Create new partition on new drives unallocated space. Q3: Is this the best way to test that the new drive boots, or should I uncheck old drive in UEFI 3. Then don't touch that drive again, there's really no reason to.Īlso, you should create the image right before copying it over onto the new drive, that way it's most recent. Perform clone Q2: Should I leave the drive letter in the Layout section of the cloning tool as Auto 2.
My suggestion would be to use your software again to make a new drive image, then use the software again to check on your clone. It's not the best of ideas to boot into the clone to test if the clone has worked, because chances are that, if there was an error, you are not going to find it that way. Your idea is sound, I would have proceeded in the same way I personally wouldn't have used Macrium Reflect, as there are other non-proprietary tools to create drive images, and would have used such tools to also check, after the cloning, for checksums.
If anyone wants more information or the startup repair log just ask! SSD: m.2 samsung 250gb (only ~108gb of its storage is full) I cloned it using macrium reflect which I've used many times and has worked flawlessly every time except for this one time. I've checked the hdd and the ssd both for errors and both are fine. I did the fix startup option and it found nothing wrong and gave me a log but it just says nothing is wrong. I have tried almost every option possible in that menu that fixes the startup except for the complete windows reset.
Each time I boot it starts and shows the spinning circle and then it momentarily turns the pc off and back on and says starting automatic repair. The 500gb m.2 ssd hasn't arrived yet so I went to test the hdd to make sure the clone completed successfully but there's a problem. I cloned the data from the 250gb m.2 ssd to my hdd with about 2 gb left on the hdd. That's the idea, the reality is much different. Then after the new 500gb m.2 ssd arrives in the mail I boot off the cloned hdd and copy the files over to the 500gb m.2 ssd. My idea was to clone the data from the 250gb m.2 ssd to a sata HDD I have using a usb to sata adaptor and sata hdd I already own. To transfer the files over I would need a m.2 adapter to usb and I don't have one and most adaptors I've seen are expensive.
I am replacing my 250gb m.2 ssd with a 500gb one.