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Full tutorial video :
https://youtu.be/NBBxVUcci7I
If you want to clone your existing Windows / C drive into a new bigger size disk for free, this tutorial will show you how to use open source Clonezilla to transfer all the data including booting information step by step. So by following this tutorial, you will have exact clone of your disk with including booting and partition information and if disk size is bigger, with bigger disk size. I will also show you how to fix and overcome potential problems during this process and will give you a lot of tips. Moreover, I will show you how to verify whether all the data was perfectly and accurately cloned or not from previous disk via my self developed software.
In this video I have cloned my older Netac NVMe SSD 2TB C drive into newer Samsung SSD 990 PRO NVMe with Heatsink 4TB. Making the workflow smooth took my a lot of time over a day. So with this tutorial, by following step by step, you will save huge time.
Also I have explained how to solve the problem of not be able set disk booting priorities. If you are also not able to set disk boot priorities like me due to VMD setup, follow this tutorial to solve this issue. If your boot option priorities is grayed out / disabled, then this video will explain solution.
Bit-By-Bit Disk & File Verification Software In C#, Fully Multi-Threaded, With Full Source Code — Verify Disk Clone
Download Verify All Of The Cloned Files Software
https://www.patreon.com/posts/76398813
Clonezilla is an open-source suite of disk cloning, disk imaging and system deployment utilities.
Download Clonezilla
https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
Rufus is a free and open-source portable application for Microsoft Windows that can be used to format and create bootable USB flash drives or Live USBs.
Download Rufus
https://rufus.ie/downloads/
Download Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/
0:00 Introduction to how to bootable clone your C drive into a new hard drive / disk / SSD
0:40 How to download and install Clonezilla
1:15 How to burn Clonezilla ISO into a bootable USB via using Rufus
2:20 How to start computer with booting from Bios to start Clonezilla from USB
2:36 Which option of Clonezilla to start it in the first starting screen
2:46 Select Clonezilla live VGA with large font and To Ram
3:08 All steps of Clonezilla cloning process starting from Start Clonezilla screen
5:04 The advanced parameter that we are going to set to expand our initial disk size to be same as the new bigger disk size
5:30 Select partition table proportionally
5:54 One final time check and verify you have selected accurate source disk and target disk
6:35 Whenever you are watching this tutorial it will be valid and working and here why
6:54 My cloning speed
7:11 Extremely crucial step that you need to do after cloning has been completed
8:01 Extremely crucial setup that you have to do in the bios before going into Windows with both of original and cloned disks are in the system
8:19 I am not able to set my disk boot priority because I have to use VMD setup
8:29 How to solve if you can’t set drive priorities setup problem after disk cloning
8:59 Windows has started after disk cloning and both original and new disk mounted on the computer
9:16 How to set back online the older disk in Windows
9:43 How to verify integrity of the cloning process & verify all cloned files
10:43 How to compile file verification software exe yourself
10:54 How to set source and target disk for file verification and verifying cloning integrity
11:42 Explanation of how the verification software works and what each thing means
12:58 If the bytes non-matching file count is 0, that means entire disk was perfectly cloned
13:20 How to delete older C drive partitions and format it so there won’t be any confliction
13:40 How to delete disk partitions on Windows by using DiskPart
15:06 How to initialize and format disk after doing diskpart clean to delete all partitions
15:36 Speed testing of Netac NVMe SSD 2TB and Samsung SSD 990 PRO NVMe with Heatsink 4TB
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