macrium reflect clone to ssd drive windows 7

“Cloning is copying the source drive exactly as it is, including the device drivers, hidden folders, OS files and settings you saved, to the newer disk drive”. When you clone a disk, you create exact copy of it, this means that whatever is there on the disk now, will be there on the cloned drive so there will be no need to re-install anything, just plug n play.

Whether it is migration from HDD to SSD, HDD to another HDD or a back up of your HDD, cloning is my preferred method because it eliminates the need to re-install programs and simply replacing it will bring about the same results as if nothing has ever happened. On the other hand, Solid State Drive’s (SSDs) have become extremely popular due to their speed, reliability and faster read/write speed, more and more people are switching from their Victorian HDD’s to this era’s SSDs and at the same time, where data is of critical importance many of us would like to back them all up on an external hard disk, and put it in a safe place.

Data is critical and losing it means no business, companies spend billions of dollars to protect data, to back it up, to make it redundant and to protect it from disasters etc. In this guide i will walk you through all the steps to clone your disk but before i do that a brief description will provide more clear understanding on the importance of data and why everyone is progressing towards it’s protection, availability and reliability and on what needs to be done and just how important it is to do this.

Macrium reflect clone to ssd drive windows 7