![]() ![]() This is the machine where I want to upgrade the boot drive. All I did was to plug in the cables for the new drive. How Drive 0 became "D" and Drive 1 became "C" (boot drive) is a bit of a mystery. I installed the second internal drive before my first boot. Note: My Dell XPS 8920 come with the Intel Optane Memory already enabled. It appears to have the capability of resizing partitions during the clone. I will be using Seagate DiscWizard to perform the cloning operation. If possible, I would like to know what is in those partitions. The 1.12GB partition (end of the drive?) must be the Intel area, but why so big? The 12.9Gb partition must be the Windows Recovery area. Some of that information is on the HDD (to which users have no access*). If I am all wet about the clone/swap procedure, please give step-by-step instructions.Īpparently the system information is on the Optane SSD (to which users have no access*). The Intel Optane Memory Module 'appears' to be version M.2, but I could be wrong. In the image above, the "SATA (932 GB)" is the current boot 1TB HDD drive. ![]() If the system will reboot from the cloned 2TB replacement, will the "Rescan" process pick up the data for the new boot drive? Do I need to disable Optane Memory before swapping the drives, or will the system recognize the cloned (2TB) boot drive after the swap?Ģ. (I will temporarily remove the current 2TB "D" drive.)Īssuming that I clone the boot drive while Optane Memory is enabled:ġ. I want to replace the 1TB HDD OEM drive with a new 2TB HDD drive, after I clone the OEM drive. I also have a second internal drive, 2TB HDD. I re-installed formatted SSD and now it happily functions as a spot to store photos and videos and doesn't interfere with the boot sequences anymore since I completely nuked and paved it.I have a Dell XPS 8920 (circa 2017) with the Dell OEM 1TB HDD as boot drive (Drive C), and with Optane Memory enabled ("paired" to the boot drive). Importantly, the OS recovery tools that are sitting on the other partitions on the drive are untouched, so they can be referenced if this thing blows up again in a later upgrade.ġ2. After reinstalling windows and running Windows Update, it seemed to finally run fine and restart correctly. Booted to USB and had to fully reinstall Windows 10, losing all files and pre-installed Dell applications upon re-install.ġ1. Physically disconnected formatted, shipped SATA.ġ0. Downloaded Windows 10 USB Install Media using my other laptop.ĩ. For me, upon restart, received BSOD saying a necessary drive is not present.Ĩ. (check youtube for videos on how to use it and be 100% sure you are booted on the NVMe).Ħ. (optional) Format old SATA using command screen diskpart utility in order destroy all partitions. (I didn't do, but should have) Physically disconnect shipped SATA and check that the computer can boot up with only NVMe physically connected.ĥ. Restart and tried again a few times, just to be sure this NVMe didn't have any potential physical or driver problems.Ĥ.5. Select the NVMe as the boot drive in F12 and verify correct operation. Restart and Press & hold F12 during bootĤ. Used Macrium Reflect Free to clone the SATA completely to the new NVMe SSD.ģ. Physically installed the new NVME SSD (of the same capacity as the shipped SATA).Ģ. For me, this was a newly shipped R12, so I didn't care about losing any files.ġ. For future reference I will post the steps I took below in case anyone wants to try to move their boot drive to a new NVMe SSD and avoid several mistakes I made. If you clone from a SATA to an NVMe drive, is there anything to be careful of considering the drives are two different types? Once you clone to a new NVMe SSD drive, how can you successfully boot off the SSD drive and make sure the Alienware Aurora R12 is pointed to always boot off the SSD?Ģ. The only options listed are "Windows Boot Manager", "IPv4", and "IPv6".ġ (most important). However, I cannot change the boot drive in the BIOS. Originally I had thought I could simply go into the BIOS, point to boot off the new SSD drive and then reformat the old hard drive to be a storage drive once I was able to successfully and automatically boot off the SSD. I want to now reconfigure the Alienware Aurora R12 to boot and run off the NVMe SSD. I don't want a clean install because I want the NVMe to be the one to have all those other DELL Support, etc. I installed the 2 TB NVMe in the M.2 slot and used the cloning software Macrium Reflect Free to clone the SATA HDD contents to the NVMe. I had a 2TB NVMe M.2 available, which I intended to install immediately after receiving the desktop.Ĭurrently, the R12 boots and runs off the slow SATA HDD. I recently purchased the Alienware Aurora R12 with only the 2TB SATA HDD option. ![]()
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