I created a Acronis Recovery thumb drive and also a clone image of the HDD on an external USB HDD.
This is a late follow-up, but maybe it will help someone else.īottom line is that I was successful in adding a SSD to a ASUS ROG laptop, leaving the HDD in the laptop, and making the SSD the boot drive.Īnd along the way, Acronis clone S/W save me from bricking the PC. Does the old HDD need to be removed/disconnected when first re-booting on the new SSD? Question: When in this process should I re-format the old HDD? I have read the precaution not to have 2 bootable drives in a Windows machine. Re-boot into BIOS and tell BIOS to boot from the SSD Use Acronis to do a full restore from the external USB-connected HDD to the new SSD.Ħ. Boot laptop using the rescue thumb drive.ĥ. Create a full disk image backup of the HDD and all partitions to an external USB-connected HDDĤ. Create an Acronis bootable rescue thumb drive, and verify it is bootable.Ģ. In the future the HDD will only be used for file storage.ġ. The goal is to transfer the operating system, hidden partitions, all programs and files to the new SSD.
The total space presently used on the HDD is about 150GB. I have purchased a PCIE 500GB SSD that will be installed in the open PCIE slot. I have a Windows 10 laptop with a 1TB HDD. I am new to the forum, so please excuse me if this is an old topic.
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