Upgrading Rest of Desktop Drives, a Few Little Questions

Hello All


Went ahead and ordered upgraded Drives for rest of Desktop drives to go along with the M.2 Drive recently that i got for Christams, 1TB Samsung 860 Evo Sata SSD, and 4TB WD Black Storage drive.

I assume with Macirum Reflect Home i can just restore the image of Current 860 Evo 250GB Drive and 1TB Western Digital Black Storage drive onto the new drives once they are installed into system, i decided to do this type of upgrade as opening this case 1 time, and accessing the drive storage area is better than ordering them seperately


Don't think will be that easy to access my drive bays on my Thermaltake V200 Case lol, but i will get it done, just will have to take my time, gently get front cover open, access the screws for the drive trays as best i can, carefully pull out to remove old drives off the trays, put new drive onto the tray, slide back in, rescrew in, reconnect the cables,

250GB SSD i may move to my extra serial ata mounting spot, unknown what i'll store on that drive yet though, i think i have another Serial ata power cable that i could use for it i hope lol


Anything special i should do for the Western Digital 4TB Drive? should i full erase it and scan it for errors first or just start loading software onto it

Absolutely, you can restore images of your old drives to the new drives to preserve all the data that the original drives contained.

As for your 4TB drive, if I understand correctly, are you saying that this is a new drive? If so, simply of Disk Manager to see if the drive is already partitioned. If it is, and it is formatted as NTFS, then you need do nothing more. Otherwise, if it is not already partitioned, simply create one or more partitions on it and perform a quick format.

Excellent, easy enough then, hardest part might be hardware install itself, as will be first time installing on this newer case myself lol since shop built it in June.

But shouldn't be too hard to get done, just have to access the screws for the drive bay trays, and move the cables outta the way carefully so i can slide them out, remove old drives off the trays, put new drives on, slide back in, resecure, and connect the cables.

Then hopefully the newer drives work great for a long time, as don't think i'll wanna have to change out a second time lol

Question: Do you plan to move the contents of your boot disk to a new drive or will Windows remain on the same disk?

If you restoring an image with Windows to a new disk, then I would like to make a suggestion...

As you move things to the new case, start of by connecting only the drive that will be your boot / Windows disk just to make sure that your system sees it and boots from it successfully. Not having all the other drives connected can make it much easier to get the the initial boot working and makes it less complicated to troubleshoot initially. Once that is working, then go ahead and connect all the remaining drives.

Boot drive staying on the M.2 Samsung 970 Evo Plus, 500GB, Game SSD currently Samsung 860 250gb, gonna be moved to the 1TB Samsung 860 Evo, and storage drive from WD Black 1TB to the Newer WD Black 4TB Drive is current plan.

Not touching the boot drive, but i'll still image backup that one as well just in case

Then plan on restoring the images for the Samsung 860 evo 250 to 1TB 860 evo, and Storage drive just a couple small programs on that drive, and music and pictures, and videos, so should hopefully be easy restore from 1TB Western Digital Image to Western Digital 4TB drive. **Have 8TB Seagate to do the backup images on, so no worries there**

Sounds good!