Recovery of backup to new M.2 SSD card confusion?
Ineed to install a new M.2 SSD card (system drive C) into a Win 10 computer as the old one died. I have a recent backup to perform the recovery to that M.2SSD card.
In the past if I needed to install a new hard drive (including SSD SATA types). I would initialize and format the new hard drive using an external drive dock and/or another running computer. Then install that new initialized/formatted drive in the dead computer, and perform a recovery using my TI rescue flash drive app and was good to go.
I'm confused when it comes to performing a recovery to the new M.2 SSD card. Does this M.2 SSD card need to be initialized and formatted in Windows before I can do my recovery of my backup? If so how does one do the initialization/formating if you only have the one computer available that can't boot, that has the M.2 SSD capability, and no other running M.2 SSD capable computer to use?
You need to install the new M.2 SSD card in your computer then boot the computer from the Acronis Rescue Media in UEFI mode to perform the recovery of your backup to the new M.2 SSD.
IanL-S wrote:It should not need to be initialised in Windows first. You can initialise the M.2 drive in the recovery media by using the Add Drive tool.
Ian
That's exactly what I wanted to know!!!!
Thanks...….
Bob P.
Steve Smith wrote:You need to install the new M.2 SSD card in your computer then boot the computer from the Acronis Rescue Media in UEFI mode to perform the recovery of your backup to the new M.2 SSD.
I assume that you also mean exactly as Ian stated above that I would need to initialize the new drive from the boot media before I recover my backup to it.
Bob P.
Bob, you will only need to use Add new disk in the rescue media if the drive hasn't already come pre-formatted and isn't recognised as a valid target for recovery. Otherwise, boot from the rescue media, select your backup image and your target for where to recover it and hit proceed.
Steve Smith wrote:Bob, you will only need to use Add new disk in the rescue media if the drive hasn't already come pre-formatted and isn't recognised as a valid target for recovery. Otherwise, boot from the rescue media, select your backup image and your target for where to recover it and hit proceed.
Do most new drives (mechanical, SSD, and M2.3 SSD) come preformatted?
I'm asking as I have always over the years using Acronis TI initialized and formatted any new drive before I installed it in a Windows system and recovered my backup to it using the rescue media
Thus to clarify, a new drive, mechanical or SSD, has a low level format which is good enough for ATI rescue media to transfer the backup to, which in turn creates the correct partitions and format on the new drive?
Bob, my understanding is that new drives do come already formatted though the scheme may depend on size and purpose, i.e. some larger drives may come formatted as exFat. You would need to check the new drive to see what format has been used or not.
Each "new" drive may or may not be initialized - it's up to the manufacturer.
Most of the new INTERNAL drives (not usb) I have received, if they are truly new and not a return that was re-packaged, need to be initialized first. This is not the same as formatting, which is the next step that puts the file system type (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, etc) onto the disk. Initialization is simply the conversion of the disk type as either legacy (MBR) or UEFI (GPT). Once initialized, at that point it should be selectable as a source or destination disk in Acronis rescue media and does not need to be formatted - the formatting will automatically happen during the restore process.
Popped in the new M.2 card, and restored the backup with ease!!!
Thanks to everyone that responded.
Bob P.
Excellent news! Thanks for the update.