Question NVME cloning question.

[ingeborgdot]

I have an NVME on my PC music server, that is really running HOT. We're talking something is wrong with it. It is an NVME like I said but I have never cloned an NVME to another NVME before. How can it be done? I will have to look to see if there is another NVME slot to put the new NVME if that is what I decide to get. I don't know if I really need an NVME, but I do need at least an SSD. Have you ever clone one before?
What is a good cloning software?
Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

Does your system have 2x M.2 ports, for this clone operation?

 

[ingeborgdot]

Yepper, it sure does.

 

[USAFRet]

Yepper, it sure does.

OK, just checking.
Doing this with 1x M.2 port can be done easily, but differently.

 

[ingeborgdot]

I ended up getting a WD Blue SN570. It was one of the higher rated NVMEs out there. I noticed that my other NVME besides getting hot was also about 30GB from being full so I decided on a 500GB drive. I used Macrium to clone and Aomei to take the 250 GB unallocated space that was left over after clone and add it in to the drive since Macrium doesn't do that. There was no way to do this via disk management since there was a partition between the two.
This new drive is 30 C cooler than the other drive. We're sitting at 29 to 30 degrees. So my air flow is seems like it was not the problem. I'm up and running.

 

[USAFRet]

I used Macrium to clone and Aomei to take the 250 GB unallocated space that was left over after clone and add it in to the drive since Macrium doesn't do that.

Yes, you can do that in Macrium.
Actually, prevent it from happening.

But, since it is up and running, all is good.

 

[ingeborgdot]

How would I have been able to do that in Macrium? Only for a paid version is what I thought. I guess I missed the step for that. Would you mind showing me a link if possible that would show me how to do it in Macrium? Thanks so much.

 

[USAFRet]

How would I have been able to do that in Macrium? Only for a paid version is what I thought. I guess I missed the step for that. Would you mind showing me a link if possible that would show me how to do it in Macrium? Thanks so much.

In the middle section of this post of steps:
https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/nvme-cloning-question.3766348/#post-22718727

[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]


You do that before you hit the Go button.

 

[ingeborgdot]

It was easy to do none the less. Macrium did what I wanted for free and Aomei did it's job for free. I only took an extra 2 minutes.
I like free.
For my other computer where I have to make it go from MBR to GPT, I don't want complicated, so I might end up purchasing Aomei because I think it can take the MBR and make it GPT. I'm going to have to read up on that though.

 

[USAFRet]

It was easy to do none the less. Macrium did what I wanted for free and Aomei did it's job for free. I only took an extra 2 minutes.
I like free.
For my other computer where I have to make it go from MBR to GPT, I don't want complicated, so I might end up purchasing Aomei because I think it can take the MBR and make it GPT. I'm going to have to read up on that though.

Free from Microsoft, MBR2GPT
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt

 

[ingeborgdot]

Man, you guys are good at this stuff though. I just am good at tinkering. I am learning a lot from many of you, but it looks a little more complex than I'm wanting to do right now. I'll take a look at it again and see if that is what I want to do.
Thanks.