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Cloning disk from Nvme to Nvme drive - Restart required

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Hi, there

I tried to clone disk from a samsung 970 plus to a Kingston kc3000. I was asked to restart the PC but nothing happened after the reboot.

My system boot via UEFI and I disabled the secure booting in BIOS, the PC just restarts as usual and the destination disk is still empty. 

 

Could you please let me know how I can clone the disk?

 

 

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Tianyu Hu, welcome to these public User Forums.

The core reason why a restart doesn't work for you is because you are attempting to clone your NVMe SSD from within Windows and the restart will launch a small Linux OS kernel environment but this does not have any support for NVMe!

The answer is to create the Acronis 'Simple' version of bootable rescue media and use that to boot the PC then perform the clone.

Note: Please make a full disk backup of the working Samsung 970 SSD to an external storage drive before continuing with doing the clone.  This is your safety net in case of any issues arising or mistakes made!

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 69472: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: how to create bootable media

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.

See forum topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I have documented (with images) the process that I have used multiple times for my own laptops using Backup & Recovery.