Direkt zum Inhalt

Unable to Clone | 128gb M.2 NVMe SSD to 1TB WD SSD

Thread needs solution

Hello!

I'm trying to clone from a 128gb Western Digital PC SN520 NVMe SSD to a 1TB WD Blue 3D NAND SSD, and every time I attempt this, I get a nontop popup, "One or more of your removable disks may not have started at the moment. Click YES to wait for full startup of the devices" regardless of how many times I let it wait, and if I hit "No", it says It's finished with errors. What can I do about this, is there a workaround or another way?

 

I did read on a similar post for the 2018 Edition, that said RAID would not work, and when selecting the source/destination, under Interface, it does say "RAID" under both drives, is there a way to disable RAID in order to clone my drive? 

 

0 Users found this helpful

Matthew, welcome to these public User Forums.

What application are you using here?  Is it ATI 2020 or is it an OEM version of ATI supplied by WD with your new disk drive?

How are you attempting to perform this clone operation?

From your brief description above, it suggests that you are cloning from within Windows, which then requires a restart of the computer to continue the action.  That restart will boot from a temporary Linux based OS environment which has no support for RAID, hence won't find the new SSD.

Personally I have not used cloning with my own M.2 SSD's as I have no suitable adapter to connect 2 with and have no systems with 2 slots for this type of drive, therefore I have always used Backup & Recovery to migrate to a new or larger drive.

The steps in outline are as follows:

  1. Create the Acronis Rescue Media (use the Simple option for WinPE)
  2. Test booting your laptop from the rescue media, ensuring you understand how to boot in UEFI mode and can 'see' your current SSD drive and an external backup drive to hold a full disk backup image.
  3. Make a new full Disk backup of the working SSD to an external drive as a one-off backup action.
  4. Shutdown the PC, remove the current SSD and install the new SSD.
  5. Boot from the Acronis Rescue Media with your backup drive connected.
  6. Recover the Backup from step 3. to the new SSD.
  7. Check the Log messages before exiting from the rescue media (all logs are lost on exit) to check all is OK.
  8. If all ok, disconnect the external drive, remove the rescue media and restart the PC normally from the new SSD.
  9. When you have confirmed all is ok with the new SSD, make a new backup again to include any new device drivers installed for the new SSD.

Note: if your new SSD is larger than the original one, then you may find that ATI has not expanded the C: OS partition to use the full new size of the new SSD.  If so, then this is quite simple to resolve as below:

First, download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software, install this, then use it to move the Windows Recovery partition (that is shown after the C: OS partition) to the end of the available unallocated space. 

Next, resize the C: OS partition to use the available unallocated space.

See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 63295: Acronis True Image 2020: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

I recommend the procedure suggested by Steve Smith - it is the way I do it.