Cloning 2 hard drives onto one large one

JustCallMeMrBeefy · Mar 12, 2014

i recently built a pc and i had 2 250 gb hard drives lying around so i used those so i could cut costs on my budget gaming rig... being 26 and living in hawaii its kinda rough but i got it made. and a few months later im running out of space and i want to put all of my non OS items onto a 2TB WD hard drive and put the OS on an SSD is there any way of doing this with acronis true image?

WyomingKnott · Mar 12, 2014

Yep. Unless you have a spare external hard drive around (which would make things a little simpler), the steps I suggest are
0) Determine whether your drive ports on the motherboard are in AHCI mode (good) or legacy ATA mode (bad).
1) Use Acronis True Image to make an image backup of your system drive to your new, blank 2TB drive.
2) With only the 2 TB drive and the SSD attached to the system, boot Acronis and restore to the SSD. Choose the tick-box for "Optimize for SSD." All this will do is ensure that you have proper 4K alignment, which is important for SSDs to operate efficiently.
3) With only the SSD attached to the system, boot to it. If step 0 was bad news, change the OS mode to use AHCI (I'll provide a link), power down, change the controller mode (if you don't know BIOS we will help) and reboot. You need to be in AHCI mode for the TRIM command to help keep your SSD working efficiently.
4) Now install the 2 TB drive and your old system drive. If it boots off your old system drive, fiddle with the BIOS until it doesn't. Dopy all your non-OS stuff to the space on the 2 TB drive that's not occupied by your image of your OS. You're saving that for a backup, just in case.

Anyone here will be happy to supply details for any step with which you need help. I'll do it for you, if you'll buy me a ticket to Hawaii.

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