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TIB M.2 Drive

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In the past with Acronis 2013 I did backups of the computer's primary drives. 
I have a new computer. HP Z2 G5 Workstation. The Z2 came with a 500 GB M.2 solid state drive.
It is too small for Adobe work. I need to replace the M.2 500GB with a M.2 2TB.

I need advise on how best to do TIB or a Clone? I think I would need to insert the M.2 2TB into the second M.2 to do this task. Let me know how best to accomplish this task!

Thanks!

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Chuck, I would recommend not using clone for this type of migration / upgrade and to use Backup & Recovery instead using the Acronis bootable Rescue Media for the Recovery.

I would further recommend only having one M.2 drive installed in the computer while doing this.

Make a full disk backup of the current 500GB M.2 drive to an external storage drive.

Create and test the Acronis rescue media - this should be created as WinPE media using the Simple option of ATI 2018 and later versions, including ACPHO.  The Simple option will take PE files and drivers from the Windows Recovery environment on the PC.

After making the disk backup & testing the rescue media, shutdown the computer, remove the 500GB drive and replace it with the new 2TB drive in the same M.2 slot.

Boot the computer in UEFI BIOS boot mode and recover the backup at the disk level.

See forum topic: Steve migrate NVMe SSD where I have documented the process I have used when upgrading my own NVMe M.2 SSD drives. 

Chuck, if your machine has 2 M.2 slots, but only one is being used for the 500GB drive, why replace it? Why not just add the second drive as a D: drive and move all your data there. The process is very easy and you won't have to copy over the system drive.

Steve, think Chuck is using ATI 2013 rather than ATI 2018. I doubt that the ATI 2013 recovery media would support M.2 drives. I do not recall any reports one way or the other. The HP Z2 G5 ships with Windows 10 Pro, and ATI 2013 predates Windows 10 by a few years, not sure how serious a problem that is. 

Ian

 

Ian, agree that ATI 2013 won't be very helpful with M.2 drives!  Have been assuming that Chuck either will have a later version given his post in this ACPHO forum, or will be using an OEM version of ATI 2021 that comes with the new M.2 drive?

Bruno, also agree that the 500GB drive should be fine for OS and apps and the 2TB one used for all data would be a simple solution that is easy to implement.

Steve, I has not considered the possibility of using an OEM version of ATI/ACPHO that comes with the new M.2 drive. Most new drives come with some sort of OEM imaging software - most common seems to be ATI/ACPHO.

Ian