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I have Dell XPS 9820 desktop with windows 10, Acronis 2019 and full drive(all partitions) backup of my C: drive (Samsung 250GB SSD M-2 PCIE).
I want to replace my current Samsung 250 GB SSD M-2 with a 500 GB in same slot. My plan is to use disconnect all drives from system except for my C: drive and one Hard drive with the Acronis full drive Acronis backup. Below are the steps I plan to follow:
1. Reboot into Acronis rescue media
2. Using Acronis restore to the newly installed 500GB SSD-2 Drive.
3. When restore is complete immediately shutdown system.
4. remove the source hard drive from system
5. boot into bios and make sure new drive is visible and have proper boot order
6. exit bios after saving
7. boot system with new 500GB drive installed.

My questions are:

Is this the proper sequence and procedure to follow?

Is there anything in how my current C: drive partitions are arranged that will adversely affect my procedure?

Attached is a copy of my current C: drive partitions and identifications
Thanks for your help

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James, your plan looks to be fine and should do what you are wanting.  The key element not mentioned is to ensure that you boot from the Acronis Rescue Media in UEFI mode as required by your Windows OS and the NVMe M.2 SSD - this will preserve your EFI System Partition.

When checking the BIOS after the restore, you should be seeing the 'Windows Boot Manager' from the new 500GB SSD as the priority boot device.  This is how your current 250GB SSD should show in the UEFI BIOS settings before the upgrade.

One further point.  It is possible that the new SSD will show the extra space as being either unallocated or else not allocated as you expect if Acronis cannot automatically resize the current partitions correctly.  If so, then download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard application and use this to adjust the partitions on the new drive, i.e. move or resize as needed.

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the super fast reply. You also answered a question I forgot to ask, "how to resize partitions". 

Thanks again. I did not want to start this until I had it right. I read several articles here and to be honest I was a little confused afterwards with all the variables.

Jim

 

 

Yesterday I replaced my 250 GB ssd with a Samsung EVO 970 500 GB. I followed the above procedure and windows would not load and went into repair mode or whatever  and even after running diagnostics nothing was found but it would not load after several attempts. I tried a different backup, different usb port for boot media. My bios setup was correct before and afterwards.

I finally had to do a windows reset with saving my personal files. That work perfectly and after some minor rebuilding of apps it is all is well and very fast. I still have no idea why it didn't work. Actually it may have been for the better since now I have a clean system. 

The funny thing is that when I got this computer(Dell XPS 8920) I installed an m2 ssd in the empty slot. I had purchased a usb to M2 adapter and cloned the new Dell  hard drive to the SSD, inserted the M2 SSD, botted and everything worked fine.  

Just thought I would pass along my experience. Thanks again.

Side note on the Survival Kit: 

In doing a backup of my new drive with 2019 Acronis, I tried the Survival Kit option to an external WD My Book 3GB drive. The install of the Survival Kit went well, I then backed up my new C drive. No problem. This morning I tried backup my photo drive "E" to the WD External and Acronis would not recognize the WD external drive, yet it would allow me to backup my "C" drive perfectly. I then deleted the Survival partition and I was able to backup my E drive to the External. Not sure that was all about. I see here that others have had problems too. 

James, thanks for sharing your experience with us here and sorry to read that it didn't go as smoothly as anticipated.  The steps you outlined should have worked fine as far as I understand so it is worrying that you needed to do a Windows reset to overcome the boot issue.

I will need to try the same upgrade myself at some point in the future when I have time - I have a HP Omen laptop which came with a 128GB NVMe M.2 SSD along with a 1TB HDD drive, that I would like to upgrade the SSD to a larger drive. I will try to remember to document the process and outcome when I get to that point, though will probably be early next year with current plans!