it freezes here this is where you need to just be patient if you're going from a spinning drive to an ssd which there's two common scenarios here i think people are going to fall under you're going from a hard drive or a spinning disc to an ssd or you're going from a smaller drive to a larger drive if you're going from a spinning drive or a standard stata drive the copying speed is going to be fairly slow especially a hard drive remember most hard drives cap out at about 100 megabytes to maybe 150 megabytes per second when it's copying a large file you're clearly copying a ton of small files so if you click copying data here at least it'll give you an analyzing volume status this is that part where i just said it's making sure that the new drive is capable of accepting the current drive and its partition before it starts so we're only five percent in and all that time i've been talking that's because we have well 8 819 264 files that's files not size so i think we only have about 500 gigabytes of actual data on this drive that's being copied so as you can see this will take a while right six percent this is the part where you need to be diligent and wait and be patient if if for some reason your system loses power or restarts nothing was damaged like i just said nothing has started copying no partitions have been removed until the analyzing process is done and it starts copying the data which will go faster than analyzing usually you would just have to start the process over and then any analyzing time that you spent that didn't finish is wasted and you just start all over so we're gonna do right now is we're gonna go play a game or something while we wait because this could probably take up to an hour depending on your drives it could take several hours so just click that copying data button that way you can see the progress right here that way you don't think it's just frozen and stuck on you a lot of people do this they get hyper they get stuck on the whole it's not moving percentage because it got to 73 real fast and it stuck so this program sucks because it's freezing it's not freezing it's not looking at the details to see what's happening so we'll show you what happens next when that portion is done so it's been about an hour since i showed you that part where it's analyzing now it's copying the data speeds at 36.67 megabytes per second which will take us about two hours to copy our 362.97 gigabytes of data if they were both nvme it'd be much faster than that but a lot of that's because of the fact we are going through usb 3.0 but this is the part where i said go to netflix watch a movie go play some games on a different computer obviously while it's copying copying files you don't want to be changing things on the system right so let the system be go do something else we'll come back in a couple hours all right so it's been about four hours later almost four hours since we started this process so after analyzing the disk verifying that there was enough space on the disk and then copying all the files which again was like not even 400 gigabytes took several hours but fortunately by it taking so long you know that it's actually going in and getting every single file clone byte for byte which is exactly what we want so it says congratulations the clone task has completed successfully so now if we just go ahead and click finish that's it it's back to the start so now i'm going to come in here to uh this pc and check it out our file structure should be exactly the same so if we open up that up or open that up we've got amd keep it kid kids videos blah blah this is videos for my my daughters they like to make videos at home so here you can see it's basically exactly the same so there you go you can see it is exactly the same in the way it's ordered the dates of everything is even the same see the last time that was modified eleven seven twenty twenty nine thirty two eleven seven twenty twenty nine thirty two so it's all identical now this is the part where i said if you had a drive that's larger than the one you're copying from you would now have an unallocated partition on there so it would look like a second drive according to windows um what you want to do now if that's the case is open up this partition analyzer or petition assistant so this is the drive we copied from there to here and if this was let's say the one terabyte mark you would see a line there just like you see here these are different partitions so you see these little separated lines you would see an unallocated partition on the end and then you'd be able to use this tool to actually extend the partition or remove the partition entirely it's up to you simple enough again it's another free utility and it's just called o-e-m-i-a-o-m-e-i partition assistant 9.0 so now i want to see if everything worked what i'm going to do take that drive i'm going to attach it to a sata cable like this i'm going to just plug in sata power let it hang out the back and i'm going to see if it will boot in to windows 10 after doing that clone there's my drive that popped up that was very satisfying wasn't it whoa okay got it so now we're just going to plug it in the back so now i'm just going to turn it on i'm going to go to the bios and i'm going to do a forced boot on that drive oh look it shows up here boot option 2 windows boot manager sata 6g so that's our clone drive right there we already see the windows boot manager copied um so here it is right here windows boot manager sata 6g uh patriot ignite 960. so we're going to boot off that windows is loading it's getting things kind of ready oh look at that clearly this was nebulous drive that i cloned so this is technically its first time booting off of that but check it out here we are now the system is completely booted if i right click and we look at our drives and stuff check it out this pc now drive c is our 960 gig and then this was our original drive that we booted from last time so what took a second there was the fact that it had to remap those drives so essentially right now anything that would be installed on another drive that has look at all these broken links right here you see this that's because a lot of these things might have to be remapped and clicking on them usually is all it takes to get it to fix itself and these are all my games oh you know why those are all broken because this drive commander nebula and the drive that those are installed in is no longer in the system but if they were those these wouldn't be dead links like they are so as you can see and it wants me to relog into microsoft account because of the fact that a clone drive doesn't actually clone over the user accounts like that you have to re-log in that's about the worst thing you'd have to deal with but as you can see we've cloned windows 10 we're fully booted on it and we did it for free no they did not sponsor this video at all this is just a program that i happen to know that has a free version that will allow you to actually clone your windows 10 without having to pay for it so i'll put a link down in the description below it's probably going to break the website so if you guys are watching this video right now and you're like the website's not working it's because i accidentally ddosed them by simply showing this to you guys but i've been asked to do this video so many times and i thought it was important to actually share it with you so as you can see it all worked flawlessly this also works really well to do uh backups this program does also have uh backup features built in where every night or every other night you can have it save an image of your drive or an iso of it to another drive which that drive will do nothing but sit there as like a redundant backup which is how a lot of our systems work here every every day phil's system is backed up you know and he does it manually but you could do it through a a system like this where every night it would do it if the computer is left on i hope this showed you guys it's not hard and the amount of people that told me you can't clone windows 10 clearly are wrong so there you go guys if you like this video do me a favor and give it a thumbs up if you're new around here feel free to hit that subscribe button it is free i mean i pay you guys two cents essentially stupid dad joke there but if you guys also know of someone that's trying to clone windows 10 share this video with them or if you want to if you built another computer and you want to clone your drive there you go there's an ethics discussion in there i guess about whether or not cloning it is um legal legit whatever what's going to happen though is if you take a clone drive and you put it in another system with all different hardware it's going to prompt you to reactivate anyway and how you go about that whether it's buy new key or reactivate the key or whatever totally on you i'm not responsible how you guys handle that but as you see you can clone windows 10 flawlessly and effortlessly it just took about four hours of going and doing things so i spent about what what would you say nick if i wasn't doing a video i could have done the entire like input process in like three minutes five minutes worth of setup four hours worth of doing other things and then you guys saw how long it took me to get it up and running it took longer to put a drive in here and get it all set up than to actually just boot the system didn't even have to change anything in the bios technically maybe the boot order make sure that drive is your boot your main boot drive all right guys i've rambled on and left long enough to make this video 10 minutes long all right we'll see in the next one clone your drives [Music] you

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Published: Sun Dec 27 2020