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Hi, I have purchased Acronis as I've just installed a Sabrent 1tb nvme rocket ssd on my desktop. I've tried cloning several times, before and after purchasing the upgrade of Acronis but I just keep getting disk errors even when I've checked with sfc there are none found and used a third party software to check the health of my SSD, all good.

However, I've installed a fresh version of windows 10 to the new drive (out of frustration) and was wondering, if I proceed with the manual cloning and I select destination disk, when it asks to delete the partitions already created by the O/S, will they be deleted before the next step of move method before I select the remaining files I need to send over. (all excluding the old O/S files from old drive.)

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks for your help and time in advance

Regards,

Steve.

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Steve, welcome to these public User Forums.

More questions than answers initially!

What type of original drive does this computer have?  Is this a standard SATA HDD or SSD that you are wanting to migrate to your new NVMe SSD?

Is the NVMe SSD a M.2 drive that fits in a smaller PCIe socket?

How does the the original Windows OS boot from the BIOS?  Is this UEFI or Legacy?

NVMe drives normally require that UEFI BIOS mode is used along with GPT partitioning.

You can check the BIOS mode by typing: msinfo32 in Windows and looking at the report right panel where BIOS mode is shown.

The recommended method to migrate from your old OS drive to the new NVMe SSD is as follows:

  1. Boot from the old drive into Windows and confirm the BIOS mode used.
    Make a full Disk backup of that working OS drive to an external backup drive.
    Make a full Disk backup of the NVMe working OS in case you want to go back to how that is without needing to reinstall Windows again.
  2. Create the Acronis bootable Rescue Media and check that you can boot the computer from this media in UEFI mode.
  3. Shutdown the computer fully (press & hold Shift while clicking on shutdown).
  4. Remove the original drive leaving only the new NVMe SSD.
  5. Boot from the Acronis Rescue Media with the external drive connected.
  6. Recover the Disk backup to the new NVMe SSD and check that all is successful by checking the Log while still in the rescue media application.
  7. If all is good, then exit the rescue application, disconnect the external drive then check the Windows boots ok from the NVMe SSD.
  8. Make a new full Disk backup of the working NVMe SSD.

If you complete all of the above, then consider connecting the old drive via a USB adapter and reformatting it to use as a second internal drive alongside the NVMe SSD.

Hi,

The original is a Kingston 500gb SSD. All was going well until I got errors while trying to perform the backup of my original SSD. After multiple attempts, using Acronis Cloud or external drives, I kept getting disk errors. I ran SFC as mentioned above but when rebooting, my original O/S SSD would not run. I then tried to repair, which did work but after more attempts at backing up, it failed to go beyond 1.3gb of transfer. Again tried to reboot and the same happened. If I recall, I did have to change my boot option to UEFI and convert to GPT for the new m.2 drive to load/work. To that end I installed Win10 to the new m.2 drive with no problems.

On completion, all that is left to migrate/clone over is the program files I require so not to go through the process of having to reinstall everything.(assuming of course, this option is available on step 5,move method, of the cloning process).

e.g- at present my old Win10 drive is connected as an internal second drive, with assigned letter E. so all programs I have on there need to be allocated drive C to work. (if I have this correct.)

The message that appears after selecting destination, deleting the partitions, already created by Win10 on the new drive is something I don't want to risk as it would send me backwards again if it deletes those areas. 

From what you have mentioned above, if I backed up my m.2 drive to Acronis Cloud, (I really do think my original OS SSD partition is not recoverable) then go through the steps you've mentioned, would this work, or; if both SSD's use different boot modes, is this a lost cause anyway?

It sounds lazy I know but I was really hoping, cloning the files/programs over would be the easiest/simplest method as opposed to reinstalling everything which I will admit is quite a lot. (hence the upgrade in space of new SSD.)

I have read many of your posts and I can only thankyou for your time and help on many matters to this situation and others like it.

Regards,

Steve.

 

 

 

Steve, sorry but you cannot just move over your programs or other installed applications using any of the features of ATI.

Please see KB 19296: Acronis products cannot be used to transfer applications to different system or upgrade OS

Any user data contained within existing backups from the original Kingston SSD can be recovered to the new drive using either the ATI application or for local backups, using the Windows Shell integration with Explorer.

See KB 63240: Acronis True Image 2020: how to restore files from a backup (Windows) - and scroll down the document to the section showing how to open .tibx or .tib files in Explorer by double-clicking on the files.

Returning to the issue with the original Kingston SSD, the SFC tool does not check for file system issues or errors, it is for checking the integrity of the OS files only.  CHKDSK /F will work for the SSD but you should download the Kingston SSD Toolbox, Kingston SSD Manager to do a more thorough check of that drive given the solid-state nature of SSD drives.

Personally, I would recommend keeping with the clean install of Win 10 on the NVMe M.2 SSD and doing a new install of any other applications that you need to have on the computer.

Any attempt to perform a Disk recovery to the NVMe SSD will result in wiping out all current data from the drive as required to establish the partition layout and configuration from the backup image being restored.

Steve,

Thanks very much for your help and advice on this matter. I have got the Kingston SSD manager and all is good with the SSD. Which surprised me as ATI would not go past a certain point during backups, claiming to be errors and a big red X.

Still, all is good with the m.2 drive, and with patience, I will resume reinstallation of all my program files. 

On another note, I assume I can still use ATI for my other drives I have installed. I'm doing a big shift around and replacing HDD with SSD and still have a m.2 slot spare for the future.

Again, Thanks for your time and help.

Regards,

Steve.

Steve, there shouldn't be any issues with using ATI with any of your installed drives and it is always a good practise to have backups before making any big changes or moving from HDD to SSD drives.