Skip to main content

Moving to new HD?

Thread needs solution

I'm currently running Acronis True Image 2015 on a Dell XPS 15 9560 laptop.

I am wanting to replace my 500 GB SSD with a 1TB model.
New HD is a Samsung model NVMe SSD 960 EVO M.2

I've heard there are issues with these PCIe SSDs - is that true?
Can I just run a back up, create a bootable USB flash drive, replace HD & restore from a backup, or are there other considerations?

Any advice appreciated!

0 Users found this helpful

Mike, welcome to these User Forums.

The key issue that you are likely to face here is whether your ATI 2015 Rescue media will 'see' your new NVMe M.2 SSD when you are booted from the media?  I suspect that it will not do so.

Support for these newer NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD's was added in later versions of the application but they were not around when ATI 2015 was released or when it reached end of support for getting updates.

To overcome this limitation with the rescue media, you would need to create the alternative WinPE version of the media and inject the additional device drivers for the SSD, but this is also a more difficult task with your older 2015 product version.

I would recommend either upgrading to ATI 2018 (or taking a 30-day trial of the same), else consider joining the ATI 2019 Beta testing programme which it is still in progress, and using this version to do your disk migration.

One final comment.  Run the msinfo32 command in Windows and check what BIOS mode is being used by your Windows OS?  The same BIOS mode will need to be used for the Rescue Media when you boot it. 

If upgrading to 2018 is my best option (assuming that will be my most trouble-free path), I'm fine with that.

BIOS mode is UEFI

Updated to 2018, backed up, created rescue media, replaced HD & did restore, but I would have figured the unallocated space would have come after c...

What can I do to re-arrange?

 

Attachment Size
456800-150280.JPG 37.57 KB

Mike, the simplest / easiest way to give the unallocated space to where you want it to be is to use a partition manager program to do this.  My personal goto program is the free MiniTool Partition Wizard which will allow you to move the three smaller partitions that come after your OS C: partition to the far end of the unallocated space, then expand C: into that space (or create another new partition in that space).