I use XXCLONE (free). It doesn't care about drive size as long as there's enough room for the data. Makes a bootable copy in less than an hour for around 100GBs. When my system goes south I just swap SATA cables, update from last time I swapped them, and then send new copy to the old, replaced drive. It's pretty much painless.
Never heard of it. I'd use Macrium as suggested. You can try to clone with it first and then if that becomes a problem, save a backup image instead to recover using the boot disk. It's good to have the disk for rescue anyway.
I am hoping to use a free program as it is a once only thing. Cloning seems to be a bit iffy as I have just tried Mini Tool Drive Copy, Drive Clone and Macrium Reflect and all have failed. I have turned off all power saving and cool and quiet. WEI is 6.2 7.2 4.6 6.3 5.9 , a slow graphics card should not affect things. SATA3 throughout. At the moment, I am running Easus Todo backup free 7.5, still running after 1 1/2 hours with no end in sight.
Brian is right. For cloning, the partition sizes matter. They have to be equal or smaller to the SSD size. For imaging, the partition size does not matter - at least not with Macrium.
Yes. I shrunk C so that it was just smaller than the ssd. I have let Todo continue, it is 3hours 22 minutes so far and the estimated time to go has slowly increased to 2 hours 26 minutes so far. If this fails, I will try the imaging route.
Could my windows background, which is set to change every ten seconds be the problem?
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