You'd mainly just want to clone the old partition & dump it into a new partition created on the new SSD.
#How to clone hard drive to ssd with paragon 14 for free
But, everything you're trying to do can be accomplished for free anyway. Re: the main question, personally I'd rather do a clean Win 8 install.
It's a bit insulting you'd even assume something like that, not all of us techs are busy DLing our software off Pirate Bay or using Hiren's boot discs for everything. Wow, really? I certainly don't use pirated software when supporting my clients (or at my full time gig for that matter). I don't know anyone who does support on a regular basis who doesn't use this, so most support technicians must be in a sad state of moral repute. Given the sad state and mindset of people I'll probably be told to, ahem, obtain it some other way, but profiting from piracy is something I'm not comfortable with.Īre there any similar tools or methods that would help me do this? Perhaps even free, but equally easy to use (including fixing BCDs without hassle)?įor guaranteed support, you may need to hold your nose and get off your high horse and use the "restored" version of the Hiren's Boot CD, which includes proprietary tools such as Acronis TrueImage. However, while it includes many useful tools (and even more perhaps not so useful), thus replacing clonezilla, gparted, walking on a live wire with dd, some software of, well, dubious legality and various backasswards methods, the price for proper business edition is rather high for a small business in a proverbial fourth world country, very hard (in fact, impossible) to justify in my paperwork. Please share how do you accomplish such a task: cloning (migrating) a mechanical hard drive of a new laptop with preinstalled Windows 8 (therefore with GPT and Secure Boot) to a smaller SSD.Ĭurrently I have a mind for Paragon Hard Disk Manager which is guaranteed to do the job (using WinPE boot disk).
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