Performs cloning of HDD to SSD, restarts several times before failure.
Performs cloning of HDD to SSD, restarts several times before failure.
I'm working with a 1 TB SATA spinning hard drive for your grandparents' setup and attempting to transfer it to a 500 GB SATA SSD. The process keeps looping through clones, sometimes booting twice before encountering an error that prompts a reboot and device selection. I've tried using a Windows 10 installation drive but encountered issues with the Acer display.
Usually you need a drive with equal or greater capacity for cloning. Some software can shrink the image to fit a smaller drive, but this doesn’t always function correctly. If possible, use a 1TB or bigger storage device. The type of drive (HDD or SSD) isn’t important as long as it matches the size of the original drive being cloned. This might fix the issue, so check if you have one that fits.
It depends on the partition size of the original drive rather than the amount of data or available space. This impacts the MBR and may cause issues later, even if it functions initially. Use a drive with the same or bigger partition size than the source. I can't ensure success, but testing it is worth trying if possible.