Cloning small M2 SSD onto larger SSD D drive
Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 2:57 pm
I am trying to clone my 128GB M2 SATA drive with Windows 10, moving it onto a 1TB 2.5" drive on the same machine.
The 2.5" drive is currently my D (data) drive and has over 580GB free on it. My thinking was to reduce the D partition to allow space for a 300gb C partition.
In the long battle over C drive disk space, many programs and program files are now on the D drive using Windows symbolic links to point to the new location. Therefore the cloned C drive will retain those references, and I suspected that the D drive had to remain in place when I tried cloning the C drive.
I made disk images using R-Drive Image onto a backup USB drive just in case.
I thought that trying to move C onto the 2.5" drive on a live install might be problematic, so I cloned the C drive onto a new 1TB 2.5" drive using a USB adapter. I then removed the M2 drive and tried to start up with the new C drive still in the USB adapter. The Dell Inspiron 5577 would not start.
I have now re-installed the M2 drive and am operational -- with the same space issues of course.
Can someone suggest a way to accomplish this?
Thank you -- Tony
The 2.5" drive is currently my D (data) drive and has over 580GB free on it. My thinking was to reduce the D partition to allow space for a 300gb C partition.
In the long battle over C drive disk space, many programs and program files are now on the D drive using Windows symbolic links to point to the new location. Therefore the cloned C drive will retain those references, and I suspected that the D drive had to remain in place when I tried cloning the C drive.
I made disk images using R-Drive Image onto a backup USB drive just in case.
I thought that trying to move C onto the 2.5" drive on a live install might be problematic, so I cloned the C drive onto a new 1TB 2.5" drive using a USB adapter. I then removed the M2 drive and tried to start up with the new C drive still in the USB adapter. The Dell Inspiron 5577 would not start.
I have now re-installed the M2 drive and am operational -- with the same space issues of course.
Can someone suggest a way to accomplish this?
Thank you -- Tony