Moving from old smaller drive to new SSD
I have purchased a new SSD (2tb) and would like to move from my the OS from my old 7200rpm IDE (1tb) drive and make it my new Boot drive. I have been using this software for an incremental backup to an external drive, but have no idea if this software can do a complete clone and make a new bootable drive. Is there a simple function in the software to do what I am trying, or is it easier to do a fresh install and then copy the data after the fact?


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Steve Smith wrote:ATI can do all that is needed to migrate your OS & all installed applications plus data from your old drive to the new SSD, and can do this via either Backup & Recovery, or by using Cloning but where the former is a safer method.
I agree with @ Steve Smith that backup and recover is the safer method. I do not recall ever having had issues with a clone, even live clone, but it is always better to be safe than sorry. I you decide to go the clone rout please make a backup first in case the process goes pear shapped.
Ian
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I currently have a tower PC, and have a 500GB 3.5" drive as my c:\ drive. I was hoping there was a simple "Cloning" that I could use to move the data to my new drive (Currently my E:\ drive) a 2tb M.2 drive where I could simply remove the old C:\ drive and make the new drive my new C:\ drive. I no I could could do a complete backup to a bootable thumb drive and then try and restore back to the new drive, but I thought there would be a simpler route to do a direct copy.
I currently am running Acronis True Image 2020 Build 25700.
I tried the Clone Disk and it cloned all the partitions but did not clone any of the data itself. I am wondering if I did not select something properly?
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Charles, if your end intention here is to move everything from your C: OS drive to your new larger E: drive and have this become the OS boot drive, then the approach I would recommend if you don't want to use Backup & Recovery would be as follows:
- Ensure that you have a full disk backup of your C: OS drive before starting! This is your safety net in case of any errors or issues arising.
- Create the 'Simple' version of the Acronis Rescue Media on a USB stick or DVD disc. Check the BIOS mode used by your Windows OS by running the msinfo32 command to see if this uses UEFI or Legacy boot mode. This is how the rescue media needs to be booted if needed to recover the backup from 1.
- Assuming that your new E: NVMe M.2 drive is installed, then use the Acronis > Tools and Utilities > Add new disk option to prepare this new drive as GPT (required for NVMe M.2 boot drives). Leave the drive as unallocated free space - there is no need to create any partitions as will be wiped!
A further assumption here is that your Windows OS is also currently using UEFI / GPT mode so that your C: drive does not need to be migrated from Legacy / MBR to UEFI / GPT for the M.2 drive.
- Clone from your C: drive to the new E: drive then confirm that this is successful when completed.
- Shutdown the PC and remove the C: before attempting to boot into Windows from the M.2 drive.
- If Windows boots successfully from the M.2 drive, then I would recommend connecting the original drive via a USB adapter and reformatting it before reinstalling back into the PC. This will avoid any issues that can arise if you attempt to boot a PC with 2 drives having the same disk signature.
See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media
Acronis True Image 2019 and 2020: Active Cloning in Windows | Knowledge Base
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