How to Clone my HDD (SATA) to SSD M2?
Hi,
Sorry for my english. i'm from Argentina.
I want to clone my HDD disk connected via SATA to a new disk SSD M2. I looked out some forums but i dindt find any solution to my problem. Both disk are connect in diferent places inside the laptop. I tried to do the clone with both disk connected but the OS doesn't start from de SSD M2 disk. How can i do the clone? Have I to remove the HDD of my computer, connect externally via USB to do the clone? Have i any problem because the SSD disk is connect in another position (M2 Slot) of the SATA?
Thanks for your help!


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Beyond what Steve states there are some laptops that can use either SATA or M.2 but not both at the same time. Yours might be one of them checking with your manufacturer should answer that question.
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Enchantech wrote:Beyond what Steve states there are some laptops that can use either SATA or M.2 but not both at the same time. Yours might be one of them checking with your manufacturer should answer that question.
I agree that this can be the case; In my experience this is more often the case where the M.2 drive is a SATA rather than NVMe drive. Some M.2 sockets only support SATA or only support NVMe, while other support both.
Ian
There is a lot of confusion and misinformation about M.2 drives. This extends to the proper BISO/UEFI settings. User manuals are not always helpful in sorting this out.
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Had the same question, and honestly Acronis didn't work for me. I used Macrium Reflect FREE version and it worked flawlessly. All partitions cloned to a tee, All drivers installed at bootup. A bunch of Windows updates, etc at startup after login. Boot up ran into zero issues.
Source: Dell forums.
Steps:
1. Download macrium reflect free version is fine.
2. Make a bootable rescue flash drive using Macrium., create rescue media.
3. Boot the system from the rescue media.
4. Clone
5. Disconnect the original drive before you boot the cloned drive the first time.
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I would never use Clone operation for such an important task.
I would create a full disk mode backup. Then, remove the old drive and install the new drive, and restore the backup to the new drive.
Having the backup gives you the opportunity to try restoring a few times in case you need to adjust BIOS/UEFI settings to get things right.
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tuttle wrote:I would never use Clone operation for such an important task.
I would create a full disk mode backup. Then, remove the old drive and install the new drive, and restore the backup to the new drive.
Having the backup gives you the opportunity to try restoring a few times in case you need to adjust BIOS/UEFI settings to get things right.
+1
Ian
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