[SOLVED] Clone via pciE adapter or usb enclosure

[2simple4u]

Hello I currently have this build:

Motherboard: HP 8767
Intel Core i7-10700F
1TB HDD
256GB SSD (KXG60ZNV256G)
32GB RAM
GeForce GTX 1660 Super

1 x PCI-E x16 - Occupied; 1 x PCI-E x1 - Available; 2 x M.2 - Occupied

I am currently booting off the SSD, and would like to upgrade that to a 1 TB SSD.

Would it be best if I:
1 - buy a pci-e to M.2 adapter and just use it as a secondary drive or
2 - buy an ssd enclosure, clone my current ssd to a new 1TB SSD, then use the 1TB SSD as my c drive

I'm hoping my extra space will solve a couple issues I'm currently having:

• when editing real estate photography related stuff, photoshop gets unresponsive after a few edited photos. For example I'd start painting with a brush, and the actual painting is delayed by a few seconds. as you can imagine, slows my workflow to a crawl.
• I have a game that I'd like to download that is recommending that I have 120 GB free on the SSD. I only have 40 left (from the 256).

Any guidance would be appreciated. thank you in advance.

 

[2simple4u]

Current SSD -> write Image on HDD -> write that image to new SSD.
That's the way it is supposed to work.

Good news
! I think I got it going.

Small question though. I only have my imaged partitions available on my new SSD. The rest of it is unallocated.

Should I click on simple volume to assign a new drive letter to the unallocated portion of the SSD ?

 

[USAFRet]

Good news
! I think I got it going.

Small question though. I only have my imaged partitions available on my new SSD. The rest of it is unallocated.

Should I click on simple volume to assign a new drive letter to the unallocated portion of the SSD ?

Show us a screencap of the current Disk Management window.

 

[2simple4u]

Show us a screencap of the current Disk Management window.

Screenshot

 

[Lafong]

Good news
! I think I got it going.

Small question though. I only have my imaged partitions available on my new SSD. The rest of it is unallocated.

Should I click on simple volume to assign a new drive letter to the unallocated portion of the SSD ?

You can't assign a drive letter to unallocated space.

But you can add that unallocated space to any other existing partition...through various methods.

Or make a new partition from the unallocated space.

 

[USAFRet]

Screenshot

2 options:

1. Create a NEW partition in that unallocated space, format, and give ti a drive letter.
2. Redo the Image Recovery, and you can probably manipulate the resulting partition sizes. Encompass the whole of the drive space into the C partition.

Look at "Cloned Partition Size"
I believe this also works with Image Recovery.

 

[Lafong]

From your picture, I don't think you can add your unallocated space to C using Disk Management.....because that intervening recovery partition is in the way.

But, you COULD do that with a third party application.

You could make an E partition out of that unallocated space if that is your choice.....Directly from Disk Management without a third party application.

 

[USAFRet]

From your picture, I don't think you can add your unallocated space to C using Disk Management.....because that intervening recovery partition is in the way.

But, you COULD do that with a third party application.

You could make an E partition out of that unallocated space if that is your choice.

Right.
It cannot be done directly in Disk Management.

 

[2simple4u]

2 options:

1. Create a NEW partition in that unallocated space, format, and give ti a drive letter.
2. Redo the Image Recovery, and you can probably manipulate the resulting partition sizes. Encompass the whole of the drive space into the C partition.

Look at "Cloned Partition Size"
I believe this also works with Image Recovery.

I think I like being able to have another drive I can just install stuff on and leave the windows drive alone.

And when you say NEW partition, you mean creating a simple volume and assigning a new letter to it ?

 

[USAFRet]

And when you say NEW partition, you mean creating a simple volume and assigning a new letter to it ?

Its not "another drive", but rather another drive letter/partition on that same drive.

Installing applications to that brings no real benefit.
Saving your files to that may be of benefit.


Right click on that Unallocated space.
What options does it give you?

 

[Lafong]

I think I like being able to have another drive I can just install stuff on and leave the windows drive alone.

And when you say NEW partition, you mean creating a simple volume and assigning a new letter to it ?

Yep. Presumably E letter

 

[2simple4u]

Its not "another drive", but rather another drive letter/partition on that same drive.

Installing applications to that brings no real benefit.
Saving your files to that may be of benefit.


Right click on that Unallocated space.
What options does it give you?

"New Simple Volume"

clicking that takes me to a "New Simple Volume Wizzard" that asks for the size of the new volume and then the letter id like to assign it.

 

[USAFRet]

"New Simple Volume"

clicking that takes me to a "New Simple Volume Wizzard" that asks for the size of the new volume and then the letter id like to assign it.

And that is exactly what you do...😉

 

[2simple4u]

Yep. Presumably E letter

Yup. thats what I did. thanks so much !

 

[2simple4u]

And that is exactly what you do...😉

Done ! thank you for the guidance...Mission Complete !