Any good free SSD clone software?

Any good free SSD clone software?

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Posted by: Mo Mo.1947

Mo Mo.1947

Heya! I recently built a new PC and read somewhere that the current preferred backup method is making a clone copy of the drive that can be restored or put on a new drive where the new drive and mobo won’t even know the difference. But the program they recommended wasn’t free.

I’m wondering if some people could recommend a free drive clone software that they’ve used and they think works well?

Any good free SSD clone software?

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Posted by: StinVec.3621

StinVec.3621

My favorite to date is Acronis True Image, though that is also one that requires purchasing.

You may want to give Macrium Reflect a look. It is free and appears to have a real good cloning function and does not suffer from several drawbacks other programs seem to have (such as some requiring the disk to be cloned to be unmounted). However, I have not tried it myself due to being happy with True Image.
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

Other free alternatives can be found here:
https://alternativeto.net/software/acronis-true-image

Macrium Reflect is a Disc Imaging Backup Software to make a complete *.mrimg or *.iso copy of your hard drive.

Main features :

  • Disk Imaging
  • Disk Cloning
  • Access images in Windows Explorer
  • Schedule backups
  • Linux Rescue CD
  • Windows PE Rescue Media (RAID support)
  • Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 compatiblity
  • Support for GPT

It has a built-in scheduler, you can set it up to create backups of the windows harddrive automatically in the background, during you work with Windows.

Images can be saved off to network drives, DVDs, or removable drives (USB and FireWire).

Images can be password-protected for the security of your data.

It uses Windows’ Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS).

The backup images can also be mounted as a virtual drive, which can be very useful for retrieving separate files: you can also restore single files or folders, but backup only the full drive C.

You can restore or migrate the Operating System to a larger harddisk than the original harddisk was.

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Any good free SSD clone software?

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Posted by: Mo Mo.1947

Mo Mo.1947

Cool! I’ll give that program a look, thanks!

Any good free SSD clone software?

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Posted by: kindofabuzz.9357

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Posted by: Menadena.7482

Menadena.7482

No idea what it would be on a PC but I use Carbon Copy Cloner on my mac. It is 40 dollars but has all sorts of fun features.

Any good free SSD clone software?

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Posted by: Beldin.5498

Beldin.5498

You may want to give Macrium Reflect a look. It is free and appears to have a real good cloning function and does not suffer from several drawbacks other programs seem to have (such as some requiring the disk to be cloned to be unmounted). However, I have not tried it myself due to being happy with True Image.
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

Other free alternatives can be found here:
https://alternativeto.net/software/acronis-true-image

Looks really good, since my old Acronis doesn’t install under Win 10.

Did just a bakup that really went fast and without slowing down my PC and
mounted the images as an extra drive to test that.

Thanks for that tip

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Any good free SSD clone software?

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Posted by: StinVec.3621

StinVec.3621

You may want to give Macrium Reflect a look. It is free and appears to have a real good cloning function and does not suffer from several drawbacks other programs seem to have (such as some requiring the disk to be cloned to be unmounted). However, I have not tried it myself due to being happy with True Image.
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx

Other free alternatives can be found here:
https://alternativeto.net/software/acronis-true-image

Looks really good, since my old Acronis doesn’t install under Win 10.

Did just a bakup that really went fast and without slowing down my PC and
mounted the images as an extra drive to test that.

Thanks for that tip

You may also be interested in a few other products if a feature of that one mentioned above is missing or lacking.

I went on a hunt and found that EASEUS has a good piece of software that also has a backup tool available in a free version: “EASEUS Todo Backup”

It specifically states that you can backup specific partitions, compress the backup to save space, and also split the backup into multiple images.

Partition Backup Tutorial


I have also used “MiniTool Partition Wizard” for personal partition copying and it worked wonderfully. I just installed it again to make sure it works as I remember it working. The free edition does have the partition copy feature in addition to the disk copy feature so you can copy an individual partition from a disk to another disk instead of doing a full disk cloning. It is also Win10 compatible.

Another one that works well is “EASEUS Partition Master”. It also kind of integrates their Todo Backup software into it if you also have that installed. It works a lot like MiniTool’s software and has the same partition copy functions, but also offers many more features, even in their free version. It is also Win10 compatible.

For free software, I’d probably recommend to go with EASEUS’ Partition Master and Todo Backup, but they are all free so you can try them all out.

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Posted by: Mo Mo.1947

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I had downloaded the Todo but it seemed so extremely freeware and trialware that I wasn’t even sure if I could use it again when I needed it. Also there are like 3 different websites to download the same thing so I can’t tell which one is like an adware filled version…