Posted on 05/02/2017 11:02:09 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
Never say never! This is, in fact, possible with Macrium Reflect Free. I did it back in January when my system disk failed. It was a 250GB spinning disk, and I successfully stored a Macrium image file to a 240GB solid state drive.
When I first tried it, Reflect complained about the size difference. But I did an online search and found out that accomplishing this task is indeed possible, but not using the Macrium menu choices. It involves a drag and drop operation which brings up some sub-menu choices that don't appear in the normal menu structure.
Obviously, the size of the image backup needs to be small enough to fit the new drive, but it most certainly does work...
Tried both of them and so far no glory.
Working on it....
As I recall, the original 25 digit COA number would still work on next install. All the new number did was to change the hash that is generated by the serial numbers of the 5 main hardware pieces. After that a plain install with the original number would work.
Same here, I also use it for my backups.
yeah i tried all that- still couldn’t get it working- tried a few other programs that were sposed to work- couldn’t get them to work either-
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