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Walkthrough or detailed help for cloning win11 small "m.2" to larger?

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I am long time TI user but my version is 2018.  I had trouble upgrading win10 to 11 as described over ate Dell (I had to remove the hyperlink to my "win11 disaster"

There was no problem with the clone and I used the Linux version.  The problem occurred afterwards with secure boot and the newly cloned hard drive.  I finally managed to get win11 working and it runs fine.  Acronis, Nero, all apps work OK with 11 

I wish to now upgrade my M.2 from 256 to larger one.

Is there a walkthrough or at least a detailed explanation on how to upgrade a working win11 system?

Is a later version of TI handle the clone better?

I suspect secure boot needs to be disabled. Does legacy boot need to be enabled?

Does the "tpm.msc" app need to be run the system cleared and then re-owned to include the larger m.2

At what point is secure boot re-enabled?

 

I tried googling the above but all I saw was help for people who want to upgrade to 11 on systems not designed for 11 

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Joseph,

Not sure which of the Dell machines you list is the one in question here.  Nevertheless it is recommended that migration to a new hard drive be performed via the backup and restore method rather than cloning.  It is also recommended that either procedure be performed by booting the subject machine to a bootable recovery media. 

In your case using a recovery or boot media to boot your machine will tell you if secure boot needs to be disabled or not, same with TPM.  I have a Windows 11 system which of course is using secure boot and TPM and I can boot the machine without disabling either secure boot or TPM.  What I would caution here is that if your target machine is capable of booting either UEFI or Legacy/CSM that you make sure to go into you bios setup and enable UEFI boot only prior to doing anything using boot media.  This will ensure that the correct boot mode is being used in any operation performed by an Acronis application.

Yes, I have been doing that. The 2018 app has "Clone Disk"  as shown below.  Is that no longer in 2020 or the latest Acronis TI?

I am showing the dialog box from the win11 app but I boot the linux (not the pe) version when cloning new disk drives. I have no problem cloning under win10.  It was when I tried to upgrade to 11 that I had a problem AFTER THE CLONE

This time I simply want to use a larger drive. The smaller one runs win11 just fine I just want to make sure there are no surprises like I ran into earlier.  Over at Dell I explained that I cloned the win10 disk so if something went wrong with the UPGRADE then I had my old exact same size disk to put back in.  It turned out that when I put the old disk back in (the upgrade did fail) I was unable to boot it as well.

There are a lot of users trying to upgrade systems not approved for win11 and googling I got way too much mis-information.  

 

As I recall, Acronis's "cloning" software was once distributed with either Seagate or WD as 3rd party. Is that still being done?

 

Joseph, all I can recommend here is:

  1. Create the WinPE 'Simple' version of Acronis rescue media to use.
  2. Don't use Cloning for this migration.
  3. Do make a full disk backup of the working source drive.
  4. Leave UEFI Secure Boot & TPM alone as they are working.
  5. Boot from the WinPE media in UEFI boot mode & restore the disk backup to the new NVMe M.2 SSD after it has been installed in place of the smaller original drive.

The above has worked just fine for me when upgrading my own NVMe M.2 SSD from 128GB to 500GB to 1TB over the past several years.

See forum topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I documented the process with screen images. 

Like Steve Smith, I have used backup and restore to upgrade the M.2 OS drive on several of my PCs. 

Ian

Joseph,

You say you have been doing that, I think you mean using the bootable media here but, you then include a screenshot of the clone tool as you see it in the Windows environment.  This suggests that you are starting the clone process from within the Windows application and letting the machine then boot into the Linux environment to perform the clone.

If you want this to work  DO NOT do it this way.  It is doubtful to me that this method will work on a Windows 11 installation given how new Windows 11 and its security requirements are.  Follow Steve's advice and build a WinPE media for the task.  Before you start any of it boot your machine into the BIOS setup and disable CSM/Legacy boot if your machine is so equipped.  Again, the backup and restore method is recommended here, no cloning.