4/9/2024 0 Comments Clone hard drive to m.2 ssd![]() ![]() Click on the “Cloned Partition Properties” link to view the properties of the main partition.Under the destination disk, select the “main” partition (currently the last partition in destination disk) to resize it.You will see all partitions but the last appear on the destination disk. Click on the “Copy selected partitions” link on the destination disk.In my case, the last partition size is 852.0 MB. Take note of the size of the last partition because we will need this info below.We’ll copy it later once we have resized the main partition under the destination disk. Under the source disk, unselect the last partition so we won’t copy it.It is the largest partition and is the second to last partition. We want to increase the size of the main partition (usually labeled as the “C:” drive) which contains the Windows operating system. Because the sizes of the two drives are different, we cannot just copy all the partitions as-is.Note: No changes will be made to the source and destination disks until we commit them using the Next button.Delete any existing partitions on the destination disk.Click on the “Select a disk to clone to…” link and select a destination disk.Click on the “Clone this disk…” link that appears under the selected source disk.Run the installed “Macrium Reflect” application. ![]() However, the USB interface would reduce the data transfer rate so cloning would be significantly slower. Alternatively, you could put the drive in a USB enclosure and connect it to the computer. Unselect the two Update options: “Hourly background checks for software updates” and “Daily checks for software updates when Macrium Reflect loads”.Įnsure that the new NVMe SSD drive is installed on the motherboard.After running Macrium Reflect, go to the Help menu and select “Configure Update Check…”.To reduce chance of the the Macrium Service doing something, you can at least disable the update checks: Which means that you must manually stop the service and set it to manual/disabled every time after you launch Macrium Reflect. Worst, even if you stop that service or set it to manual or disabled state, Macrium Reflect (when you run it) will start the service again and set it to Automatic. Macrium Reflect installs a Windows update service which automatically runs. There is usually a price paid for being free and Macrium Reflect Free is not an exception. Once the installation completes, you should see a “Macrium Reflect” shortcut on the desktop.(If it doesn’t, you can run the setup file manually.) The download agent should execute the downloaded setup file automatically.(I downloaded a file named “v_reflect_setup_free_圆4.exe”). Run the download agent and click on the “Download” button to download Macrium Reflect Free.Paste that link into the browser to download the Macrium Reflect Download Agent (“ReflectDLHF.exe”). You will get an email from Macrium containing the download link.Check the “I need a personal free license” option and enter your email address.Toward the bottom, under “Backup at Home”, click on the “Download Free” link in the “Reflect 8 Free” section.Browse to the Macrium Reflect web page.To disable BitLocker, run “Manage BitLocker”, select the main “C:” drive, and click “Turn off BitLocker”. The problem was finally solved after I disabled and then re-enabled BitLocker. I had to do this every time I booted the computer. In the past, when booting from a cloned BitLocker-enabled drive, BitLocker would require me to manually input the recovery key because the drive signature had changed. I recommend disabling BitLocker before cloning the drive. Note: The instructions should also work for cloning to and from non-SSD drives. We’ll also handle cloning from a smaller to larger capacity drive and repairing the new drive so it can boot up successfully. (Live or “on the fly” disk cloning allows one to use Windows while it is being cloned.)īelow are instructions on how to clone from a SATA SSD to a NVMe SSD using Macrium Reflect Free. Thankfully, I found Macrium Reflect Free, which supported live disk cloning and also included a boot repair tool. Previously, I would use the Clonezilla utility but this time, I decided not to use it because it was not user-friendly and did not take care of resulting boot issues (on the new drive). Rather than re-install Windows 10 from scratch, I decided to clone from the old drive to the new drive. ![]() So I decided to upgrade my Samsung 860 EVO 250GB 2.5 inch SATA SSD drive to a Crucial P2 500GB NVMe M.2 SSD drive. Supposedly NVMe drives, which look like small circuit boards, are even faster than SATA SSD drives. I discovered that my Dell Optiplex 3050 desktop’s motherboard supported a NVMe M.2 SSD drive.
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