I would like to upgrade my current Samsung EVO M.2 SSD in C Drive to a compatible 1TB. I have My C drive backed up on Macrium Reflect. After I install the new replacement SSD, can I just restore the image from Macrium Reflect to the new drive, and will it transfer the data from the old C drive to the new one? Any pitfalls I should know about?
Hi, please confirm that you have ALL partitions on your drive imaged.
A Windows installation typically consists of 4 partitions (UEFI) - fewer for MBR.
If you choose Backup, Backup Windows, Macrium R automatically attempts to select all the partitions needed.
Example:
There are Youtube guides on cloning disks.
Please search tenforums for examples of cloning disks and problems people have trying to boot afterwards and how these were resolved.
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Considering the size of your disk, better practice is to create an additional partition for data, and place your personal data there, rather than on your Windows partition, for O/S maintenance reasons.
For example, if you have to restore an image of your O/S, all your data on the partition restored is set back to as it was when you created the image. If it is held separately, it is unaffected.
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"Considering the size of your disk, better practice is to create an additional partition for data, and place your personal data there, rather than on your Windows partition, for O/S maintenance reasons.
For example, if you have to restore an image of your O/S, all your data on the partition restored is set back to as it was when you created the image. If it is held separately, it is unaffected."
I could simply do a new image of C drive before I take the old SSD out. Then it would be current, yes?
On your new disk, plan your data placement as I described. Your Windows partition doesn't need to be as large as it possibly can be. Once your cloning is complete, you then need to create a new Macrium definition file based on your new disk and its partition structure.
I'm suggesting you take advantage of that change to place your personal data off C:
At which point you do that is entirely a matter for you to decide.
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I've used MR to do a full backup of a SATA 500GB HDD to another SATA 500GB HDD, worked when restored to the original drive. Be sure to create the Bootable Rescue disc. It should work with the SATA SSD drives. But the only experience I've had with the NVMe SSD drive was with an OEM backup from a 256GB to another 256GB in a USB case.
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When I restored a 2TB image to a 4TB drive I had to ensure the recovery partition was far right to be able to extend the C partition. IIRC I extended the C drive then dropped the recovery partition to the destination.
Thank you for the responses. I have no clue about 'partitions" what they are and what they do. To answer a question, yes, my MC backup includes all drives and partitions.
Watching You Tube video tutorials gives me a headache. The presenter commonly whips the cursor around his screen while talking 60 miles an hour. I have no idea what they are talking about most of the time. Doesn't anyone today teach; "do this first, then do this, etc"?
Run Macrium Reflect.
- On the right side you see all the drives.
- Select the actual OS drive. It is the source drive
- Below the partitions you will see two options: Clone this disk or image this disk. Select Clone this disk.
- Another Window will open with the Source disk on the top. Select the target drive (the new 1T drive) on the blank space on the bottom.
- If you want to create a Data partition as recommended leave a blank (unallocated space) after the Recovery partition.
- Hit finish
When done, shut down and detach the old drive. Enter BIOS and set the cloned as the boot priority drive. See if it boots from the cloned.
If everything is ok, and you want to use the old drive as a data or backup drive, open disk manager and delete ALLpartitions and then create one new primary partition and format. If you only format the old C: partition, on the drive will still be the system partitions that can cause problems to you.
You can use disk manager to create and format the unallocated space to create a data partition.
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