Ok, not sure exact answer to your question It's a pity computer manufacturers don't still supply us with full recovery media. I haven't been able to complete my experiment and don't want to splash out on an SSD unless I am fairly confident of success? Any thoughts or pointers please?ĭo you mean that there is no guarantee of an SSD cloning in general or particularly in the case of a UEFI drive? I should add that the old hard drive that I cloned to was originally MBR format, however the UEFI partition is showing present in disk management and it now appears to be GPT format. I then attempted to install the cloned drive in place of the original drive but realised that the cloned drive is 9.5mm thick, whereas the original drive is only 7mm, so it was not possible to change. After the cloning operation, I switched to legacy BIOS, to see if the cloned drive would boot from USB. There is no facility to backup the other partitions.įirst problem was that Macrium Reflect would not install, saying "Reflect is not able to run on this PC"ĮasUS Todo Backup did install OK and I attempted to clone to an old hard drive, as a test (not splashed out on the SSD yet). The only backup facility provided is Lenovo one key recovery, which only allows backup of the C drive to a USB stick or external hard drive. There is no integrated DVD drive, however a USB DVD drive can be plugged in and booted from in legacy mode.
Secure Boot is currently enabled but can be deselected in the bios.
The laptop has UEFI BIOS that can be changed to legacy mode. I notice from browsing the web that people are having problems cloning 8.1 with UEFI BIOS and wondered if anyone has managed to achieve this? I have cloned three Win 7 laptops to SSD with no problems but have now bought a light Lenovo laptop for travelling which comes pre-loaded with "Windows 8 with Bing" on a 500GB mechanical drive.
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