And you still need a paid version to go from HD to SSD because the free version of Paragon doesn't support that at all.īut I've used the free version for years and figured that the cost of the HDM was minimal, compared to the additional features it adds.
You can sidestep booting from recovery media with the free version by making a disk image in the full Windows program, and then using the full Windows program to restore from the disk image to a drive that is mounted in, say, a dock. (For starters, you have to figure out that restoring a disk image is three separate operations: 1., restoring the boot track, 2., restoring the system partition, and 3., restoring the part that we think of as the C: partition.) But it does work and I have used it several times. It is all GUI, but is Linux based and isn't quite as self-explanatory as the Windows program is.
But it involves first making a disk image, creating a recovery disk (flash drive is easiest), booting from the recovery disk and restoring from the disk image. You can clone (from HD to HD, from SSD to SSD, but not from HD to SSD) with the free version of Paragon Backup. (I did use Magician to tune the OS for SSD after I booted up.) I never cracked the manual and the user interface was mostly self-explanatory. It worked more or less like I expected it to. So I bought a license and used to to clone from my HD to the SSD. The demo version is crippled enough that you can really only use it to see how the GUI of the program works. You can create drive image backups, but you can't create recovery media.
You need to actually buy the program before you can see if it works. The only glitch is the "free demo" version of HDM is crippled and won't clone. I used HDM (Paragon Hard Disk Manager 14) to clone my C: drive to the Samsung SSD. The free version of Paragon Backup that I have been using to make drive images doesn't do this. And it adjusts as needed when going from HD to SSD. With the most important part for me right now is that it can clone (not just make a drive image) from drive to drive. Now that the drive is working I might try a copy of the Paragon Hard Disk Manager 14 Suite to clone my C: drive to the SSD.
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