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Clone disc to larger disc issues

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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."

So I am stumped. Is this software useless? Am I overcomplicating things? Is what I want to do possible? Help!

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Robert, welcome to these public User Forums.

The approach you are looking at in using Backup & Recovery for this migration is the one that I would recommend and use myself.

The core issue here is that you should not be using Acronis Universal Restore to create the rescue media.  AUR is only used after a backup has been restored and then only needed when a different PC is where the restore has been done, i.e. to new hardware (new PC, new motherboard, CPU etc).

When migrating from a SATA SSD to an NVMe M.2 SSD, then the normal Acronis rescue media should be used, but you need to check the BIOS boot mode in use by your PC first!  Most NVMe M.2 SSD require that UEFI BIOS boot mode is used but given the 8 year age of the old SSD you may be using Legacy BIOS boot mode here?

To check, run the msinfo32 command in Windows and look at the BIOS mode value shown in the right side panel of the report it produces.  If it does not say UEFI then you have a Legacy boot system.

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

If this is a Legacy system, then the first recommendation here would be to install the new NVMe SSD and leave it untouched (no partitions etc), then boot into Windows to allow any new device drivers etc to be installed as the new hardware is recognised. 
Note: I am assuming you have Windows 10 for native support of NVMe drives (and not Windows 7 which doesn't have that support!).

Once any new device drivers are installed by Windows, then make a new full Disk backup of the old, working SSD (so that the backup includes these changes).

Next, check that you understand how to boot the normal Acronis rescue media on your PC and can do so in UEFI boot mode.  It is best to create the 'Simple' version of the rescue media that uses the Windows Recovery Environment to provide device drivers for WinPE media.

If all the above is good, then you can attempt to restore the Backup image to the NVMe SSD.
Note: I would recommend disconnecting / removing the old SSD before doing the restore to avoid any confusion!

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

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.