Trying to upgrade OS from 1 tb HDD to 2 tb SSD.

One drive in the computer, the other drive in the docking station, use Macrium Reflect free.

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1) With the old HDD in the laptop, use a disk imaging program (Macrium Reflect Free is good) to create an image of the entire hard disk. Be sure to copy all the partitions needed: The 100MB System partition, the unformatted MSR partition (16 or 32MB), the C: partition, and the Recovery partition. You can also copy any additional data partition(s) that are on the drive if you want. Save this image file to an external hard drive.

2) Be sure you have made a Boootable Recue Media USB Thumbdrive with the imaging software. You will need this to complete the project.

3) Shut down the laptop and remove the HDD. Install the new SSD drive. It can be unallocated (blank).

4) Connect the external storage drive to the laptop. Insert the Rescue Media thumb drive in the laptop and start it. Immediately use the Boot Menu options F-key to get to the boot menu. Choose the thumb drive to boot from, and the imaging software will start.

5) Restore the image you took previously from the external hard drive to the SSD. When the restore is complete, remove the USB devices and restart.

The system should start up as normal.

If that docking station with the cloning is like my Eaxer it cannot be connected to any computer, put both drives in it, original/source in front slot and destination in rear slot and start. Have run into issues if there's file errors on the source, correct them first with Error Checking, the cloning is Byte for Byte. There will be unallocated space when going from small to larger that can be used as a storage partition, set up in Disk Management when Windows is running.

The fastest solution is to clone the HDD to the SSD.
Put the SSD on the docking station, boot the Laptop, install the Macrium Reflect Free and select the laptop HDD as source and the SSD as target. As the SSD is twice the HDD size you must set to enlarge C: partition.
When done, shutdown the laptop, remove the charger and battery and replace the HDD with the SSD.

Winuser said:

I always had a problem trying to clone a drive to a new drive with Macrium Reflect. I find making a image then restoring it to the new drive works better.

Can't remember the last time I used the cloning feature.