Question: I am upgrading from a 2TB HDD that has my Windows 10 OS to a 2TB SSD: (https://www.newegg.ca/western-digital-blue-2tb/p/N82E16820250093?Item=N82E16820250093).
I plan on using Macrium Reflect to clone the drive.
Wondering if there are any risks?
Will I still be able to boot from both drives in case the need arises?
Should I do anything to prepare my HDD before the cloning?
Answer:
But do I have to wipe the old drive? Can’t I just keep it as is?
Having 2x semi identical OS drives is not usually good idea. I’ve seen too many cases where it somehow boots up from the old drive, and the user is left confused.
One case took us 2-3 days to figure out why, from almost exactly this situation.
User had cloned from old drive to new, and left the old drive in there. Forgot about it.
6 months later, boot up…what the…?
System looked just like it did long ago.
“Where’s my stuff?!?!?”
He was thinking virus, or some malicious update from MS….
Turns out, the SATA data cable to the new drive went bad, and the system just dropped down to the next option in the boot order, the old drive. That had not been touched in 6 months.
Unless you’re purposely doing a dual boot, and you know why, wipe that old drive clean once you’re sure everything is working from the new drive.