I have it all set up now so fare to clone my HDD to an SSD.
I was thinking to just clone my operating system to the new SSD and set all my
music software new and fresh.
Whats the best software for this?
I may also pay something for it, if it is not to much for just on cloning.
All the best for you, and thanks for your help:)
Best free software to clone my Operating system from HDD to SSD
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- KVRAF
- 2066 posts since 11 Aug, 2012 from omfr morf form romf frmo
Windows: Macrium Reflect Free Edition. Can create an image while you're running Windows plus more, like backups. Paid edition can help save backup storage space and make full restores easier with rolling incremental backups. I used this to switch a system drive from a single drive to RAID. The backups have saved me from oopsies and can do a full restore if needed.
Linux: dd or Clonezilla.
Mac: Clonezilla.
Note you should deauthorize ilok (machine-based), elicenser (machine-based), codemeter (machine-based, Reason, Avenger), Waves (machine-based), and anything else machine authorized before the clone. A hard drive change is often considered a considerable one. Best practice to deauth if you open up your computer case for anything besides no-touch cleaning. Even cable swaps can trigger a change!
Linux: dd or Clonezilla.
Mac: Clonezilla.
Note you should deauthorize ilok (machine-based), elicenser (machine-based), codemeter (machine-based, Reason, Avenger), Waves (machine-based), and anything else machine authorized before the clone. A hard drive change is often considered a considerable one. Best practice to deauth if you open up your computer case for anything besides no-touch cleaning. Even cable swaps can trigger a change!
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astralprojection astralprojection https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=443661 - Banned
- 361 posts since 30 Jun, 2019
Easy.
Macrium reflect free.
Macrium reflect free.
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- Beware the Quoth
- 35529 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
zactly that.
An idiot on Set Theory:
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
"In some cases there is an object called red that contains everything that is red. In much the same way a pot is a plate."
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- KVRAF
- 8513 posts since 12 Feb, 2006 from Helsinki, Finland
I would not recommend trying to use 'dd' unless you really know what you're doing, because there's a number of things that can go wrong... and it's horribly inefficient too as it's a dumb tool that just copies data and doesn't understand anything about filesystems, so you end up cloning all the free space as well.
In Windows one way to migrate to a new disk without any external software is to just setup the new disk as a mirror of the old one with the built-in software RAID, then wait for a sync. Afterwards one can boot from the new disk and (optionally) remove the old one from the mirror. This requires the two disks to be somewhat similar logically though (eg. I think at least cluster size has to match, perhaps something else as well), so not sure if it'd work with a HDD+SSD. In this case as well though, I might not exactly recommend this approach unless you already know what you are doing.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 2600 posts since 26 Jul, 2004
Macrium did the job perfect so fare.
All my software runs fine and starts without any problem.
Only Cubase and Studio One 4 did tell they were not registered for this mashine, but that was handelt fast.
So thanks to all. Everything is really fast no:)
All my software runs fine and starts without any problem.
Only Cubase and Studio One 4 did tell they were not registered for this mashine, but that was handelt fast.
So thanks to all. Everything is really fast no:)