Cloning Windows 8.1 to new ssd butMacrium Reflect produces an empty drive!!??

[davido-23]

Hi,

 

I have a laptop running windows 8.1 and I'm trying to clone to a larger SSD (all formatted to NTFS etc.) using Macrium Reflect (Free Edition which supports GPT). I went through the partition section and was all setup with my ssd (in usb caddy) as my destination drive, macrium went through it's process (about an hour) and told me the clone was successful, great I thought... so I checked the drive it was completely empty! can anyone advise. Thanks.

[KenB]

Hi davido-23 and welcome to ExTS

 

Not sure what you have done wrong .... there is a tutorial here that may help put you on the right track.

click here

 

Pay particular attention to #4 and #5 in the tutorial.

[Plastic Nev]

Just to add to KenB's advise, look around your existing hard drive first to see if the total of used space has doubled, and if so look deeper to see if Macrium put the clone on or in to some odd folder somewhere. Considering it took around the usual time, it must have put the clone somewhere.

 

If that has happened, and you find it, it may be best to delete it as the next full clone will of course include it otherwise.

[DSTM]

Further to the above advice a free program called "Everything" will find every entry of Macrium on your Hard Drive in seconds.

 

HTH.

 

http://www.voidtools.com/