Transfer data from 250gb ssd to 2tb ssd?

[Mark Kaine]

I'd usually just copy the thing but there are some some emulators installed, also steam games, virtual dj, and also my pictures and music folders... so if i just copy the thing most of the stuff won't work and it'll be a hassle to make windows recognize it again i suppose  - so simple question: if i clone the drive to the new one there shouldn't be a problem, right? And then expand the volume or something because the new drive is obviously bigger?  Just asking if that's the best way to transfer the data?

 

(its a mx500 which comes with acronis clone software afaik)

[Needfuldoer]

19 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

if i clone the drive to the new one there shouldn't be a problem, right? And then expand the volume or something because the new drive is obviously bigger?  Just asking if that's the best way to transfer the data?

That's what I'd do in this situation.

[PDifolco]

13 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

I'd usually just copy the thing but there are some some emulators installed, also steam games, virtual dj, and also my pictures and music folders... so if i just copy the thing most of the stuff won't work and it'll be a hassle to make windows recognize it again i suppose  - so simple question: if i clone the drive to the new one there shouldn't be a problem, right? And then expand the volume or something because the new drive is obviously bigger?  Just asking if that's the best way to transfer the data?

 

(its a mx500 which comes with acronis clone software afaik)

Both are SATA ? And the original is a boot drive right ?

If yes it should work no problem

[Mark Kaine]

7 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Both are SATA ? And the original is a boot drive right ?

If yes it should work no problem

its not the bootdrive, i would still want to clone it so the links and programs don't get messed up (there's also one windows folder im not sure i need, but would want to clone that too)

 

so that's the question does it actually matter if it's the boot drive or not?

 

i just know the drive needs to have the exact same name and drive letter for this to work...

 maybe im overthinking it but the stuff is all associated with several other programs ( as said there's so much stuff on it, save files, emulators, music...) 

[OddOod]

20 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

so that's the question does it actually matter if it's the boot drive or not?

 

Yes

If you just move the data, unmount the HDD, mount the SSD with the same drive letter, you should be fine

 

[PDifolco]

29 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

its not the bootdrive, i would still want to clone it so the links and programs don't get messed up (there's also one windows folder im not sure i need, but would want to clone that too)

 

so that's the question does it actually matter if it's the boot drive or not?

 

i just know the drive needs to have the exact same name and drive letter for this to work...

 maybe im overthinking it but the stuff is all associated with several other programs ( as said there's so much stuff on it, save files, emulators, music...) 

If it's not the boot drive a simple file copy will work as well, as long as the new drive gets the old drive's letter

Windows keeps install data in its registry (on boot drive) and saves and such in the users folders of the boot drive as well

[Agall]

1 hour ago, Mark Kaine said:

so simple question: if i clone the drive to the new one there shouldn't be a problem, right? And then expand the volume or something because the new drive is obviously bigger?  Just asking if that's the best way to transfer the data?

 

(its a mx500 which comes with acronis clone software afaik)

Whenever I Acronis TI clone or back+restore to a larger drive, the rest of it is just unallocated. So, you then just expand in disk management to get the rest of the volume. The other way around is complicated, where I have to shrink the volume (assuming the actual data can fit) to match the smaller drive which usually works.

[Mark Kaine]

On 5/22/2024 at 5:13 PM, PDifolco said:

If it's not the boot drive a simple file copy will work as well, as long as the new drive gets the old drive's letter

Windows keeps install data in its registry (on boot drive) and saves and such in the users folders of the boot drive as well

the main issue with this theory is

 

 

id need to assign "D" but i cant because that's obviously already taken.

 

On 5/22/2024 at 5:25 PM, Agall said:

Whenever I Acronis TI clone or back+restore to a larger drive, the rest of it is just unallocated. So, you then just expand in disk management to get the rest of the volume. The other way around is complicated, where I have to shrink the volume (assuming the actual data can fit) to match the smaller drive which usually works.

 

On 5/22/2024 at 4:29 PM, Needfuldoer said:

That's what I'd do in this situation.

so how do i do this now? 

 

assign no drive letter? 

cancel?

 

i still think i should clone the drive but i had to initialize the new drive first anyway, right?

 

 

[PDifolco]

40 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

the main issue with this theory is

 

 

id need to assign "D" but i cant because that's obviously already taken.

 

 

so how do i do this now? 

 

assign no drive letter? 

cancel?

 

i still think i should clone the drive but i had to initialize the new drive first anyway, right?

 

 

For the drive letter issue just swap them after copy using a temporary third letter : D becomes Z then E becomes D (free now) then Z becomes E 

It doesn't matter how it's called when copying 

[Poinkachu]

1 hour ago, PDifolco said:

For the drive letter issue just swap them after copy using a temporary third letter : D becomes Z then E becomes D (free now) then Z becomes E 

It doesn't matter how it's called when copying 

^^ exactly what I did a few days ago

[Agall]

7 hours ago, Mark Kaine said:

the main issue with this theory is

 

 

id need to assign "D" but i cant because that's obviously already taken.

 

 

so how do i do this now? 

 

assign no drive letter? 

cancel?

 

i still think i should clone the drive but i had to initialize the new drive first anyway, right?

 

 

Outside of Acronis True Image, I'm not sure. Its a software I inherited and works great with the right tricks. Its got its own boot environment, so you're cloning from there and not in Windows.

[Mark Kaine]

On 5/24/2024 at 8:36 AM, PDifolco said:

For the drive letter issue just swap them after copy using a temporary third letter : D becomes Z then E becomes D (free now) then Z becomes E 

It doesn't matter how it's called when copying 

yeah, this worked... its just i think if there's like certain windows files it might not... but as far i can tell it worked... so thanks.