If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration) If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.ĭisconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSDĭownload and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)

Start Reflect, take the ‘Other Tasks’ menu option and select ‘Create a bootable Rescue CD’ The wizard opens and In the wizard window, select ‘ Windows PE 2.0' and click ‘Next’.Specific steps for a successful clone operation:.

We need to create an image of the bootable CD so we can transfer the contents to the USB stick.

Use DiskPart to set the partition on the USB drive 'Active'.

Note: If you receive a message saying ‘Windows was unable to complete the format’ then in some cases the format has actually finished and this message can safely be ignored. It’s best to leave the ‘Quick Format’ option un-checked.

Make sure that FAT32 or NTFS is selected as the file system.

Open ‘My Computer’, right click on your USB drive and select properties.

Make sure your USB stick is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. In this tutorial I'll show you the simple steps required to create a USB stick that boots into the Macrium Reflect Windows PE Rescue Environment.

The partition boot sector is created when the file system is formatted. The BCD is used to boot Windows PE and all flavours of Windows with the Vista kernel and later. Windows Vista/7 creates different partition boot sector code that's compatible with the Boot Configuration Data ( BCD). The partition must be formatted using Windows Vista/7.

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