#Clone lenovo hard drive to ssd how to#

Clone disks of different size: It's supported to clone larger HDD to smaller SSD, or clone SSD to larger SSD. It can help you clone Lenovo HDD to SSD easily and quickly, and ensure security boot at the same time.

The reason is that if you will be performing an image capture and restore, you'll be performing the latter within Rescue, but even if you're performing a clone, if the new disk doesn't immediately boot, you'll want to boot into that Rescue Media and run the Fix Boot Problems wizard.Īnd lastly, if you perform a clone to the new disk while it's attached via a SATA to USB adapter or something, note that you must install that disk internally before you will be able to boot from it. As for disk cloning software, you could consider using AOMEI Backupper Professional. If you would instead be capturing an image backup to an external drive and restoring it onto the SSD because you don't have a way to attach your source and destination disks simultaneously, then Steps 4 and 5 of that article also apply to the image restore wizard, except the option is called 'Restored Partition Properties' rather than 'Cloned Partition Properties'.Īdditionally, before you perform the disk swap, create bootable Rescue Media onto a flash drive within Reflect and confirm that your system boots from it successfully AND that it can see your internal storage and your external storage if applicable.

#Clone lenovo hard drive to ssd how to#

This is Macrium's KB article about how to clone a disk, and Steps 4 and 5 show how to resize partitions in order to cover cloning to a smaller disk (or a larger disk if you want to upsize partitions as part of the clone itself).

Building on the answer from above, I'm a heavy user of Macrium Reflect, and the Free version will indeed serve your purposes here.