Hello everybody, welcome to my channel Aldrich's tech n game
so in this video, i'm going to teach you guys how to clone a
 drive 
to be more specific, if you bought a new SSD or HardDisk
to replace your previous C: drive which is your window drive
and how you should clone, setting your bios and formatting 
your previous drive
so what is cloning
cloning = 克隆
which is copy and paste
so, why should we clone our drive?
because if you bought a new harddisk or SSD and want to 
replace your previous window drive
because Solid State Drive is faster !!!!
and you're lasy to do format 
and this is where cloning comes into place 
which is copying exacly the samething from your C: drive 
including the window file to your new drive
so, when you plug in your new drive your pc can start up 
normally without formatting 
which is much more convenient.
so,  i'll cut the crap 
because this video might be long and boring 
because i will explain and list some of the problem we might
 encounter as we are cloning
so let take a look at how cloning should be done
ok, so lets see how cloning is inside window
so, window it self doesn't have the cloning function 
so we can only clone through some 3rd party software
so what we have here is Acronis and EaseUS partition master 
other than these two we also have Macrium Reflect and Aomei
and also minitools 
so , the 4 software i mentioned before you'll have to buy em
 and gain access to its cloning function
but i recall that minitools is free if you want to use its 
cloning function 
friends that are interested can go and google it 
i got Acronis as a free software throught the purchase of 
XPG's SSD
and in my next video, i will explain and introduce more into
 this.
as for EaseUS partition master, if you guys are interested
there is a video link down in my video describtion below
you guys can go take a look 
as i mention most of these software requires you to buy it 
but we are poor AF
before i enter my main topic, you guys have to know
YOU HAVE TO BACK UP YOUR FILE FIRST !!!
and if you clone C: drive then you back up whatever is in C 
drive 
and if you clone D: then backup D: and whatever important 
files or document you have inside
but you can leave software out because software can be 
re-download 
so when i mention C: drive you guys might only go the C: 
drive and check
but what really important is 
actually Documents , pictures ,musics and video is also a 
part of C: drive
like in Documents contains alot of your game's save file
and it is better that you back it up so you don't lose your 
games progress
save it to your pen drive , harddisk or thumb drive
and also your precious memories in video, music and picture
back those up into your external harddrive or whatever as 
well
SAVE EM UP !! ITS HARD TO RECOVER ONCE YOU LOSE IT YOU DUMB 
FXXK
actually cloning is not that terrifying 
the chances for it to go wrong is really low 
we just wanna guarantee our self that we still have those 
file IF any thing goes wrong
and now i wanna show you guys these two application
which they have their own advantage, i like em both anyway 
lets take a look at Acronis true image
actually they're both the same 
just go to clone 
i will go through this pretty fast 
so the good thing about Acronis image is it can let you 
exclude file.
theres one thing you guys need to know and it is undeniably 
important
lets say your old window drive is 1TB 
and you wanna clone your old drive to your new drive 
which could be your SSD and it is expensive so you propably 
won't get a 1TB SSD 
and lets say your SSD is 512 GB
and IF in your 1TB drive you have used over 500GB
which exceed the size of your new harddisk or SSD 
it cannot be clone to the new drive because of insufficient 
space
so, Acronis is good when it comes to this situation, when 
you don't have enough space
and it can let you exclude files
for example files like games in you C: drive which is window
 drive 
cannot be clone because games took up too much space 
and you can select what you wanna exclude in this interface 
and click proceed
you can expand the files to look for game files to exclude 
or other huge in size software
but ill be using EaseUS partition master this time 
when you open it up 
just go to clone and ignore migrate OS
its simple, click clone
and it will ask you which drive you wanna clone 
in this case i wanna clone window drive, so i select the 
window drive 
and select your new drive or SSD for it to copy to
and if your drive is previously used 
it will inform you if you wanna clone into this drive 
they will perform a format and wipe whatever is in that 
drive
just press ok, and the task will go the the column in the 
top left corner 
click it and click apply
and when you click apply here it will go into a re-boot 
sequence 
and show thing like this 
So when it is cloning it will show you the infomation of its
 progress 
it will let you know which partition it is cloning, how many
 % it has reached, and overall how many % done
and during the cloning process it will try and help you 
assign your old drive into new letter drive 
and i will also try and assign C as the letter of the drive 
you're cloning into 
after finishing cloning you window will start by it self 
and after start up, if you're cloning C: drive 
we'll have to confirm something 
go to This pc and see if it is using the new drive to boot 
your PC
so my new drive is this 476GB which is 512 GB
and my old drive is this 222GB one
and the window icon is at the 222GB old drive, which means 
it is booting up using your old drive 
so as i mention just now the cloning process will try and 
assign the new drive to C:
and your old drive will assign to a new letter
and you can see it is booting up using the old drive which 
means the letter assign doesn't do the work 
but this is not a problem because we can do some setting to 
it
it is related to the BIOS level setting 
because in the bios the first booting option is still your 
old drive 
and lets go and set it now 
restart
so as the screen dim down, put your finger at F2 and delete
you doesn't have to press F2 and Delete together but you 
just wanna spam
we just wanna get into this BIOS level  interface 
different brand of motherboard has different LOOK of 
interface like mine is GIGABYTE
and there is also Asus, Msi and ASrock 
but the option is pretty much the same 
just go to BIOS and look for boot option priorities
we can see that it is using my old SSD to boot up this PC
and now we want to switch it to my new SSD or new harddisk 
in your case
and when we are changing it we must be very careful
we must pick the option that has "WINDOWS BOOT MANAGER" in 
the front 
both of these is XPG SPECTRIX S40G 
we must pick the one with the keyword
only then it can boot your window normally
and you'll have to set your new drive to boot option #1
and disable the old one or set it as boot option #2
finish the setting, save and exit
if you picked one without the key work 
your PC won't start but instead show you something like this
 
and what you wanna do now is to restart re-enter the 	BIOS 
setting and re-set it 
after finishing setting and getting back into window 
what we wanna check first is in this pc
so we don't want to look at the drive letter
what we wanna see instead is their size
because I have to remember your old drive space which is 
222GB
and the new one is 476GB which is 512GB
and the window icon is at the drive that is 476GB which is 
512GB new SSD
and when the icon is there, i know that my PC is using my 
new SSD to boot up my window 
so theres another thing that we should know 
no matter how many drive you have, and you have bootable 
window inside them, they can boot up your window
if i boot up my window using this old drive which is a drive
 D:
when i come back to the window, the system will 
automatically swap the drive letter with previous drive
which the drive you choose to bootup window will become C: 
and your previous drive will swap to other letter
so no matter how if you choose X drive to boot up window, 
after restart drive X will become C:
and after cloning you will see some really small partition/ 
volume
and it is easy to get rid of these 
go to Search> disk part
this is the place that is used to manage all your harddisk 
and this is disk 0 which is my old drive
and i also want to format it as well 
actually it cannot be format here
it cannot be like the one underneath it self which doesn't 
have any partition 
because it is a window drive 
and there is other ways to format this drive , but ill 
finish up the small partition/ volumn first
you'll have to find the exact partition it is in 
right click > change driver letter and path > remove
so lets get into format now 
so because it is a window drive it cannot be format through 
create and format harddisk partition 
search > command prompt > right click > run as administrator
when you enter, you have to type the following 
diskpart no space
after entering diskpart then you'll have to type
so you'll have to know which harddrive that you wanna format
the old window files is in my old SSD which is San disk
and it is the one that is 222GB  
and i know this drive is exactly the drive i need to select 
which is disk 0 (in my case)
type
and then i'll tell you disk X is the selected disk 
if we wanna double check just type list disk then enter
and when the list show up you can see that 
beside the disk you have selected have this *
to let you know that you have selected this disk 
type clean then enter to format
if you window is booting up with the drive you have selected
 
if you type
an error message will pop up and inform you that 
your PC is booting up via this drive and you cannot format 
it because of that 
and thats all 
after you formated the drive 
take a look into this pc and you'll know that the formated 
drive is gone
so where have that drive gone?
because we have formated it and it is reset to be like a new
 drive, so it won't show up at here
just like i mentioned before, we'll have to go to create and
 format harddisk partition to activate new drive
so when you open this up it will pop up a message that want 
you to choose a format for your new drive 
just choose GPT
because MBR is for the older version of windows so just 
ignore it 
GPT is the commonly used drive format for newer version of 
windows
after you click ok, the drive will appear in black
which is unallocated means you haven't assign any name or 
letter to it 
you can put any name for volume lable, for me mine was Local
 Disk
after that just click next, then finish 
so now you'll see that the drive you have assigned haven't 
appeard 
because it is formatting and might take a little time 
and when it finishes format, a window of that new drive will
 pop up 
it has appeared here
but if you have waited a long time and it just won't appear
and go back to the create and format harddisk partition
and the partition is not doing anything, then you'll have to
 
assign the volume again 
right click at the unallocated partition> change drive 
letter and path
click add> choose letter >ok
and thats it, you have finished the whole process
you're using your new drive to boot up window
and also formatted your previous drive 
so that's all for my video today 
and it is my first time to do HOW TO video 
if i had missed something or say something wrong, i hope you
 guys would let me know down in the comment area 
so that i can improve upon that 
and if you guys have encounter cloning problem during the 
process you can also leave a comment 
i will try my best to help and answer you question 
although i am not an expert
i really hope that my video can help you guys 
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 to my channel 
i will make more content base on product unboxing and How 
to's video
and propably some gaming content as well
just don't have any idea at the moment
and that's all for this video
thanks for watching my video
i'll see you guys next time, thanks !
