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m.2 NVME Requirements

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What are the requirements to restore OS partition to stock NVME m.2? This is from a tib archive. It has the os (c) MBR (I don't know if I can used that since drive was formatted gpt. Is it as easy as a restore to existing OS? Many thanks for any insight regarding this.

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Cynthia, welcome to these public User Forums.

NVMe M.2 SSD drives normally require that the OS boots using UEFI and has GPT partitioning, plus are best supported by Windows 10 rather than older versions.

The best recommendation for restoring an existing OS using MBR partitions from a .tib archive file would be to do the following:

  1. Confirm that your computer supports UEFI / GPT in the BIOS - this is required.
     
  2. Create the ATI rescue media on either a USB stick or else DVD disc.
     
  3. Test booting your computer from the rescue media in UEFI boot mode - again required.
     
  4. Install the NVMe M.2 SSD (if not already done) and remove any other installed drives.
     
  5. Boot the rescue media (UEFI mode) with your backup drive connected for the .tib file.
     
  6. Click on Tools in the offline ATI application and use the Add new disk option to prepare the NVMe M.2 SSD as GPT leaving the space on the drive as Unallocated.
     
  7. Recover your .tib backup image as a Disk recovery to the NVMe M.2 drive and confirm that the recovery is successful.
     
  8. Close the ATI application to trigger a restart of the computer, remove the rescue media and external backup drive, and check if Windows will start correctly?
    Note: if Windows fails to boot, then you may need additional drivers for the M.2 drive.  If you can identify these, then use the Acronis Universal Restore tool to try to inject the drivers by creating the AUR boot media with the drivers, then boot from that media.

All of the above is making assumptions that you are using ATI 2016 per this forum and that you have Windows 10 as the OS in the backup .tib archive file.