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so it's finally time to do a video where we are cloning one drive to another and we're going to be using Western Digital Akron as' software it's actually really good welcome back to techy our city ladies and gentlemen this is brian coming back to you guys today with a quick tutorial on how to clone a drive from one to another now the reasons you might want to do this can vary anything from a hard drive that's on its way out and it's performance is lackluster and you want to keep your whole OS the way it is and you want to save a lot of time or you're just simply upgrading to an SSD or in my case you're actually downgrading from an SSD to a hard drive because you want to sell the selected rig and that's what I'm doing so I don't want to keep this SSD because it's really good anyway that being said we're going to get a program called Western Digital Akron as' software and it's a free download and it's very easy to use so let's get on with the tutorial anyway so the first thing you will want to do is head over to the website West noodles web site where you can download the akron estroux image Western Digital Editions software I'll put the link in the description below so you can just directly go there and get it you will need a Western Digital hard drive in order to use this software and it is 260 megabytes in file size so if you got slow internet keep that in mind that it might take a little bit of time to download though it's got different languages there so if you prefer another language you can choose that as well but after you've downloaded it you can then begin to install the program now quickly before we begin the installation I will say make sure you copy all your important files off the destination Drive that's the drive that you're copying all your information to so make sure you do this before you start cloning okay so now we can start installing the software so you just pretty much double click on it click yes and then click install and just also accept the license agreement click Next click Next again and then click proceed and the install takes awhile even on pretty fast computers as well so keep that in mind and we'll just quickly skip to it being installed and then after you've installed it I will stress though quickly make sure that you have backed up all the files on the drive that you're copying the software to however that being said let's move on now so it's pretty much easy once you have installed software open it up and there's an option there called cloned disk and you just click on that so we just click on and disk bang automatic it's easy automatics actually really good gets everything right from the get-go so since this is a tutorial as well I'm just going to be recommending automatic and so you just click Next and then we're on to the next section here where we will pretty much be today as I said in the intro I will be copying my SSD so the SSD is actually the OS drive so that's the source disk so this is the one where your OS is installed on so this is currently your source so you just select that which was the crucial SSD and then we want to copy it to the Western Digital one terabyte drive and that's the destination drive this is the drive that I've backed up and so for this step I will have to get off desktop recording software and I'll have to move over to my camera now to the for the next step so now that we've backed up all our data from our destination disk we can then proceed so basically this next part it will get it ready to clone and so you can see here that it's got the drive ready so it's got my hard disk drive yes I'm copying I'm cloning my SSD to my hard disk drive as I said in the intro though it's probably not a common thing and you can see here the software pretty much gets it all ready for you it will actually fill out the drive as well so it'll fill out all the data and make a bigger petition since the SSD is only 256 gigs compared to the hard drive which is one terabyte it's going to clone that SSD to the hard drive and then it's going to fill out the rest of that space on the same petition so if you have a smaller drive that you're cloning to just keep in mind that you might run into some problems though as we can see here the software is pretty much restarting it's going to go through all the paces of cloning the disk and that's about all there is to it so it's a really easy to use program it's really good really simple and it works perfectly as well so I've cloned two times now and it's worked both times flawlessly so with that being said let's move on now to a conclusion so in conclusion that's all there is to it very easy it's pretty much a few clicks of a button though one thing keep in mind that the destination drive make sure you pull all your important files off at first I go go to keep stressing that and another thing is - you may wish to install chipset drivers reinstall chipset drivers and graphics card drivers that's up to you that's something that I like to do personally just to make sure everything's working perfectly anyways I hope you enjoyed this tutorial if you did please give it a big thumbs up if you have any questions or comments and drop a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can peace out for now bye or environment and so today I'm going to try some real-world conditions touch these parts and see if the computers well the computer still boots up so first up here we have the Seagate hard drive so I'm just going to quickly charge myself put it in the computer see