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I have a NEW PC with a 500GB Nvme drive as a boot drive that I have NEVER booted. Can I clone this drive to a larger 1tb Nvme drive using other PC ?

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The short answer is yes; however, I do not advocate the use of cloning with boot drive (drive with operating system on it). In particular I avoid cloning from within Windows. I would create recovery media (simple recovery media is likely to be best as it will use Windows RE and should pick up all necessary drivers. I would then boot with the recovery media and create a backup.

There is a full description of the way to proceed in numerous post by Steve Smith, the text of one of which is reproduced below:

The steps in outline are as follows:

  1. Create the Acronis Rescue Media (use the Simple option for WinPE)
  2. Test booting your PC from the rescue media, ensuring you understand how to boot in the same BIOS mode as used by the OS and can 'see' your current drive and an external backup drive to hold a full disk backup image.
  3. Make a new full Disk backup of the working drive to an external drive as a one-off backup action.
  4. Shutdown the PC, remove the current drive and install the new one.
  5. Boot from the Acronis Rescue Media with your backup drive connected.
  6. Recover the Backup from step 3. to the new drive.
  7. Check the Log messages before exiting from the rescue media (all logs are lost on exit) to check all is OK.
  8. If all ok, disconnect the external drive, remove the rescue media and restart the PC normally from the new drive.
  9. When you have confirmed all is ok with the new drive, make a new backup again to include any new device drivers installed for the new drive.

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

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

Hope this helps

Ian