Greetings, I have a small SSD I've using as my boot drive for a while, and it is beginning to degrade. I want to clone it to an existing NVME drive, but this is one level further than I typically go. How do I go about it?
#Drive cloning
ember maple
crude charm
Somewhat depends on what slots you have available, but assuming you are able to plug both drives into the PC at the same time, the process should be fairly simple.
Free up space on new SSD
Shrink existing partitions in disk management
Download cloning tool of choice (I like marcium reflect)
Select all the partitions in the source drive
Set the new drive as the target
ember maple
Somewhat depends on what slots you have available, but assuming you are able to ...
Why shrink the partitions?
crude charm
That's assuming you have stuff on the new drive that you don't want to delete
glacial viper
Generally agree here - nothing really complicated but just copying folders and files will not work xD
ember maple
Yep, just wanted to check before I bricked my computer. Once it's done cloning, how do I go about transferring what drive it boots from?
Also, Macrium Reflect is, apparantly, no longer available
I am using """Macrium X"""
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ember maple
Generally agree here - nothing really complicated but just copying folders and f...
I have successfully cloned the drive, and now I’m fucking with the boot order. I’m trying to see if it will boot off of the new cloned partition
But there is no apparent NVMe drive in the boot order
glacial viper
Yep, just wanted to check before I bricked my computer. Once it's done cloning, ...
You need to get into the bios.
There should be two entries for "Windows Boot Manager"
at best just disconnect the old drive and reconnect it while it's booting
ember maple
You need to get into the bios.
There should be two entries for "Windows Boot Man...
There is no Windows boot manager, there is a boot category with fixed boot order priorities and another that all it does is allow me to change from UEFI to CSM
If it helps the BIOS type is MSI Click 6
Alright, I did find the individual drive boot priority… unfortunately, changing it to the desired drive did make it boot from that drive
crude charm
Unfortunately? Isint that what you wanted?
glacial viper
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Do turn off csm and "legacy boot"? Enable secure boot and tpm while you're at it
ember maple
Typo on my part, didn’t
Vey crucial contraction, there
I messed with it a lot more and got it to try and boot, but it failed. My solution I think is instead of doing the partition of existing drive, I’ve just ordered a new drive and I’m going to do a direct clone and try that instead