Cloning a hard drive to ssd4/7/2024 (I’d never seen an mSATA drive before, so it took me a while to figure out it was there.) It looks like your suggested steps will be the way to go, but I need to ask you a bit more because I’d never heard of Intel Smart Response Technology before you mentioned it. By opening the lid as you suggested (and giving myself a “Duh!” forehead slap for not thinking of that before), I found that there is indeed a little mSATA 32GB SSD on the motherboard as well as the 2TB hard drive in a drive bay. Unfortunately, the reply from Paul T indicates that the situation is more complicated than I T: Many thanks for your very helpful reply. Thanks for any help that may be Thanks for the idea of using a recovery disk I hadn’t thought of that. (2) If the cloning is successful and I make the new 256GB SSD my Windows+apps drive, can I use the hybrid drive solely as a data drive? I assume I’d have to reformat the hybrid drive to remove Windows from it, but again, does it being a hybrid drive cause any problems in re-purposing it to being a data drive only? However, does the source drive being a hybrid introduce any obstacles or complications in the cloning? ![]() (1) Can I clone the hybrid drive to the 256GB SSD? (The 2TB hybrid drive has only about 30GB used on it, so space shouldn’t be a problem on the 256GB drive, right?) I’ve successfully cloned a 512GB hard drive to a 512GB SSD for my laptop using Mini-Tools Partition Wizard, and I’d like to use that program again if possible. I have zero experience with hybrid drives, so before I do anything foolish, I’m asking for help with the following questions: This is apparently a Seagate hybrid hard drive with a 32GB internal solid state cache (though I can’t find much of anything about this model online). To my surprise when I booted the new machine, it actually has only a single drive, identified by Device Manager as a ST2000DM001-1ER. My plan was to replace the 32GB SSD (by cloning it) with a 256GB SSD, which would then be my system+apps drive I would then use the 2TB hard drive solely as a data drive. The description of the system’s hard drive on the website read “2TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6.0 Gb/s + 32GB SSD”, which I took to mean two separate drives, namely, a 32GB SSD (which I assumed would hold Windows and possibly a few other programs) and a 2TB hard drive (for everything else). I just bought from the Costco website a new Dell XPS 8700 with Windows 8.1 and 16GB of RAM. No submissions about memes, jokes, meta, or hypothetical / dream builds.For the past decade, I’ve gotten many useful tips and solutions from the Lounge, but my search didn’t find anything on my current problem, so here I am.No titles that are all-caps, clickbait, PSAs, pro-tips or contain emoji. ![]() No submissions about retailer or customer service experiences.No submissions about sales, deals or unauthorized giveaways.No submissions about hardware news, rumors, or reviews.Please keep in mind that we are here to help you build a computer, not to build it for you. ![]() Submit Build Help/Ready post Submit Troubleshooting post Submit other post New Here? BuildAPC Beginner's Guide Live Chat on Discord Daily Simple Questions threads
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