![]() ![]() Two hours down the drain, for leaving the old drive plugged in. ![]() So I cloned again it and immediately after the clone turned of the old drive, then it worked. I did a lot of fiddling around trying to get it to work, but no luck. Turns out, windows doesn’t like if you leave the old drive in. However after it did its thing, and I tried to boot from the new M.2 drive it just got a black screen. (Note first I tried with Samsung own Data Migration – which didn’t work because it couldn’t detect the OEM drive).Īcronis True Image tool is very simple, so it was easy to start the clone process. As I remembered it, it just worked, so wanted to use that again today. Last time I upgraded SSD in one of the other machine I used a free version of Acronis True Image, that came with an Kingston SSD. Today I moved data from an old Samsung Evo 850, 256 GB SATA SSD, to another 512 GB Samsung M.2 drive (I don’t have the exact model, as it is an OEM drive that was pulled from a Razer laptop) – however testing showed that it was significantly faster, so good upgrade. However every time I need to clone a boot drive it seems that I end up spending more time than I like, because of crappy tools that don’t work (or maybe they do, but they don’t work for me). This goes for boot drives as well as storage drives (lately the storage drives have lasted a lot longer, because I don’t acquire that much data, and drives are so big). My standard procedure for data protection is that I buy new faster and better drive every other year, and copy stuff over, and leave the old drives in a drawer, in case of emergency they can be used. This post is mostly a memo for myself, but maybe it can help you next time you need to clone a SSD or an M.2 drive and save you some time trying to find tools that works. Interesting articles about Azure, Docker and Office 365īy Simon J.K. ![]()
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