How to clone/restore to a replacement SSD

Daffy · April 19

Hi

I'm confused, but that's nothing unusual. I've got a Dell Inspiron and going to upgrade the storage from 224 GB to 1TB. I'm replacing with the same storage type "Dell M.2 PCIe NVME Gen 3x4 Class 35 2230 Solid State Drive". Intention is to create a bootable system USB, remove the current 224 GB SSD and fit the new blank 1TB SSD and then restore, or clone, or whatever I need to do.

I've read the instruction manual and loads on the AOMEI website, but just can't get my head around what to do.

So, two questions . . . I think:

1) What do I do to create a system (including applications, data, etc) backed up and bootable USB?

2) What to then restore, or clone, or whatever I need to do on the new 1TB SSD using the USB?

Thanks in anticipation

Daffy

aiArtisan · April 19

Welcome Daffy, the good news is you picked a great product to help you with this, and there are many ways you could do that. For new users under normal situations, I recommend simply using Aomei Partition Assistant to clone your current disk to your new disk, if you can connect the both at the same time. Most new PCs have multiple NVMe slots, or if you don't have multiple slots, you could use an external NVMe USB reader. Then restart and boot to your new disk. If that does not work, please clone again using Exact-Sector-By-Sector setting. It is not required to use the USB utility. Aomei Backupper also can clone your disk, but in my years of experience with Aomei, I have found Partition Assistant clone with Exact-Sector-By-Sector setting has the highest success rate.

You could instead use BU to create a system backup image, and then use the USB utility to restore the image to your new disk. If that does not work, please try BU backup again, using Universal Restore setting.

Backupper WinPE USB:

Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary. Does not work on some Monitors.

Partition Assistant WinPE USB:

Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary.

Aomei (Win)PE Builder USB:

Best for PCs before 2020, includes Partition Assistant, Backupper, Recuva, 7zip, OSF Mount, CPU

Backupper Pro Edition

Keeps license activated when updating Pro version

Backupper Manual
https://www.aomeitech.com/docs/AOMEI_Backupper_UserManual.pdf

Backupper Guide

Partition Assistant Manual

Partition Assistant General Help Topics

admin · April 24

@Daffy, You can boot from the source disk, and then create a disk backup:
You might need to save the backup image file to an external drive.
As for creating winpe bootable media, please refer to here:
Then, you can connect the new disk, and boot computer from WinPE to do the restore.

How to clone/restore to a replacement SSD

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