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June 28th, 2021 20:00
Clone HDD with Optane Memory enabled
I have a Dell XPS 8920 (circa 2017) with the Dell OEM 1TB HDD as boot drive (Drive C), and with Optane Memory enabled ("paired" to the boot drive). I also have a second internal drive, 2TB HDD. (Drive D)
I want to replace the 1TB HDD OEM drive with a new 2TB HDD drive, after I clone the OEM drive. (I will temporarily remove the current 2TB "D" drive.)
Assuming that I clone the boot drive while Optane Memory is enabled:
1. Do I need to disable Optane Memory before swapping the drives, or will the system recognize the cloned (2TB) boot drive after the swap?
2. If the system will reboot from the cloned 2TB replacement, will the "Rescan" process pick up the data for the new boot drive?
In the image above, the "SATA (932 GB)" is the current boot 1TB HDD drive.
noquiexis
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July 10th, 2021 05:00
Sorry to say, but the clone operation was a dismal failure. I wound up "Reset"ing the 'new' hard drive and installing all of my software, doing Windows preferences, and Windows Updates the long way. The clone would have eliminated all of that.
Seagate DiscWizard did copy the partitions, but the 'new' drive never did get a good boot to a functional Windows environment.
A few people recommended Macrium Reflect to do the clone operation, which I tried. Macrium failed while trying to copy the first Recovery partition on the Dell OEM boot drive. It found errors in that partition. (I used the "Intelligent" method that only copies sectors that have data in them.) Perhaps this is why Seagate DiscWizard could not create a good boot drive.
I did have Intel Optane memory disabled during the clone attempts and the Reset operation. That operation was started through the Windows Recovery DVD, so it used some form of GUI other than Windows.
Although this was not the solution that I was seeking, I will mark it as "Solved". If anyone does successfully clone a boot drive on a system with Intel Optane memory, do please make a note about it here.
I got some good advice from folks at the Intel Community and Ten Forums. My thanks to those who did try to help. It is greatly appreciated.
CTG_8273
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July 10th, 2021 05:00
Why not get a 1 TB SSD either M.2 or SATA you choose. And use the 2 TB as a Storage? It will be allot faster than the current setup you will need to disable the obtain I don't think it can be used with a SATA SSD I may be wrong.