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I am sure this question has been asked before, but I could not find it for my specific conditions. The question is: how to upgrade C drive from 500gb nvme to 1 tb nvme, I currently have both C and D drives on the MB. I need to add more space for applications on the boot C drive. I am hoping there is a relatively simple way to accomplish this.

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vwcrusher said:
I am sure this question has been asked before, but I could not find it for my specific conditions. The question is: how to upgrade C drive from 500gb nvme to 1 tb nvme, I currently have both C and D drives on the MB. I need to add more space for applications on the boot C drive. I am hoping there is a relatively simple way to accomplish this.

thanks
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Desktop or laptop?

Please show us a screencap of your current Disk Management window.
 
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Download the Data Migration tool from there, it'll copy the data from the C:\ drive to the other drive so that you can boot into it.

If you already have stuff on the D:\ drive, it'll erase it, so keep that in mind.
 
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Thanks for the replies....the total occupied space on the C drive is 270GB out of 464GB, but I plan on adding another 150G to that, which gets us too close.

I did read about the data migration tool from Samsung....don't know how seemless it is though
 
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vwcrusher said:
Thanks for the replies....the total occupied space on the C drive is 270GB out of 464GB, but I plan on adding another 150G to that, which gets us too close.

I did read about the data migration tool from Samsung....don't know how seemless it is though
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It's basically:
  • Choose the storage drive you want to copy the data to
  • Hit go
  • Shut down the computer (it'll offer the option to do this after it's done copying)
  • Take out the old drive and boot into the new one to verify it works
You can reuse the old one if you want, but you have to make sure the system boots into the new drive (as it may boot into the old one by default) so you can erase the old one.
 
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hotaru.hino said:
It's basically:
  • Choose the storage drive you want to copy the data to
  • Hit go
  • Shut down the computer (it'll offer the option to do this after it's done copying)
  • Take out the old drive and boot into the new one to verify it works
You can reuse the old one if you want, but you have to make sure the system boots into the new drive (as it may boot into the old one by default) so you can erase the old one.
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Thanks, my plan is to purchase a 1TB drive for W11 and Apps to replace the 500GB. I assume I should purchase the same drive but twice the capacity (same as my D drive), or what ever the most recent version is.
 
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OK.....2x 970 EVO drives.

WE can clone from the smaller to the larger.
This WILL wipe out everything on the 1TB D drive.

Is this what you're looking to do?

Or, you could just move some stuff (data, not applications) from the C to the D.


But given a 500GB drive, with 269GB free space, I see little need to do this.

Detailed clone steps available if you still wish to do it.
 
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vwcrusher said:
Thanks, my plan is to purchase a 1TB drive for W11 and Apps to replace the 500GB. I assume I should purchase the same drive but twice the capacity (same as my D drive), or what ever the most recent version is.
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You don't need to. And the Data Migration tool will work if the destination drive has a smaller capacity as long as the amount of space used in the source drive is less than the capacity of the destination drive.
 
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USAFRet said:
OK.....2x 970 EVO drives.

WE can clone from the smaller to the larger.
This WILL wipe out everything on the 1TB D drive.

Is this what you're looking to do?

Or, you could just move some stuff (data, not applications) from the C to the D.


But given a 500GB drive, with 269GB free space, I see little need to do this.

Detailed clone steps available if you still wish to do it.
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Thanks for the reply. Yeah, they are about 4 years old...sizes were fine then..not so much now. What I thought I could do is purchase a new 1TB drive, install it where the current data 1TB is on the mb. Then clone all the contents of the 500GB to the new 1TB. Remove the 500GB drive and replace it with the newly cloned 1TB drive to now be the C drive.

Then put the old data D drive back in its slot on the MB.

Yes? No? : )
 
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vwcrusher said:
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, they are about 4 years old...sizes were fine then..not so much now. What I thought I could do is the purchase a new 1TB drive, install it where the current data 1TB is on the mb. Then clone all the contents of the 500GB to the new 1TB. Remove the 500GB drive and replace it with the newly cloned 1TB drive to now be the C drive.

Then put the old data D drive back in its slot on the MB.

Yes? No? : )
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I think what they're asking is if you already have both slots populated, there's no reason to clone to the new drive. If you want to install more apps and you're running out of space on the old drive, just point it to the new drive.
 
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hotaru.hino said:
I think what they're asking is if you already have both slots populated, there's no reason to clone to the new drive. If you want to install more apps and you're running out of space on the old drive, just point it to the new drive.
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Oh...I suppose, but I would rather keep everything clean, plus as I noted these drives are 4 years old and applications are getting larger and larger. For the cost of a 1TB nvme drive I will be good for hopefully another 4 years....if the cloning can be done seamlessly.
 
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vwcrusher said:
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, they are about 4 years old...sizes were fine then..not so much now. What I thought I could do is purchase a new 1TB drive, install it where the current data 1TB is on the mb. Then clone all the contents of the 500GB to the new 1TB. Remove the 500GB drive and replace it with the newly cloned 1TB drive to now be the C drive.

Then put the old data D drive back in its slot on the MB.

Yes? No? : )
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Well yes, you could do that.

But I see little issue with the system as it is.
The C drive is not even 1/2 full.

If it were me, I'd probably just add another drive, probably a SATA III SSD, for additional space.
Leave the current C and D as is.
 
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vwcrusher said:
Oh...I suppose, but I would rather keep everything clean, plus as I noted these drives are 4 years old and applications are getting larger and larger. For the cost of a 1TB nvme drive I will be good for hopefully another 4 years....if the cloning can be done seamlessly.
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So, if you really wish to clone the 500GB C to a larger 1TB, thusly....

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Specific steps for a successful clone operation:
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Verify the actual used space on the current drive is significantly below the size of the new SSD
Both drives must be the same partitioning scheme, either MBR or GPT
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung target SSD)
If you are cloning from a SATA drive to PCIe/NVMe, you may need to install the relevant driver for this new NVMe/PCIe drive.
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up

Verify the system boots with ONLY the current "C drive" connected.
If not, we have to fix that first.

Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive

[Ignore this section if using the SDM. It does this automatically]
If you are going from a smaller drive to a larger, by default, the target partition size will be the same as the Source. You probably don't want that
You can manipulate the size of the partitions on the target (larger)drive
Click on "Cloned Partition Properties", and you can specify the resulting partition size, to even include the whole thing
[/end ignore]

Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD. This is not optional.
This is to allow the system to try to boot from ONLY the SSD

(swapping cables is irrelevant with NVMe drives, but DO disconnect the old drive for this next part)
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe all partitions on it.
This will probably require the commandline diskpart function, and the clean command.

Ask questions if anything is unclear.
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