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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.
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On cloning make sure you clone the entire drive, not just the "C" partition.
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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.
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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.