Clone advice requested
New desktop with 2 TB 7200rpm HDD, presently 60GB in use
Installing a 270GB SSD on Monday
Using ATI 2017, with plans to clone the 2TB "C" drive to the new 270GB SSD
is it as simple as it seems in the menus? Will I boot from a drive different than "C" from this point on?
Do I have to go into BIOS to tell the machine to boot from the SSD (will it be designated "C" drive after cloning?)
Do I have the opportunity to format the 2TB HDD and use it as a "D" drive?
All advice is welcomed, as I am braver than I am knowledgable.
Mike


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I agree that you should make a full backup before doing the clone operation (I always do so). Things have a habit of going wrong at the worst possible time.
Ian
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Four attempts at cloning all ended with what looked like success, but would not boot into windows.
1) Disconnected the existing drive, 2) disconnected the ethernet cable, 3) used ACER recovery USB to "restore" the new SSD to factory setting, 4) connected my WD external drive with Acronis backup image, 5) booted with Acronis Recovery Disk, 6) restored image to "new" SSD.
Worked perfectly
Weird path, but I am delighted with the experience and outcome
thank you to all who increased my knowledge
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I'm glad too!
Yeah, cloning can be more finicky than backup and restore and is my preferred method. Clone is supposed to be the easy path, but because of some of the limitations (perhaps a dirty sector on one of the drives, not really sure), I go the backup and restore route. It's worked great and I feel safer having the backup anyway. Been a few posts here where folks jumpped head first into a clone without a backup and some have actually cloned the wrong direction - no good if you don't have anything to revert too!
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