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Cloning 250 ssd to 500 ssd on desktop
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Is there anything I should look out for, any problems that might rear their ugly heads.
My windows 10 runs fine, I don't want to upset the apple cart so to speak.
Cloning 250 ssd to 500 ssd on desktop
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No, there should be no problems. The ancillary benefit is that you're cloning to the same type of drive and you're doing it correctly by going from a smaller to larger capacity so that you don't have to worry about shrinking a volume.
It gets tricky when you have to shrink volumes to fit on a smaller capacity drive and sometimes the cloning software doesn't support the option.
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You might have more success with imaging and restoring rather than cloning. Either can work. If one fails or frustrates, try the other.
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I'm about to do the exact same thing.
Since only half the 500 ssd volume will be written to with the other half left unallocated, I will be expanding the new drive's volume after the clone so that it becomes a single 500 ssd with no partitions.
I will also be putting my 250 ssd on the shelf as a backup just in case anything should go awry with the clone or I get hit with a virus or ransom ware in the future. If that happened I could just pop the 250 it back in and/or reclone.
I'm using Samsung Data Migration software and have Samsung SSDs. It has always worked flawlessly in the past with 250 to 250 ssd clones.
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