Question Upgrade my main SSD ?

[RickVS]

Thanks. Before I saw this I did this (also, it's a 2 TB drive). Will this work or is the order of the partitions important?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, that should work.

 

[RickVS]

Thanks for your help. It's running. Fingers crossed . . .

 

[RickVS]

Hi. So, the clone was mostly successful. It didn't seem to be a perfect one to one transfer but that's okay. Everything mostly works. My issue is that I can't get the box to recognize my two internal hard drives. Using the M.2 SSD means that SATA 5 & 6 are unavailable to me, however I have plugged these drives into every connector and they still aren't recognized. Am I missing something here? Is there another means of identifying SATA 1 - 4? Thanks.

 

[USAFRet]

Hi. So, the clone was mostly successful. It didn't seem to be a perfect one to one transfer but that's okay. Everything mostly works. My issue is that I can't get the box to recognize my two internal hard drives. Using the M.2 SSD means that SATA 5 & 6 are unavailable to me, however I have plugged these drives into every connector and they still aren't recognized. Am I missing something here? Is there another means of identifying SATA 1 - 4? Thanks.

Other than these SATA drives, the clone works?
You've disconnected the old OS drive and are booting 100% from the new one?

 

[RickVS]

Yes, I don't need the original and removed it. The BIOS does recognize that SATA 4 is connected, but File Explorer only reports on the new C: drive.

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, I don't need the original and removed it. The BIOS does recognize that SATA 4 is connected, but File Explorer only reports on the new C: drive.

What does your Disk Management look like?

 

[RickVS]

Disk Mgmt reports the C: drive and a removeable drive J. Not sure what that is. Is my assumption correct that each individual data connector on the ribbon represents a different SATA port?

 

[USAFRet]

Disk Mgmt reports the C: drive and a removeable drive J. Not sure what that is. Is my assumption correct that each individual data connector on the ribbon represents a different SATA port?

'On the ribbon' ?

That sounds like the SATA power connection.

The data cable(s) go direct from the drive(s) to the motherboard, individually.