How to clone Windows from one HD to another (SSD)#
With Tools#
- Acronius Diskdirector
- Paragon Partition Manager
- Clonezilla
- Partimage
- GParted (Freeware)
- UBCD
Without Tools, you can use Windows itself#
If you see commands below, please run them as administrator.
See also CT "Umzugshilfe"
1. Create bootable USB stick #
This bootable stick is used to create an image from your disk and later to store it to the new disk. For Windows 8.1 the recovery tool claimed a stick with ~4 GB.> Systemsteuerung > Wiederherstellung > Wiederherstellungslaufwerk erstellen
(en?: > Systems Control Panel > Recovery > Create recovery drive)
If the checkbox "Kopieren Sie die Wiederherstellungspartition vom PC auf das Wiederherstellungslaufwerk." is grayed out, then the recover drive does not exists. After "Weiter" you will then get the message "Auf diesem PC kann kein Wiederherstellungslaufwerk erstellt werden" You can check it with this
> C:\windows\system32>REAGENTC /INFO
Konfigurationsinformationen zur Windows-Wiederherstellungsumgebung (WinRE) und
zur Systemwiederherstellung:
WinRE-Status: Disabled
WinRE-Ort:
Startkonfigurationsdaten-ID: 96321216-6fb3-11e3-842e-8c5116e2ec12
Ort des Wiederherstellungsimages:
Index des Wiederherstellungsimages: 0
Ort des benutzerdefinierten Images:
Index des benutzerdefinierten Images: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Vorgang erfolgreich.
Solution:
1. Create any folder, e.g. C:\Win81-Recovery
2. Copy C:\support\install.wim from the Win 8-DVD to this new folder
3. Execute
> C:\windows\system32>REAGENTC /SetOSImage /Path C:\Win81-Recovery\INSTALL.WIM /Index 1 Verzeichnis festgelegt auf: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Win81-Recovery REAGENTC.EXE: Vorgang erfolgreich.4. Execute
C:\windows\system32>REAGENTC /ENABLE REAGENTC.EXE: Vorgang erfolgreich.
Now you should be able to continue with creating a recovery drive on a stick. Do so and then disable it for the copy process.
> REAGENTC /DISABLE
You should check also, if anything is secured with
C:\windows\system32>CIPHER /U /N Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.If the system cannot find the file, it is OK!
2. Create image (copy HD)#
Boot from the USB stick and chooseProblembehandlung > Erweiterte Optionen > Eingabeaufforderung
(en?: Solve problem > Extended options > Command line)
Use "diskpart" to get an overview of you drives and volumes
> diskpart DISKPART> list vol Volume ### Bst Bezeichnung DS Typ Größe Status Info ---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -------- Volume 0 H DVD-ROM 0 B Kein Medi Volume 1 I DVD-ROM 0 B Kein Medi Volume 2 C Windows NTFS Partition 237 GB Fehlerfre Startpar Volume 3 Recovery NTFS Partition 350 MB Fehlerfre Versteck Volume 4 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 100 MB Fehlerfre System Volume 5 F Media NTFS Partition 937 GB Fehlerfre Volume 6 G Docs NTFS Partition 925 GB Fehlerfre Volume 7 E Store NTFS Partition 1863 GB Fehlerfre Volume 8 D Video NTFS Partition 2794 GB Fehlerfre Volume 9 J FAT32 Wechselmed 29 GB Fehlerfre Volume 10 X Extern NTFS Partition 232 GB Fehlerfre DISKPART> list disk Datenträger ### Status Größe Frei Dyn GPT --------------- ------------- ------- ------- --- --- Datenträger 0 Online 238 GB 0 B * Datenträger 1 Online 1863 GB 1024 KB * Datenträger 2 Online 1863 GB 0 B Datenträger 3 Online 2794 GB 0 B * Datenträger 4 Online 29 GB 0 B Datenträger 5 Online 232 GB 0 B DISKPART> exit
I used this process to copy a smaller SSD to a new bigger one. In the example above you can see from the size and names that my disk of choice was "disk 0" and "volume C:". From the star in column "GPT" you see that I use a GPT (GUID Partition Table) partition table. Those partition tables have two additional hidden partitions (Volume 2+3 above). The other option is a MBR/BIOS partition table. Then you would have only one additional hidden partition. GPT seems to be common today (up-to-date).
Create image (make sure, you exit diskpart before!)
> dism /capture-image /imagefile:x:\image.wim /capturedir:C: /scratchdir:x: /name:"MyImage"X: would be the destination. In my case it was an external drive, but you can use any other additional drive/folder.
Note: In the article above it is explained how to create a skip-list, if you do not want to copy everything.
You can check, if the image contains a file with this
> dism /list-image /imagefile:x:\image.wim /index:1 | find /i "notepad.exe"With the image (wim file) you need to specify the index always, because it may contain multiple. On disk the files took ~60GB which resulted in a ~24GB image file.
3. Store image on new disk#
Change drive physically and boot again from stick. Go to the command line again and prepare the new drive.
Note: Make sure you select the right disk in the first diskpart command!
GPT:
> diskpart sel disk 0 clean convert gpt create partition primary size=350 format quick fs=ntfs label="Recovery" set id="de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac" create partition efi size=100 format quick fs=fat32 label="System" assign create partition msr size=128 create partition primary format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows" assign
MBR:
> diskpart sel disk 0 clean convert mbr create partition primary size=350 id=27 active format quick fs=ntfs label="Boot" assign create partition primary format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows" assign
You can capture the commands above into any file and run it in batch mode with
diskpart /s <file>
Now copy the image back to disk:
> dism /apply-image /applydir:c: /imagefile:x:\image.wim /scratchdir:x: /index:1
Place boot files
GPT: > bcdboot c:\windows /s z: /f all /l de-de MBR: > bcdboot c:\windows /s z: /f bios /l de-dez: is a placeholder for the "System" (or "Boot") partition. This partition is assigned temporarily with the diskpart preparations commands above. Please check with "list vol" which one to choose.
Done. You should now be able to boot from the new disk and you should not see any difference.
Optionally: Enable recovery again
> REAGENTC /ENABLE