This process comes in very handy when replacing a drive with a new one, like I showed here. I copied 260 GB from my external hard drive to my newly-purchased internal one in about 3 hours and 30 minutes.Ĭloning a drive makes an exact duplicate of the one you’re currently using. The amount of time it takes will depend on the amount of data and your hard drive speeds. The cloning can take anywhere from a few minutes to hours or days. You might get a warning message about overwritten files, on which you would want to click Continue.Īnd a small tray notification indicating the beginning of the process will pop up. If everything is okay, however, click Finish to begin cloning process. If you did something wrong, you can always go back and reconfigure. In most cases, you would want to leave that enabled, so just click Next to continue.įrom here on, you will get a summary of the operations that will be performed.

If the hard drive you will be cloning has partitions, ticking this box will partition the destination hard drive on the next step. Notice the checkbox Copy selected partitions when I click “Next”. Then pick the new hard drive your cloning your current drive to. Next click the “ Select a Disk to Clone To” link. On the main screen you can see all of your hard drives along with their partitions (if they have any).įirst, find the disk you want to clone and then click the Clone this Disk button below.

The user interface of the program is nice and clean, and it brings the most common features right up front. The analysis simply checks the used file system, available space, and other basic information about each drive and partition. The first time you start up Reflect it will analyze every hard drive connected to your computer. Downloading and installing is as simple as ever, and the installed makes no attempt to flood your computer with search engines or other crapware you don’t need. You’ll find that the free version has more than enough features for what you want to do.

Macrium Reflect has three versions – Free, Standard, Pro, and Server editions.

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