Provided the machine already has a Digital Licence for, say, Windows 10, then all you need do is download the Media Creation Tool and pop what is needed onto a USB Stick. I think you'll agree that Windows 10 is pretty quick to install from scratch, so I would tend to do that unless I specifically need to keep Software that is already installed on the smaller Drive. Some PITA companies make it near impossible to re-install older Software, or make their later Software incapable of reading Files created using older copies of their own Software.īut making an Image of a Drive is very handy if experimenting, so you can delete and try again just by using the Image to start over again from. Indeed, that is probably the number one benefit of cloning or copying a Drive, not to keep the OS, but to keep other installed Software based around the installed OS, that may well be hard to re-install or re-activate if reinstalled. But to copy or clone via that, would need Software, so the one used in this video could be ideal. I also have quite handy and simple USB based interfaces, that have SATA or IDE ends, so you can reach older Drives via USB. That's also usually the main reason for doing so, to migrate to a larger Drive, but to also keep all Software. More recently I tend to just clone Drives via dedicated external units that just copy one Drive over to the other, but this is only viable when the target Drive is larger than the original being cloned, and if the cloning peripheral has the latest interfaces. When the same machine when the OS was loaded from scratch, was OK. Hard to say why, just had problems with PCs that were based upon a Drive Image used to create or re-create the OS (same Hardware, usually same machine, so not a case of different Hardware causing it). In the past, I used to use DriveImage, but found the results via that could be problematic.
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