Upgrading family member’s laptop to a SSD. Disk cloning over USB 2.0 is painful. #ssd #diskcloning #familyITguy #macriumreflect

Need #computer advice right now.

The #SSD drive which runs my Windows desktop died & I can no longer #boot (no bios found & it fails SMART).

2nd #HDD hard drive passes #SMART. Need to pay someone to install new SSD drive and Windows. OEM Windows license means $ for another license.

I have a #MacriumReflect image of all the partitions, but it is an image, not a clone. I don't think I can reinstall Windows that way. Would also like to recover any SSD data not backed up to the image which is 1 month old

Above all, I want nothing to impact the 2nd HDD drive which is where the bulk of my data is stored. I have files backup through Thursday. Really really don't want to have to reinstall apps, browser extensions but seems inevitable

Question: What do I need to tell the computer tech specifically to do, and to avoid doing?

#SiliconValley #SanJose #BayArea #ComputerHelp

So… now that Macrium Reflect is no longer going to offer a Free version, what other free pieces of software could I use to replace Reflect? Something FOSS (if one does exist) could also be nice!

All I really need is incremental backups (which Reflect Free doesn’t have but if there are alternatives with it, I’ll probably switch immediately lol).

#backup #recovery #macriumreflect #foss

Ah, shit. #MacriumReflect