how to use macrium reflect with low disk space

#How to use macrium reflect with low disk space upgrade#

But they have some differences in the following.ĭifferent volume types: The dynamic disk contains five types of volumes including simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes (RAID-0), mirrored volumes (RAID-1), and RAID-5 volumes while basic disk is limited to 4 primary partitions or 3 primary plus one extented partition at most. This is mainly due to the peculiarities of dynamic disks themselves.ĭynamic disk (a physical disk initialized for dynamic storage) and basic disk both are disk types for Windows to store data and support MBR and GPT partition style. It seems kind of crazy to spend that much money on software I'm probably only going to use once, and still no guarantee that it will work.ĭisk cloning is not a new concept today, but many users still have some questions about cloning dynamic disks, as in the case above. The paid version does, but the price is too expensive. I downloaded Macrium Reflect, but the free version does not support cloning dynamic disks either. I contacted Crucial via online chat, and was told that the Acronis software cannot clone a dynamic disk, and that I should try software by Macrium or Clonezilla. However, when I started the cloning process, the drive I wanted to clone was grayed out. I downloaded the Acronis True Image cloning software per the instructions on Crucial's website.

#How to use macrium reflect with low disk space upgrade#

I am trying to upgrade the primary drive Crucial MX500 SSD for my Asusg73jw.