I noted that the new drive came with an activation key for the Acronis True Image HD OEM software. The reason I bought the drive was to replace my existing Kingston 2.5in 120GB SATA SSD, which is the current boot drive and is running out of capacity. When I booted the PC (Windows 10 Home) the new drive was available as a data drive. This meant the 2 PCIe sockets became disabled, which I was not using anyway. I installed the drive in the M.2 slot of my ASUS H97-Pro motherboard, changed the BIOS to use 4x channels, rather than the default of 2x. I recently bought a Kingston A2000 NVMe 1TB SSD, which uses the M.2 form factor. Is there anything subtle like sector size that might have been messed up? I even tried a restore from backup but the NVMe just won't boot. As far as I can tell nothing changed except the clone is not made to an SSD that had been cloned before. It starts but cycles back to the BIOS and never finishes. I repeated the cloning and it just won't boot. I wanted my backup to match the clone state so I waited until the next day when the next backup had occurred. I then disconnected the SATA SSD and ensured that the boot mode is UEFI booted selecting Boot Manager Cloned (I may not have the words exact). I used the clone feature which ran happily.
As it happens the NVMe is a Samsung 950 Pro which includes a BIOS extension allowing it to boot without an M.2 slot on the motherboard. I want to clone my SATA SSD to a slightly NVMe SSD. I see people having problems cloning and often having them solved.
Once the Active Clone is complete, then do a full Shutdown of your computer (press & hold the Shift key while clicking on Shutdown), then ideally, disconnect the current SSD temporarily then go into the BIOS settings and ensure that you have Windows Boot Manager from the NVMe SSD as your boot device and test that you can boot into Windows OK.Īt this point, you should be able to shutdown again and reconnect the original SSD drive then either use the Acronis Rescue Media to boot the computer and use this to wipe the original SSD drive using the tools available, or else test booting into Windows with both drives (after again checking the BIOS boot settings and ensuring the original SSD is not the primary option!), then use Windows tools to format the SSD etc. See KB 61665: Acronis True Image 2019: Active Cloning in Windows
Once you have done the above, then install the new NVMe M.2 SSD in your computer and boot from your current SSD into Windows so that any additional device drivers are installed if needed.Īt this point, you can use the new Active Clone feature to clone from within Windows from your current SSD to the new NVMe M.2 SSD without the need to use an adapter.
See KB 61645: Acronis True Image 2019: how to back up files or disks Next, make a full disk backup of your current SSD to an external backup drive before you even think about starting to clone from it! This is your safety net in case of errors etc! See KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media Note: NVMe requires that Windows boots in UEFI mode, so check that this is the case for the existing SSD drive. See KB 61632: Acronis True Image 2019: how to create bootable media Pablo, welcome to these public User Forums.Ĭreate the Acronis bootable Rescue Media and test that you can boot your computer from this. Is that right? And if so, wouldn't it be equally safe if I (1) after cloning, disconnected the SATA SSD and turned the PC on with only the NVMe SSD connected, to ensure it booted from there (2) turned the PC off, plugged the SATA SSD (old drive) back in the motherboard SATA port (3) turned it on again but on the post screen made sure the boot sequence keeps the NVMe SSD as primary drive (4) let it boot from the NVMe and then used Windows tools to wipe the SATA SSD clean ? I read that in this case the best practice would be to connect my old SATA SSD through a USB adapter, but I don't have such adapter and by the logic of this recommedation, it seems the only concern is to prevent the system from booting from the old drive (since it will never boot from a USB drive), which would mess up the new drive (in my case, the NVMe SSD). My question is: how can I safely do this, as there is a very clear instruction not to turn the system on with both SSDs connected, post cloning? I plan to use it to clone my Win10+files that are currently in a Crucial SATA SSD (also 500 GB) to the new NVMe SSD, from which I will always boot, but I'd also like to wipe the source SATA SSD and use it as additional storage space on the same PC. Hello, I got an XPG NVMe SSD (500 GB) and with it the Acronis True Image.