We did some testing on the with our software "guru" and his testing showed cloning was a hit or miss.
There is also the possibility cloning will not work for you. I didn't clone the entire drive and it didn't work. I ran into that a couple years ago trying to close a drive to a larger drive. On cloning make sure you clone the entire drive, not just the "C" partition. The restore only configured the new larger drive for 256GB (it would do the same thing on a Clone) and I used the free version of "Mini Tool Partition Wizard" to reclaim the unused 256GB partition. I booted with a USB Flash Drive (Macrium Rescue Media) and then did a restore from the external USB drive to the new 512GB M.2 SSD. I then removed the 256 M.2 SSD and installed the 512. I used Macrium Reflect V7 (Free) to image the entire 256GB SSD (all partitions) to an external USB connected Drive. I had no way to clone since it was an M.2 SSD and only one slot. I upgraded the M.2 SSD in my Dell Inspiron 15 laptop to a larger M.2 SSD (went from 256 to 512GB). 64GB SSD with Win7 SP1, 500GB 3.5 HDD for all non-system stuff, optical drive, 8GB ram Thank you.ĭell Optiplex 3020 Mini Tower, Intel quad core i5-4460S 2.9 GHz. I'd very much appreciate your help & advice. Using Disk Management, is it safe to remove or change the drive letter? So it now shows up in Windows Explorer & conflicts with my USB backup drive letter! Problem 2 : not so much a problem, but Macrium also gave a drive letter to my 100Mb Sys Res partition. PS - I've yet to boot test the 120 GB cloned SSD, but wonder if its BootMgr will also be missing? Has anyone experienced this problem? Your advice & ideas would be welcome. I was able to restore BootMgr using Disk Part. That was the plan! But all I got was 'Boot Manager is missing' !! I've never had that message before, so I assume that Macrium caused a problem with BootMgr in my Sys Res partition. After a shutdown, I removed the new 120 GB SSD, & rebooted to my smaller SDD. The cloning was quick & went with no errors. Problem 1: my Dell Optiplex 3020, has an 60 GB SSD which I cloned to a new & larger 120 GB SSD, using Macrium Free via a USB stick.
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