Cloning PCIe to larger PCIe when you only have 1 PCIe slot
My current desktop has a single PCIe slot with a 2TB PCIe drive. My new system arriving this week has a 1TB PCIe drive. Once I've setup the new system and backed up my 2TB PCIe I'd like to clone the 1TB over to the 2TB drive. Problem is I only have 1 PCIe slot per computer. If I had 2 it'd be easy, but I don't know if I can image the 1TB onto a backup drive then restore that image to the 2TB and have it expand to use the extra space?


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Darryl, welcome to these public User Forums.
See forum topic here where I documented how I used Backup & Recovery to upgrade my own smaller NVMe M.2 SSD to a larger drive with only the one NVMe slot, including screen images of the process.
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Thanks folks. I totally forgot about using Win10 to resize the partition, I was fixated on using Acronis. And I do volunteer work rehabing old computers for donation and have done the resizing many times, it just didn't occur to me this time.
I'd like to just relocate my 2TB PCIe to the new computer. A tech I know said that should work with Win10 and would save me the time it'd take to reinstall and setup my apps. But I'm going from a 2016 CyberPowerPC i7/NVidia 2080 to a 2020-21 Dell Alienware R11 i9/NVidia 3090 so I'm not 100% sure that would go smoothly.
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Darryl, if your older PC is approaching 5 years old then you would probably be best served by keeping the new Windows 10 install and enjoying the clean start this will give you without all the other dross that accumulates over that period of time.
You can backup the new 1TB drive and restore to the larger 2TB drive assuming both use the same PCIe slot / interface, to take advantage of the larger drive in the new PC.
If you do consider migrating Windows 10 from the old PC to the new one, then both copies of the OS need to be of the same edition, i.e. both Pro or Home, this is so that any activation issues are avoided provided both PC's had already been activated.
There will be hardware differences because of the drivers needed for which Acronis Universal Restore will probably be needed to help resolve.
See KB 62970: Acronis True Image 2020: Restoring to dissimilar hardware with Acronis Universal Restore for more details of the process needed to be followed.
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Thanks again, the new system will have Win10 home vs Pro in the old system. The 2TB drive in the old system was formatted and had a clean install of Win10 Pro about 5 months ago. Prior to that I had a 1TB SSD that I was using to boot from, it's now unplugged but should still work and has Acronis on it. These systems are gaming rigs so I keep them as "clean" as possible with the min number of apps. I have an iMac for general computing use. I may consider just using the gaming rig with dual boot gaming/productivity drives to keep it simple.
My 2TB PCIe has about 700GB in use and there are some games I don't need to install on a new system so I think I'll just use the 1TB PCIe until I have everything setup again. Then I'll backup the 2TB PCIe and make it a "clean' drive with no partitions. Then after making an image of the 1TB PCIe I should be able to restore it by booting the new computer with the Acronis Flash Drive and restoring to the newly installed 2TB.
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Daryl,
A word of caution here, if your new system will come with Win 10 Home and your current system is running Win 10 Pro, you may be forced to upgrade the new PC to a Pro license as Windows installs are tied to hardware now.
On another note, moving a few generations of processors with disks is not generally workable due to previously installed drivers. Even providing current drivers using Universal Restore are problematic so be prepared for a swap not be workable.
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