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Hi all, been a loooong time since I've added a new drive to a system (like WinXP era) that was going to become a new boot drive so I'm a little unsure of my options. Original config was a 500GB NVME gen 3 boot drive and a 2TB SATA (C and D respectively). I just added a 2TB NVME gen 4 to the system that for now is labeled as H (due to already configured external drive, blue ray burner, etc). I'm planning in the next few weeks to reinstall windows either 10 or moving to 11 finally most likely and that will be the new gen 4 drive and it will of course become C drive. I plan to leave the old 500GB in the system though. If I don't wipe it out during the install to the new drive, what happens at boot? Am I going to get a boot manager forcing me to choose which drive to boot? If so what happens when I do wipe that drive after making sure everything is off of it? My other thought was for now to use Acronis or similar (new drive is a WD) to move the current contents of the older NVME drive to the new one (clone it) then still do the reinstall to 11 later. Again though, I'm not sure what happens after that if I then leave the old NVME in the system while I verify the clone worked and therefore don't need anything off of it. And if I go that route, what happens to the drive letters for the two? I know Acronis will wipe the H partition on the new drive, but what happens with the partitions and drive letters for the older 500GB boot drive when the new cloned drive becomes C drive? edit: Or maybe I don't worry about putting an OS on the gen 4 since the gen 3 is already fast enough and I almost never reboot? Then just move various apps etc to it instead?
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Re: Added new drive, need migration/windows install advice/info
2022/07/06 08:53:31
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flyinion
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Re: Added new drive, need migration/windows install advice/info
2022/07/06 10:09:35
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yodap I've had good luck with Aomei Backupper Standard Edition. Many successful clones. Freeware.
Thanks, I do have access to multiple software products that will clone etc., just not sure of the impact of leaving the old drive in the system with a bootable OS on it etc. So for now I was leaning towards just leaving the new drive blank and when it's time to do the new Windows install, pull all drives except the new one, install windows, then plug drives back in. Still not sure then what will happen when BIOS etc sees another bootable drive. I assume I just make sure the correct drive is the boot priority and because the new install doesn't know about the other drive at install time that there won't be any extra windows boot manager type junk appearing
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Re: Added new drive, need migration/windows install advice/info
2022/07/06 10:35:46
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Yep you have many options when you decide the direction you want to go. Aomei, Macrium Reflect, Acronis or even Minitool Partition Wizard will do what you need. I would make an image backup of your existing win10 as a precaution with whatever software you decide to use and create a bootable version as well. Good luck!
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Re: Added new drive, need migration/windows install advice/info
2022/07/06 11:25:26
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You are going to notice zero real world gains to be honest. Unless you are constantly moving large files to and from your main OS drive then you may see a small performance gain. But in day to day use and general tasks there will be virtually no perceptible difference between gen 3 and gen 4 NVMe drives. My advice? Just move whatever files/games you want to the new drive and leave the 500GB gen 3 drive as the boot drive it's still plenty fast enough. EDIT: Also just remembered this video: Most people can't even tell the difference between a SATA SSD and and a NVME SSD, much less gen 3 and gen 4 NVME: https://www.youtube.com/w...4DKLA7w9eeA&t=501s
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Re: Added new drive, need migration/windows install advice/info
2022/07/06 12:07:30
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CraptacularOne You are going to notice zero real world gains to be honest. Unless you are constantly moving large files to and from your main OS drive then you may see a small performance gain. But in day to day use and general tasks there will be virtually no perceptible difference between gen 3 and gen 4 NVMe drives. My advice? Just move whatever files/games you want to the new drive and leave the 500GB gen 3 drive as the boot drive it's still plenty fast enough. EDIT: Also just remembered this video: Most people can't even tell the difference between a SATA SSD and and a NVME SSD, much less gen 3 and gen 4 NVME: https://www.youtube.com/w...4DKLA7w9eeA&t=501s
If you are writing extremely large files you will notice a slight difference between gen 3 and gen 4. Otherwise what CraptacularOne has said is completely true.
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Re: Added new drive, need migration/windows install advice/info
2022/07/06 14:25:24
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Hmmm good idea then on the leaving the 500GB gen 3 as a boot drive and just using the gen 4. Like I said, the stuff I mainly would use it for has nothing to do with booting etc. so yeah probably not worth it. Plus it's a lot easier to then just leave Windows and minimal other things on the old 500GB one and be able to just wipe it etc without worrying as much if I got everything backed up first. Sure I could create a small boot partition on the new one for the same effect, but that just complicates things with a 4th partition for stuff at that point
post edited by flyinion - 2022/07/06 14:29:33
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Re: Added new drive, need migration/windows install advice/info
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Re: Added new drive, need migration/windows install advice/info
2022/07/07 12:55:27
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Since it's a WD drive you can always use the Acronis that works with Western Digital drives to clone the drive for free (takes one of the drives being made by Western Digital to work) Software and Firmware Downloads | WD Support (wdc.com) the other drive might also have cloning software provided on the website for them. I have personally had problems with two bootable drives on modern systems with one being a clone of the other. On my system I just got a selection of booting to Windows 10 or boot to Windows 10 without giving any details on the drive but this was a couple years ago so maybe Microsoft fixed that in the boot loader.
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Re: Added new drive, need migration/windows install advice/info
2022/07/07 13:00:08
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What I like about NVME drives is my ASRock board has 3 M2 sockets so it cuts down on the amount of cables I need. And with prices much more reasonable, it's a no brainer for me.
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