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Hello there, here's what I am trying to do and the problems I am facing when doing it.

I have a Crucial 500gb SATA SSD. Little long in the tooth now, 8 years old. I bought a Crucial P2 1TB NVmE today. All installed, ready to go.

What I'd like to do is to clone my C Drive (on the SSD) to the NVmE, but rather than have it remain a 500gb partition, use the entire 1TB space.

Now I read the best way to do this was to use the back up tools to make a disc back up (which I did, to my storage drive, a 2TB Toshiba HDD) and then use the Rescue Tools to restore that back up to the new NVmE, which would allow me to make that new C drive take up the entire 1TB of the NVmE.

However, here's the problem. I have the back up, I verified, I downloaded and ran the Universal Restore Media Builder. I've tried a USB Stick (2GB one, says it only needs 100mb of space). I've tried a CD-R. I've tried different settings (both linux and Windows PE). It ALWAYS fails to create the media.

"Code: 262,147(0x00040003)
LineInfo: 0x37DCAD4EE29F5B6; File: d:\572\builder\lib\fdd_builder.cpp;
Function: RemovableBuilder::BurnMedia; Line: 949;

Module: media_builder_aur_vsa64_28725
Message: Error occurred while writing to the file."

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Stephan, welcome to these public User Forums.

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

However, here's the problem. I have the back up, I verified, I downloaded and ran the Universal Restore Media Builder. I've tried a USB Stick (2GB one, says it only needs 100mb of space). I've tried a CD-R. I've tried different settings (both linux and Windows PE). It ALWAYS fails to create the media.

You should not be using the Acronis Universal Restore media - that is not needed when just restoring a backup to the same physical computer!  AUR is intended to be used AFTER a successful restore to a new / different computer.

Create the Acronis standard rescue media using the 'Simple' option to create Windows PE media on your 2GB USB stick using files taken from your Windows Recovery Environment.

Note: if you have not already done so, install the new NVMe SSD in your computer and boot into Windows normally to let it find and install any new device drivers that may be needed before creating the Acronis media.

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

It is possible that the restore to the larger drive may not use the whole drive - this is often caused because there is a Windows Recovery partition located at the end of the smaller SSD that Acronis doesn't / can't move!  This can be easily resolved after the restore is complete by using a partition manager application to move the Recovery partition and resize the OS partition to expand into the freed space.