How to Clone a Laptop Hard Drive Using Macrium Reflect Free

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Make sure you have an extra hard drive (internal or external) that has the same size as your HDD or larger.

   If you choose to use an internal HDD, make sure your laptop can support another internal hard drive.
   
   Also, you must make sure you can install the new HDD to your laptop.
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   Step 2: Download and install Macrium reflect free version

   , If you decided to use an internal HDD, make sure your laptop is turned off, unplugged and remove the battery.
   
   Press the power button for 20 seconds before opening anything.
   
   You don't want to fry the mother board or the hard drive. , For example, if you had 3 partitions, you might want to select only the Windows partition if all you want to do is backup the OS. #Click "clone this disk". , Click "next" at the bottom of the window and then "finish" and it will copy (a.k.a.
   
   Ghost) your HDD. ,
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   Step 3: Plug-in your new HDD to your laptop.

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   Step 4: Once you made sure you have enough room on the new HDD

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   Step 5: open Macrium reflect free version and only select the partitions of the original HDD you want to keep.

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   Step 6: This will open another window just select the drive you are copying your current HDD to (the new/target HDD).

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   Step 7: Try booting from your new HDD (if you choose to ghost a bootable disk).

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