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Area-51m R1, motherboard, PCIe 4.0 compatible?
I have Area 51m laptop I purchased a year ago. I want to upgrade my SSD. When I try to find what motherboard I have, all I see is Baseboard Product Alienware Area-51m, Baseboard version A00. Is there a way to figure that out?
crimsom
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November 30th, 2020 13:00
Hi @Shelby Co. Dell Support for Alienware Area-51M says Chipset / PCIe bus supports PCIe Gen3.
ejn63
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November 30th, 2020 14:00
You can clone the existing drive to the new one -- some manufacturers of SSDs provide software for that purpose. Macrium Reflect's free edition will work as well.
You will need a way to connect both drives at the same time -- but be sure you disconnect the original and boot just the new one in the system on the first post-clone boot-up.
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November 30th, 2020 11:00
It does not support PCIe v4. The first Intel mobile CPUs with PCIe v4 support are the 11th generation, for now available only in ultra-low power format. Your system uses a desktop Intel CPU, and the first with support for PCIe v4 support are slated to be released during the first quarter of 2021. The only desktop platform that now supports PCIe V4 uses AMD Ryzen CPUs and their chipsets.
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November 30th, 2020 14:00
@Shelby Co. There are several disk cloning applications, some of them both free and good. Macrium Reflect Free is one example, and Macrium has documentation for how to clone a disk. Otherwise, even if Windows came from your vendor, you can download Windows 10 directly from Microsoft by getting the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. It might not have some applications that Dell pre-installed on your system, but some people prefer a cleaner install, and it will also come with the latest release of Windows 10, whereas Dell's recovery media might use an outdated version.
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November 30th, 2020 14:00
Hey, thanks!
On a side note, is there a way for me to transfer all my data on my current SSD to a new SSD without having to reinstall everything?? If there's not, how to I go about installing windows on my new SSD if I got my windows from manufacturer?
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December 1st, 2020 06:00
Well technically its compatible it'll just run at gen 3 speed.
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When you did the cloning, you should see the option to resize the partition(s) proportionately to the size of the new drive. Macrium will then resize the partitions as the cloning is done -- you'll want to re-do the cloning operation.
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December 3rd, 2020 17:00
Hey guys,
My SSD was 128GB full. I bought a 1TB SSD and cloned the 128GB SSD into my 1TB ssd using Macrium Reflex. It worked but my new 1TB ssd now still shows only 2GB free despite the fact I only used 120GB of it. Did I do something wrong during the cloning? Im thinking it has to do with the partitions when cloning. Anyone have any clue on how to fix this?