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The Win10 User Folders are on a separate SSD (D:) from my boot drive. Sysprep was used when Win10 was first installed, following instructions from tenforums.com

I think this older SSD is beginning to fail, or at least is not matched well to the NVME M.2 Samsung 950 boot drive. Sometimes the computer will fail to boot and a system restore is required to allow the computer to boot again.

The D drive will be replaced with a new Crucial MX500 1TB drive. 

If it is not possible to clone directly to the new drive (perhaps it is corrupt), can a backup of the original D drive be restored to the new MX500? Since this D: drive is also a system disk, I am wondering if there will be a problem with a simple restore.

 

Thank you,

Arne

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Arne,

You should have no problem cloning the drives (D: to new SSD).  A backup and restore should also produce the same result.  Your moving of the User Profile folders should not cause any issues with either of these procedures.

I have cloned a drive where users profiles live alone myself without issue, all went fine.  In fact I cloned both the C: and D: drives, installed both in place of the originals and everything worked perfectly.

Cloned to the new SSD and was able to boot the system.

The drive letter was removed from the new cloned drive using Disk Director, all other drives temporarily disconnected, and used the UEFI interface to select the M.2 drive as the boot drive.

 

Glad to hear, thanks for the update.