Question Transferring internal hard drive 500 GB SSD to 2 TB SSD

[thedonvito22]

I am using adobe after effect and am running out of room on hard drive. I would like to replace my current SSD from 500 GB to 2 TB.
Adobe AE currently runs on my C: drive I want to keep it there.

My Desktop Specs:
Asus Motherboard Rog Maximus XI Hero (WI-FI) Rev 1
Processor: Intel Core i9-9900KF CPU 3.60 Ghz
Ram 128 GB

On my motherboard it shows 2 storage sockets for SSD
1 x M.2 Socket 3, with M key, type 2242/2260/2280 storage devices support (SATA & PCIE 3.0 x 4 mode)*2
Intel® Z390 Chipset :

1 x M.2 Socket 3, with M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 storage devices support (PCIE 3.0 x 4 mode)
Support Raid 0, 1, 5, 10
Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready
6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s)

I want to change my 500 GB SSD Hard drive C:/ to partition windows on the new SSD 2TB drive. I’m thinking of using the program Macrium Reflect to move all information to new hard drive.
Can this be done by installing new hard drive into memory socket? I feel like I’m missing a few steps.

 

[thedonvito22]

So far so good. Clone worked. ran into some issues on cloning. ran a disk check "read only" error would not clone. could not check disk while PC was running got error disk was in use. ran it at boot up and it seemed to clear everything up. No fix needed. Booted with new 2.0 SSD drive and works great. I had to partition during cloning and then extend partition after clone. now I need to format disk and you recommendation is to use command line. I'll run in now see what happens.

 

[MattMMMan17]

A properly done clone, the target drive works exactly the same as the old drive.


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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Thank you for this! I was looking to find out how to swap out my small SSD running my OS for a larger one. Can you please clarify for me that this should work using your instructions? It seems since the new SSD isn't Samsung I can use Macrium and just should install the Hynix driver first, do I have that right?

Mobo is MSI B450-A PRO

C Drive is: Samsung Evo 860 250Gb 2.5" SATA
Desired replacement is: sk Hynix Gold P31 500Gb M.2 2280

I also have 2 WD Black drives for add'l storage.

SSD and 2 Black drives are backed up to a WD Passport for system recovery.

Thanks for your time.

 

[USAFRet]

Thank you for this! I was looking to find out how to swap out my small SSD running my OS for a larger one. Can you please clarify for me that this should work using your instructions? It seems since the new SSD isn't Samsung I can use Macrium and just should install the Hynix driver first, do I have that right?

C Drive is: Samsung Evo 860 250Gb 2.5" SATA
Desired replacement is: sk Hynix Gold P31 500Gb M.2 2280

I also have 2 WD Black drives for add'l storage.

SSD and 2 Black drives are backed up to a WD Passport for system recovery.

Thanks for your time.

You probably don't even need the Hynix driver.