clone/migrate OS from SSD
Hi,
in the knowledge base of Acronise they describe how to migrate OS to SSD. But this is in the section HDD to SSD and I don't see the a section like SSD to SSD. Would the same method as described in the article (recovery) work in my case:
Currently, I use SATA SSD on my ProBook 440 G4 where I have Windows 10 Edu installed. I bought a m.2 SSD and would like to migrate the OS to this disk and use then the slot where SATA SSD was for HDD as data storage.
Hardware specs:
current: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB
new: Samsung - PM981a 256GB SSD bulk (MZVLB256HBHQ-00000)
Acronis Knowledfe base has also this recommendation:
Note: It is recommended that your old and new hard drives work in the same controller mode (for example, IDE or AHCI). Otherwise, your computer might not start from the new hard drive.
How can I check it?
P.S. Why I'm getting "you are not allowed to place hyperlinks inside the text" when I want to publish this post?
Regards,


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Steve, first of all, thank you very much for very thorough answers in this forum.
I already know that the mode of the source SSD is AHCI, then it has GPT and my Windows uses UEFI. I use ATI 2020.
Somewhere in knowledge base I read it is good to put the source SSD out into external enclosure while "restoring" to the output SSD. Is it right?
I will go through the other steps and links here and let know how it is going.
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Somewhere in knowledge base I read it is good to put the source SSD out into external enclosure while "restoring" to the output SSD. Is it right?
KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - 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.
I have always found it best to adopt the same approach for both cloning and recovery from a backup image. The target drive being in the end location where it will be used to boot from gives the best results for getting the boot settings correct.
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Next, create the Windows PE version of the Acronis Rescue Media using the 'Simple' option in the builder tool (assuming you have ATI 2018 or later).
I have already created the Acronis Survival Kit + full system backup before. Would it be appropriate for my purpose?
How can I chek if it is WindowsPE?
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Walter, the Survival Kit always uses Windows PE to create the 2GB boot partition. When you boot from the external drive, you will see the Windows logo during that boot process to confirm that.
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The new SSD is in the notebook and is not allocated. But suddenly, I got the similar issue as No. 4831: cannot boot from my survival kit into Acronis Rescue Media.
So I'm going to follow your instruction:
Next, create the Windows PE version of the Acronis Rescue Media using the 'Simple' option in the builder tool (assuming you have ATI 2018 or later).
But in the Knowledge base they write for the simple step:
If you use Windows 7 or a later version, WinRE-based media will be created
So should I procced to advanced?
What about creating Universal Boot media as I will recover to another SSD?
What about .iso?
I'm going to recover from Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB to Samsung SSD 860 EVO M.2 250 GB on the same Notebook (HP ProBook 440 G4)
BTW: there is a bug in the forum: preview >> save does not work. You should close the window go to comments, open the issue again and then paste (assuming you copied the text before) it, then save works.
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Walter, from earlier you said you are on Windows 10, so no need to use the Advanced options for creating rescue media. You also do no need Acronis Universal Restore media for actions within the same PC such as migrating to a new drive.
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Steve,when I created the Rescue Media it was Win RE, you wrote previously that it should be Win PE, I haven't seen this option when creating the media.
I hope, when I solve the boot issue I can procced to the recover.
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Walter, to avoid any confusion here, WinRE is the same as WinPE - the only difference is where the PE files are taken from. WinRE = the Windows Recovery Environment is the source of the PE files, otherwise, the Windows ADK & PE extra components need to be installed to provide the source for the PE files.
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