Cloning HDD of Inspiron 5570 to SSD

So far so good. Just one more thing. Remember to disconnect the original drive before booting the system with the new drive. If everything looks good then shutdown and reconnect the old drive then format or continue on to whatever use you have in store for it. Just don't leave Windows on both drives which can cause headaches.

follow this excellent guide by jphughan and you'll be good to go.

https://forum.macrium.com/41700/RE-My-cloned-drive-will-not-boot-windows-10?PageIndex=2#41731

@JOcean: Thanks for the tip. Planning to remove the internal HDD and use it with an enclosure after formatting.

@bacillus1: Thanks for the link. Had moved all of the smaller partitions and then the C: drive in Macrium. Will post a screenshot shortly. Hope it works out. 

Interesting. In the past, I've read that the Samsung Magician software isn't that good for cloning. Maybe things have changed. Good to know..

Thanks for writing, XPS_Man.

@xps8770user  

You Bought a Samsung SSD, you could have used Samsung's data migration software, 

Which not only moves OS to SSD but also formats your old Drive. 

Leaving nothing else for you to do . 

https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/download/tools/

Tried and Tested

Here's a screenshot of the source and destination drives after cloning.

As you can see, the 3 smaller partitions have been cloned first before the larger C: drive. Does it look good to you guys? Thanks again.

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@bacillus1 wrote:

follow this excellent guide by jphughan and you'll be good to go.

https://forum.macrium.com/41700/RE-My-cloned-drive-will-not-boot-windows-10?PageIndex=2#41731

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I could not agree more. It is a well written how to. 

Typing this from a computer cloned with Samsung's cloning software. 

The only Bad part part about this software is, that Destination Disk should be a Samsung SSD 

Most of the Negative reviews on the internet are due to that fact.