Use HDD Enclosure to Migrate?

[LewisN]

Hello , im new to disk migration , but im upgrading my pavilion x360 13.3" from HDD to SSD .

i have a spare HDD external enclosure that is SATA III 2.5"  USB 3.0 , can i use this with the SSD to perform the disk migration instead of having to purchase a SATA to usb cable?

[banhien · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes you can, I use external HDD enclosure to clone HDD many times each year.

Regards.

[WAWood]

LewisN

Don't understand what you intend by "disk migration".

I have used external drive to migrate from an HDD to an SDD by cloning the HDD to the external drive, connecting the SDD, and "restoring" the cloned image from the external drive to the SDD.

I also regularly use external drives to image off my internals so I have full image backups for restoration purposes.

I highly recommend that if you're going to do this, then consider using Macrium Reflect.

Macrium Reflect (MR) provides a FREE version that can be used to image and restore partitions or entire drives.

What I recommend is the following:
1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR)
2) Run MR and choose the option: "Create an image of the partition(s) required to backup and restore Windows" to write a full backup to an external drive or USB stick
3) Use the option to create a boot USB stick or CD

My experience is that MR, when using the High Compression option, typically can compress the saved image file to about 50% of the USED space in the OS partition.  This means if you have an 80GB OS partition, and 40GB is used, MR only needs about 20GB to store the image file.

I use this all the time and it typically takes less than 10 minutes to do the image backup and about the same time or less to do a restore.  Plus, MR has the option to Add a Recovery Boot Menu entry.  This allows you then to boot into WinRE, and you can then use that to do a restore -- when you can't boot into Windows!

NOW, you have the means to restore a full working system from the external drive or USB stick in only a few minutes.

Good Luck

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