I have an ASUS GL552 laptop with a 256GB SSD C drive and a 1TB hdd
I am swapping out the SSD with a larger one.
Can I use macrium to mirror the old SSD C drive and restore the mirrored image to the new larger capacity SSD?
any pros or cons using mirrored image vs clone of the c drive?
Thanks for your help
I upgraded the M.2 SSD in my Dell laptop. I did a full disc image (all partitions) to a USB connected drive (that I use for Macrium disc image backups). I removed the old (256 GB SSD) and installed the new 512GB SSD. I booted the PC with the Macrium bootable rescue disc (actually a bootable USB flash drive) and "restored" the disc image to the new SSD. I might have been able to use clone but I've had 50/50 success with clone and I've had 100% success with the disc image so I used that.
After the restore and the PC was booted with the new SSD, I used Mini Tool Partition Wizard (free version) to recover the full disc size (the disc image or clone only recovers what the size of the original disc "C" partition size).
Best to image. I know it takes another drive to do it, but it is the safest way even though cloning is quicker, but in the big picture imaging is more reliable than cloning.
The other benefit of imaging with Macrium is that this action makes all the files contiguous,making the pc faster.
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