Need Help Cloning An OS Drive

[ryevick]

I have a SAMSUNG 840 EVO 2.5" 120GB SATA III SSD that I bought for my new tower and now I wish I had bought the 250 GB SSD. After installing everything I have only about 10% of the drive left and would like to add some files bought it's just maxed out... I have never had an SSD before but I assume they need flex room like a standard HDD, either way I hate seeing the drive listed in red in "My Computer". I want to buy the 250 SSD and do an EXACT copy onto the 250 from the 120, including it being labeled drive "C" so I can remove the 120 plugin the 250 and go without issue... format the 120 and use it for whatever. Suggestions? Precautions? Software/Method suggestions? I do have E-A-S-E-U-S Partition Master 5.0.1 Professional Edition... not sure if that could do it though. May need Norton Ghost or something... Help! Thanks!

 

[johnb35]

Any cloning software should work as long as it doesn't have an limitations. Just don't clone partitions, you have to clone the drive as a whole. If you clone the partition it won't boot.

 

[ryevick]

Any cloning software should work as long as it doesn't have an limitations. Just don't clone partitions, you have to clone the drive as a whole. If you clone the partition it won't boot.

Can I clone a running OS (the 120 SSD) to the 250 SSD without issue or should they both be "unaccessed" during the process? Just FYI I'm using Win 7 Pro.

 

[johnb35]

Usually what will happen with most programs is that the system will reboot and boot into the utility that will clone it so that the system is not being used at the time. But yeah, its best to leave the system alone when its cloning.