Clone 512 GB SSD Drive

I have a 256 GB SSD drive in my HP 450 G 3 and I want to install a 512 GB SSD drive which I just bought. the current 256 GB Drive has System NTFS,Windows NTFS.recovery NTFS,Tools FAT32 -- the new 512 GB SSD drive has a Primary unformatted partitions and a Primary NTFS partition-- I have a program Macrium Reflect program --do I wipe the 512 GB drive clean to start with or format it all???? I also have Drive Genius

James Skinner

 

I haven't used that program in years. If I remember correctly, you can delete the partition.

 

Hi quickshot, Are you using an SSD or a NVMe SSD?
I've got an HP and a Lenovo Laptop. Both had small capacity drives initially.
I used an external NVMe SSD holder which plugged into the USB "C" port.
You may need to "initialize" the new drive or just Fomat it.
If it's recognised in Explorer you just follow the Macrium cloning process.
You can Delete Partitions or Enlarge them during the Setup. (your choice).

When Cloning is finished on the new drive, you can swap over the small for larger drives and it should all work sweet as.

As a note. Both my Laptops were installed with either 64GB or 128GB drives and these were replaced with 1TB drives. The laptops both had installed 1TB SSD hard drives for "D" as the NVMe SSD was "c" drive OS.