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Hi All,

I have a NUC8i5, it currently has a Samsung 256gb NVME, I'm attempting to add in a Samsung 1tb NVME. I have an external NVME enclosure. 

I've tried the clone within Windows and from the bootable USB. Both clones appear to be successful (UEFI/GPT). However the new drive fails to boot (goes into windows repair and doesn't fix it). 

Any thoughts? I read this posting, but nothing seemed to help forum.acronis. com/forum/acronis-true-image-2019-forum/nvme-upgrade-boot-failure (you'll need to correct that space before "com")

Thank you

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m b, welcome to these public User Forums.

The answer here is not to clone to the larger NVMe M.2 drive when it is in the external enclosure as this introduces new hardware that can prevent it from booting.

Treat your system as if it is a laptop and always put the target drive internally and the source one in the external enclosure.

Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.

Note 2: Please make a full disk backup of your working source drive <<<BEFORE>> doing anything else with cloning.