Help with new SSD
Hello, I am trying to replace a 2TB SSD with a 4TB SSD and am having trouble.
I have a Dell G7 7588 computer running Windows 10. The OS is on a NVMe drive, and I have a Samsung 860 SATA drive as “D” which contains my user folders and some programs. I want to change the Samsung 860 drive with a Samsung 870. Even though the OS is on the other drive, I have not been able to make this work.
I tried copying all files over and installing the new drive. When I do this, the disk management and device manager do not recognize the new drive. Disk Management sees it as an unallocated volume, and Device manager sees it as the old 860 drive. All options for reformatting etc are grayed out, even when running Disk Management as an administrator. Samsung magician correctly identifies it as an 870. I plugged the old 860 drive in via USB, and disk management saw it as the D drive again.
I tried cloning the drive with Macrium, but it will not allow it, because for some reason when I initially put the 860 drive in, I formatted it with a 512 byte sector size instead of 4096. I would like to use the preferred sector size in the new drive. Also, even if I clone it, it seems that device manager won’t recognize it as the correct drive.
I tried removing the current D drive, taking it out of the computer, rebooting with no drive, then installing the new drive, and rebooting again. Still, it will not recognize it as a new drive.
I thought about trying to image it. It’s tricky because I don’t have another drive big enough to contain the image. The only way I could do it is partition the 4Tb as 2 2TB drives, imaging the 860 onto one partition, then restoring it to the other partition. But I still don’t see how this resolves the inability of windows to recognize the new drive.
When I originally installed the 2 TB drive, I had to reset windows to recognize it (it was an upgrade from a 1TB HDD). I do not want to have to do that again. The first time, the computer was new so there was nothing to lose on it. I really don’t want to have to reinstall everything.
Is there any way to do this without reinstalling windows? What I want to end up with is my existing NVMe drive containing the OS, the new 4 TB Samsung 870 containing the same data that’s currently on my 860, and my computer recognizing that the SATA drive is now a 4TB Samsung 870, preferably with a 4096 cluster size.
How do I do this? Thank you!
Hello, I am trying to replace a 2TB SSD with a 4TB SSD and am having trouble.
I have a Dell G7 7588 computer running Windows 10. The OS is on a NVMe drive, and I have a Samsung 860 SATA drive as “D” which contains my user folders and some programs. I want to change the Samsung 860 drive with a Samsung 870. Even though the OS is on the other drive, I have not been able to make this work.
I tried copying all files over and installing the new drive. When I do this, the disk management and device manager do not recognize the new drive. Disk Management sees it as an unallocated volume, and Device manager sees it as the old 860 drive. All options for reformatting etc are grayed out, even when running Disk Management as an administrator. Samsung magician correctly identifies it as an 870. I plugged the old 860 drive in via USB, and disk management saw it as the D drive again.
I tried cloning the drive with Macrium, but it will not allow it, because for some reason when I initially put the 860 drive in, I formatted it with a 512 byte sector size instead of 4096. I would like to use the preferred sector size in the new drive. Also, even if I clone it, it seems that device manager won’t recognize it as the correct drive.
I tried removing the current D drive, taking it out of the computer, rebooting with no drive, then installing the new drive, and rebooting again. Still, it will not recognize it as a new drive.
I thought about trying to image it. It’s tricky because I don’t have another drive big enough to contain the image. The only way I could do it is partition the 4Tb as 2 2TB drives, imaging the 860 onto one partition, then restoring it to the other partition. But I still don’t see how this resolves the inability of windows to recognize the new drive.
When I originally installed the 2 TB drive, I had to reset windows to recognize it (it was an upgrade from a 1TB HDD). I do not want to have to do that again. The first time, the computer was new so there was nothing to lose on it. I really don’t want to have to reinstall everything.
Is there any way to do this without reinstalling windows? What I want to end up with is my existing NVMe drive containing the OS, the new 4 TB Samsung 870 containing the same data that’s currently on my 860, and my computer recognizing that the SATA drive is now a 4TB Samsung 870, preferably with a 4096 cluster size.
How do I do this? Thank you!
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