Toshiba Satelite + Crucial MX-300 = NEED HELP INSTALLING

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I have a Toshiba Satellite C55-A5302, running Windows 10, with a 500gb HDD currently inside, with only about 200gb used. I purchased a Crucial MX-300 1TB (CT8625742 CT1050MX300SSD1.PK01 1050GB).

I have read through the installation procedures on the Crucial website, which led me to Acronis 2015. The installation procedures for each of these are contradicting, as Crucial states you connect SSD through USB and clone, while Acronis states you install SSD inside laptop, and connect HDD through USB and clone that way.
Either way, I am unable to clone. Here's what happens: (I may record and upload a video of what my computer does if no responses)

When leaving SSD thru USB
Open Acronis, select Clone. (SSD states not initialized?)
Acronis prompts a restart, laptop restarts, nothing happens. back at the beginning.

Installing SSD inside, HDD thru USB
power on
attempts to diagnose,
takes me to BIOS, i select usb, it says can not boot from USB.

I have searched extensively for a way to clone or any other reasonable way to install and USE my new SSD, though have been unsuccessful. If using an external hard drive to restore and boot from is easiest, and most likely to work, i will have to go out and grab an ext hd, though id rather not spend more money on storage.
 
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1. We're assuming your present boot drive - the 500 GB HDD - boots & functions without ANY problems. If that's incorrect stop right here.

2. You're apparently incorrectly using Acronis - at least that what it seems from the description of the process you followed.

3. Forget about Acronis. Try this disk-cloning program (Casper) that we have been using for a number of years and which I heartily recommend for its ease of use, general effectiveness, and speed.

Although the program is a commercial one costing $49.99 there is a Trial Edition available which you could use and hopefully it will be successful as it relates to your situation so I would urge you to give it a try.

Here are some instructions for using the program...

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1. We're assuming your present boot drive - the 500 GB HDD - boots & functions without ANY problems. If that's incorrect stop right here.

2. You're apparently incorrectly using Acronis - at least that what it seems from the description of the process you followed.

3. Forget about Acronis. Try this disk-cloning program (Casper) that we have been using for a number of years and which I heartily recommend for its ease of use, general effectiveness, and speed.

Although the program is a commercial one costing $49.99 there is a Trial Edition available which you could use and hopefully it will be successful as it relates to your situation so I would urge you to give it a try.

Here are some instructions for using the program...

1. Download/install the Casper Trial Edition 10 (v10.0.6044) disk-cloning program from: https://www.fssdev.com/products/casper/trial/

2. Before undertaking the disk-cloning operation close all open programs. (Generally you need not disable your anti-virus program). Ensure your destination drive - the 1 TB SSD proposed recipient of the clone - is properly connected in the system as a USB external drive. I assume you're using an external USB enclosure to house the Crucial SSD or one of those USB-to-SATA cables for the connection or some such.

3. After opening the Casper program, click "Add drive" and a window open listing the destination drive, i.e., your SSD. Click on that disk's listing and then "Yes" on the confirmation message that follows.

4. Click on "Back up now".

5. Casper will begin the disk-cloning operation running in the background. If you want to view the progress of the disk-cloning operation click on the Casper icon visible on the Taskbar or in the Notification area of the Taskbar.

6. Following the (hopefully!) successful disk-cloning operation disconnect the 500 GB HDD source drive from the system and connect the newly-cloned SSD.

7. Boot to the newly-cloned SSD to ensure it boots & properly functions.

8. Casper will generally utilize the entire disk-space of the destination drive to contain the total data contents from the source drive. If the program creates only a ~500 GB partition (the same size of your source drive), the remainder of the 1 TB drive will be "unallocated" disk-space. You can use Disk Management to "Extend" the created partition to encompass part or the entire unallocated disk-space.

Give it a try and let us know the results, OK?
 
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This worked! I'm up and running with the SSD, utilizing the Casper tool. I have attached a screenshot of my disk management screen, it doesnt have the right click menu, but when i do right click on the C Drive, extend is grayed out, does this mean it is all good and ready? Thanks for the help!



 
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Glad to hear the disk-cloning operation was successful.

The reason the “Extend Volume” is grayed-out when you right-click on the C partition is because the “Recovery” partitions are “in the way” that prevents the system from extending the C partition; the C partition can only be extended when the disk-space following the partition to be extended is “unallocated” disk-space. Because those “Recovery” partitions were on your “source” drive, i.e, the drive that was cloned, those partitions are also cloned to the “destination” drive, i.e, your 1 TB HDD. “A clone is a clone is a clone.”

Ordinarily I would suggest forgetting about the process to delete the Recovery partitions since generally they take up very little disk-space so in most cases you can live with that. But unfortunately that last Recovery partition takes up 10 GB of space and you're probably loathe to “lose” that 10 GB of space. If, however, you feel you can live with the current configuration including those three Recovery partitions, then leave things as they are as long as your 1 TB boot drive boots & functions problem-free as things now stand.

If, however, you desire to delete all three Recovery partitions and then be able to utilize the additional (roughly) 11+ GB of disk-space that would then be available for your C partition I can provide the process for doing so. It involves a slight change in the C partition's boot process. It's really a simple command that you would invoke and works nearly 100% of the time based on our experience. But there's ALWAYS a possibility that it won't “work” and the result will be an unbootable drive. It's why we ALWAYS urge that before invoking the command of which I speak the user should first clone the current boot drive (in your case the newly-cloned 1 TB boot HDD) to another drive just in case the process goes awry. That way the user can always return to the previous bootable/functional drive he/she had been working with. I trust you understand my explanation.
 
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