My laptop only has one drive but since I’ve attached my new one via USB it’s also displayed. Once the Macrium Reflect installation completes you’ll see screen displaying your computer’s hard drive.
MACRIUM REFLECT NO CLONE OPTION LICENSE
You will be prompted to accept the License Agreement and confirm you’re using it for home use or enter your license for business use. After downloading the software, just launch the installation wizard and follow the prompts to get started.
MACRIUM REFLECT NO CLONE OPTION SOFTWARE
Before installing the software I attached my new Samsung 870 SATA SSD drive via the Sabrent USB SATA adapter. The free Windows disk drive cloning tool Macrium Reflect allows you clone your computer’s hard drive to an external usb drive while still in Windows. In the old days to clone a drive with a legacy program like Ghost you had to use a boot cd outside of Windows.
How does one how does one transfer all their “stuff” from one hard drive to another with minimal downtime and more importantly not having to reinstall applications again? The answer is disk drive cloning using Macrium Reflect which is straight forward and incredibly also happens to be free for home users. At some point the hard drive needs to be replaced which leads to the next question. Eventually emptying the recycle bin, uninstalling programs, and deleting temporary files will not be enough.
When you have Windows low disk space notification, the question is what does one do? The short answer is to leverage a free disk space utilization tool like WindirStat or JDisk to quickly identify folders that are using disproportionately more space. That 120 GB drive that used to be enough for web surfing and the occasional Word doc or Xcel spreadset is no longer getting the job done and needs to go. Year after year as software gets more complex and personal files, music, and pictures accumulate, disk drive space continues to shrink.
Just for reference our laptop came with Windows 7 preinstalled. Like most families being on a budget, we originally purchased our laptop with minimal specs to save money. Naturally being the official tech person in our family I would get an earful from the end users (my kids 😃 ) about not having our home infrastructure optimized for future growth. Family members would be using the computer and then get the Windows Low disk space message and simply closing the notification wasn’t enough. Recently I had a family laptop that was low on hard drive space and was periodically causing “operational” issues.
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