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Clone my D and E HDD drive on to a SSD

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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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Juan, drive letters for any disk clone will not be as the original drive until after you have removed the original drive and replaced it by the cloned drive.

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.

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.