what you guys got another video on how
to migrate windows to another drive or
new drive for free now the other day i
put in a new drive in this little
uh tiny micro pc and some people said
could you show us how to uh migrate the
data from one drive to another so i used
one of the western digital blue uh nvme
drives so i'm going to be going from an
ssd to an nvme but you could use a small
uh tiny hard drive which is like a
mechanical drive to go to an nvme or an
ssd to an nvme or vice versa it doesn't
really matter
so we're going to get this into the pc
and what i'm going to do is boot up and
i'll show you how to do it for free
with the piece of software it's pretty
straightforward easy to do doesn't need
a lot of experience but it's very useful
to know so i've got the drive all in now
and we're going to be copying the data
from this ssd to the new nvme that i've
got in here but like i said it could be
a hard drive in there two and a half
inch hard drive to an nvme if you wanted
to
uh basically clone your data across like
that so let's go ahead and put this back
up and get it up and running and i'll
show you the software i'm going to be
using here now before people say in the
comments section why didn't you use this
software this is just a tutorial on how
to use a free piece of software to
migrate all your data across or clone
your data across
if you use different software let me
know in the comments section i'll be
nice to read your comments about what
software you use so here we have 120 gig
ssd in here you can't see our nvme drive
yet because it needs to be populated so
what we're going to do is initialize the
disk and you can choose mbr or gpt i'm
going to go gpt here and quickly click
ok here and once that's done you should
see the drive populated so let's go
ahead and click ok and this will then
get the drive ready so you can see how
dedicated space here we need to create a
new simple volume so you can right click
on here i can do this in the software
which i'm going to be using but i just
want to show you this as well so you get
best of both worlds here just go ahead
and click next
and you can see here i'm going to use
the whole drive here so click next again
give it a drive letter and we can give
this a label if we want to we're going
to erase over this anyway so it doesn't
really matter i'm just going to call
this nvme so i can see what drive is and
that way you're not going to get
confused or mixed up so let's go ahead
and put nvme in here and click next
and finish and that will then format the
drive and get it ready and now we can
see the drive is available for use now
we want to migrate our disk 1 to disk 0
here so we're going to be migrating all
of our operating system and data across
from one drive to another so let's go
ahead and get some software and i'll
show you how to do this now again there
is other software available which you
can use quite a few different ones mini
partition wizard is a pretty decent
piece of software but their latest
versions are paid versions and you have
to pay to do this particular task but if
you type mini partition wizard old
version inside search you will see we're
looking for version 10 here version 10
is still free and you can still download
it and basically you once you download
this and install it it will give you
that option to
you know migrate your operating system
across to a new ssd or a new hard drive
now i'm going to upload this file to
virustotal just to show you the file is
completely safe it's from minitool
partition wizard it's just an older
version of their software they have got
newer versions out like i've already
said but these are now paid versions
with this particular feature so if you
want to use another piece of software
you can do i prefer to use this method
here it's pretty straightforward and
easy and i wanted to show you how to do
it so let's go ahead you can see the
certification here is for the mini
partition wizard company it's all
registered to them so it's all safe to
use
it's just a little bit outdated so let's
go ahead and install this mini partition
wizard 10
and we'll say yes to the user account
control and get this installed on the pc
you can see here it's only free for home
use so you can only use this as for home
use if you're a business you have to buy
it and that's what you have to do so
let's go ahead and accept their terms
conditions here click next go next again
and get it installed next and create a
desktop icon yeah why not and then we
can then get this installed on the
system let's go ahead and launch the
program it's going to take you to their
website and we don't want any of that
stuff so let's move on to opening up the
actual application so here we are with a
mini tool partition wizard free 10.1
it's the older version but it has plenty
of good options available in this
version whereas in the latter versions
they have become behind a paywall and
you have to pay for them so let's go
ahead and open this up full screen
and what we're interested in here is the
migrate os 2 ssd or hd
but first we're going to prep the drive
and get it ready now i know i've already
showed you how to create a simple volume
so we can actually see the drive but you
can see our nvme drive here which we've
got it labeled and what i'm going to do
is going to delete all of the uh
partitions on here i know i've just
created them but i just wanted to show
you that on windows as well so what i'm
going to do is select our disk which is
disk one which is our
new nvme and i'm going to delete all of
the
uh partitions and then i'm going to
apply this and say yes and it will go
ahead and remove all of that information
the reason why we're doing that because
we're going to clone
our information from disk 2 to disk 1.
so now what we need to do is highlight
disk 2 and we're going to go up to
migrate os to ssd or hd so whether
you've got a ssd in here or hard drive
you can still use this feature
now we have two options option a i would
like to replace my system disk with
another hard disk
or we can do option b which is i would
like to move my operating system to
another hard disk and keep the original
hard disk in my computer
you choose which option suits you i'm
going to go for option a i would like to
replace my system disk with another hard
disk so i'm going to go with that option
click next and there we go we need to
now choose our destination so i'm going
to choose my new destination which is
disk 1. this is going to be my
unallocated
drive for my nvme drive this is where i
want to put all my data onto which is my
operating system and all my data so
let's go ahead and select that now we
can fit partition to the entire disk
this means it's going to fill the whole
disk up and there'll be no unallocated
space for the space that's left behind
that is not being used if you don't want
to use that option you can choose copy
my partitions without resize or you can
choose whatever options you want
available on that screen here so i'm
going to leave the fit partitions to the
entire disk and that's what we're going
to do here
so let's go ahead and click on next here
and we can now click
on the finish button so to boot from a
disk new disk the computer needs to
configure the bios settings make sure
that new disk is configured as default
boot disk so let's go ahead and click
finish
and what we need to do is apply this
option now to make it uh do the actual
task that we've just set it to so let's
go apply and this will then start the
process
now i would always advise you to make
sure you've got backups of all your data
before you do anything like this because
if something goes wrong you could end up
losing all your data that goes without
saying you may get this message coming
up here which says operation uh copy
partition cannot complete because the
drive is being used now that's because
we are sitting here on the desktop in
our windows operating system and it
can't continue
so you've got three options you can
either cancel the operation or close the
program and click retry button i'm going
to do option a which is restart your pc
and mini tool partition wizard will
automatically finish the rest of the
pending jobs so let's go ahead and
restart now it will restart your pc if
you've got any updates or anything like
that it's going to go ahead and do all
of these here and we'll just let that
continue i will speed this process up
you'll get the restart going and you
will see a black screen and it will come
up with welcome to partition wizard
partition wizard will start in a second
and there we go i will speed this
process up it's basically going to copy
all of our partitions our source
partitions our drive letters and stuff
like that so it's going to copy all this
stuff across it does take a bit of time
this could take a fair bit of time if
you have a lot of data there's not a lot
of data on of this system but if your
drive is quite large and there's a lot
of data on it it needs to be copied over
to your new drive so that can take some
time so be patient and don't rush it
just let it do its thing
now mine is pretty much finished because
there's hardly any data on here it's
copied all of the stuff over it's doing
a few windows updates in the process
and basically all i need to do now is
let this get to the desktop and we
should see our new drive with all our
data on there and you can see my account
is already here and this is my new 500
gigabyte nvme drive we're booting up to
here so let's go ahead and let that get
to the desktop and there we are we're at
the desktop now on our new nvme drive
it's copied all of our stuff over and we
can take a look here if we go into this
pc you should now see there is our 500
gig drive but it has left our system
reserve
uh visible here but that's not a problem
we can make that hidden and i'll show
you how to do that as well it's a good
opportunity to show you how to do these
sort of things so let's now
show you basically what else you can do
to
get your data off your previous drive if
you wanted to if you've got stuff on
there or maybe you want to finish off
that drive and prepare it for use in
this machine so let me go ahead and open
up minitool
again going to go into the
partition wizard here
and basically what we're going to do is
take a look at our drives we can see
here the drive doesn't have a drive
letter it's made it hidden and that's
because we're not using this drive
anymore but if you do want to use it
what you can do is right click on here
and change drive letter
and basically give it a new drive letter
this is our new drive and drive
disk 2 is our old drive
so let's go ahead and prep this and get
this ready
so what i'm going to do here is i'm
going to right click here and you can
literally
change letter and this will give it a
drive letter and make it visible or you
can go down the left-hand panel here and
change drive letter here or you can do
it inside windows i'm going to give this
a drive letter of zed and basically
click apply up in the top left click yes
click ok and that will now make that
drive visible to me
so what i can do is i'll show you
quickly in this pc there we have our
drive here and this will have all of our
information and data on it but i'm going
to be erasing all of this and making
this my backup drive so let's go ahead
and i'll show you how to do that and
prep all that it's pretty
straightforward go back into mini
tool partition wizard
and all we need to do here is highlight
the whole disk
which will be disk 2. so click this two
here and what we can do is delete all of
the partitions like we did before
i'm just gonna do this now
now we haven't got any data on here it's
all on our new drive and i'm what i'm
going to do here now is i'm going to
create a new
uh partition so let's go ahead and
select unallocated
create new partition i'm going to use
the whole drive give it a name i'm going
to call this one backup
and now we can click ok
and once that's done we can apply this
and this will now apply and get that
drive ready
there we go very simple
and now once we've done this we can
apply that
and now we've got our
old drive used as a backup drive
let me just quickly go back into this pc
and you can now see in this pc we have
the backup drive which is 120 gigabytes
now still need to hide this
uh system reserve you should never leave
these visible and it's not for use it's
for system reserve stuff so let's go
ahead
and sort this out right now so i'm going
to go back into
minitool partition wizard here open this
back up one more time i'm going to go
back over to where it says system
reserve this is our partition and i'm
going to change the drive letter click
on this one here
and you can see
new drive letter none and i'm gonna
leave this okay and then we can apply
this and it will take away the drive
letter and then the drive will be hidden
and that will be it
so now we can go back to this pc and
that's exactly how we want it all done
all finished
everything's ready so we've got our new
drive with our operating system and data
on it and we've got our old drive which
is now wiped
ready for backups and stuff like that
onto that drive so very simple and easy
to do
free to use if you want to use this
method you can do it's just another way
of doing things people always ask me why
are you doing it this way why don't you
do it this way and at the end of the day
you can use it whatever software you
like and do it whatever way you want i'm
just showing you options and other ways
of doing things let me know in the
comments section below
what software you use whether you're
using clonezilla whether you're using
macro reflect acronis or any of these
software that you can use if you want to
see some sort of other videos on this
topic then let me know in the comments
section also you can now see that the
software that we're using here is now a
paid software if you want to upgrade
that software you can do to the latest
versions you can see here the pro
version has an annual subscription and
it's 59
and you will then be able to create the
same thing that we've done here on a
paid version but you'll be paying for
that every year personally i will just
use this do what i need to do and
uninstall the software i don't need to
leave it on the system and that job is
now done you can't use the bootable
media version on the free version here
on this older version or on the newer
versions if you pay for it you will get
access to those features now i've used
mini tool partition wizard for many
years and over those years i've seen
many features go beyond the paid feature
which is quite sad to see but
unfortunately it's a business i suppose
and they have to make money i'll leave
the link on my website if you want to
grab it anyway that's going to be about
it for this video just want to say a
quick shout out to all my youtube
members who join my youtube members
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mike bigness pc repair tech albert
houston jedi buddhist geo sam and welsh
tony one thanks again for your support
guys have a lovely weekend and i sure
catch you in the next video bye for now
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