Clone my D and E HDD drive on to a SSD
I’m using ACRONIS True Image 2020 for the first time, I was able to clone a laptop 1TB HDD to a SSD and use it in my laptop with no problem.
I have tried this with both the within Windows and the acronis bootable media.
My system was built by me and I am trying to clone a 1TB hard drive to a 1 TB SSD that should speed up my system, this drive does not have the system OS on it, it has most of the the other programs on it.
The system is a ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0MB, 8350 FX CPU, 32 GB memory. The C drive has my OS, WIN 10 PRO ver 1909 and some of the programs on it. The C drive is a Kingston 240 GB SSD, the drive I’m trying to clone is the D and E drive, which is a seagate 1TB HDD drive. The drive I’m cloning to is a samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD. I have tried all of the manual ways that I know of to change the drive letters on the cloned drive to D and E, the program only gives me the option of G and H and up of a selection, what am I doing wrong? I have read a lot of the forum
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Juan T


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Steve
Thanks for the quick reply, I must say that does not give a new user any warm and fussy feelings.
So you are saying that once the disk is cloned I can shout down the system, disconnect the old drive, leave the new (SSD) in the system, and it will automatically be renamed D & E? or are there any other operations I need to do to have my system come up ?
Thanks
Juan T.
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Juan, ideally the cloned drive should take the place of the original drive, i.e. connected to the same cables or SATA port / controller.
This is normal for cloning! If your source drive already has drive letters D & E, then you cannot have another drive using those same letters, so the clone will always get other letters when still connected to the PC after being cloned.
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