Posted on 06/25/2023 9:46:39 PM PDT by Paul R.
I'm trying to clone a 240 GB SATA SSD to a 500 GB Crucial M.2 NVME drive, this in a Win 10 Pro Dell 3420 desktop machine; the M.2 drive was physically installed earlier this evening. The Crucial cloning software (actually Acronis) finds the new disk just fine. But, just before I ok the setup and begin the cloning, Acronis advises the new disk will be "MBR", even though most advice is to use GPT with SSD's in Windows 8, 10, and 11. Maybe it's just me being tired (long day working outside in serious heat), but I can't figure out how to resolve this. Surely I can't be stuck with MBR on the new disk???
Reformat the new drive as GPT first.
It is Sunday night now, are you still sitting there working on this since Friday night? I’ll have to admit that I’ve been there, done that.
Analog Guy in a Digital World here wishing you good luck and success.
Don’t ya just love how much time you save with a computer?
Yes and think of all the paper that has been saved by this and the modern copy machine printers!
When my last employer went computerized...we were still using lots of paper..not sure paper use has declined. Especially when hard copy reports were generated. And the communication between different systems was always dodgy...forcing us to constantly muck around in the computers looking for current, reliable info.
Disaster loomed with every keystroke.
That always works for my automatic coffee-maker!
From a guy whose VCR is constantly flashing "88:88, 88:88!"
Regards,
>> I’m trying to clone a 240 GB SATA SSD to a 500 GB Crucial M.2 NVME drive
I wouldn’t pollute a new NVME with an older SSD. No room for both in the chassis?
Maybe we can tell them there’s a real apple inside of every Apple Mac...
bttt
Sorry, “ALL”. Put my head down and crashed like a Biden plan to say something sensible, before I got any replies. Will go through these replies...
The existing (apparently brand new) SATA drive will stay as a data drive. The machine has a “SATA 0” and “SATA 2” port (connector) on the MB, “SATA 2” goes to the DVD drive (which I would use, some. Yeah, I know, old school.)
I checked Properties of the M.2 SSD in Windows Disk Management — it is already GPT. So it must be formatted(?)*, but it doesn’t show up in File Explorer. So, do I need to 1st create a “New Simple Volume”? (One of several options Acronis gives, but I’m unsure here... There are several options including RAID 5.)
*I was thinking maybe it’s simply that no drive letter is yet assigned, but I’m not seeing an option to assign one.
Urgghh... I started to wade into that (link). Looks useful. Quite the bit of tech to try to absorb after ~5 hours sleep...
(I don’t drink coffee — Diet Sundrop @ 6 a.m.???)
Thanks - will try to puzzle it out. Can my machine support Legacy +UEFI/CMS boot by enabling the CSM (Compatibility Support Module) in BIOS support? Urgghh...
(Was intending to keep a copy of the OS on the “DATA Disk” in case my hopefully soon to be M.2 boot drive fails at some point. Did this on my old “primary” machine and it was a big help — that one’s C-drive crunched* during a Windows update. So I simply disconnected it and then the data drive (still with the OS on it) automatically became my boot drive too. Later when I had time I installed a new / larger SSD where the boot SSD had been & cloned the OS & programs back over to it.
*I also later reformatted that old 128 GB SSD and it actually tests just fine - I now use it as a “downloads only” drive in another machine.)
“Reformat the new drive as GPT first.”
That would be my recommendation.
It’s already GPT.
Ok, really dumb question here — a “Simple Volume” can have multiple partitions?
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