Clone M2 Drive To M2 Drive

[GazzaMataz]

OK I have a 512gb M2 drive with Windows on and another 1gb M2 which I use for data. My PC supports three M2 drives. My 512gb is getting too small so I thought I would clone Windows from it on to my larger M2. For this I was going to use Acronis and I have watched a couple of tuts but I have a few questions. If I clone from my C: 512gb M2 to my F: 1gb M2 will the F drive become C: drive or stay as F? Also if I keep both drives in the PC presumably I would have to go to my boot menu and choose the larger M2 as my boot drive. Also once I have done this the one time I can then reformat the old 512 drive and use that for data and also change the drive letters around?

Any tips most welcome and thanks in advance

 

[GazzaMataz]

Thanks for the reply champ222. The method that I have watched using Acronis it to create an Acronis USB Boot Drive where you boot up from that USB drive and then use the Acronis software to clone your drives. One other thing I have seen is that once you have cloned your drive it seems that if you try to reformat your old drive you have to remove all the partitions since a simple format won't work. You have to go into command prompt and clear the old drive out then format/initialise it.

 

[GazzaMataz]

Thanks for all the replies peeps - much appreciated. I got it all working in the end using Acronis. So what I did was create a boot disk from Acronis (after backing everything up) and then simply cloned my M2 512 to my M2 1gb. It took a while and I had to go into the BIOS/UEFI and set the boot priority to the larger M2 and it all works it even swapped the drive letters around for me which I didn't expect, so F (1tb M2) became C and C (512mb) became F -Happy Bunny!

Hope this helps others out there who might be contemplating the same swap and the best thing is it cost me nothing