So I was trying to follow the ssd cloning instructions for the acronis software to clone my 500GB NVMe ssd on my lenovo P15 Gen 1 to a Samsung 2TB 980 PRO NVMe ssd:
1. I created a bootable Acronis USB drive
2. I removed the original SSD into the Sabrent enclosure
3. I installed the new 2TB SSD into the laptop (in the same NVMe slot the original came out of)
4. I booted using the bootable Acronis USB drive
5. Chose Utils->clone->simple
6. Chose the 500 GB in the Sabrent enclosure as the source drive. At this point it gave me some kind of warning saying the source drive has one or more partitions with an "unsupported" or "missing" something-or-other and that the only option was to copy the partition(s) sector-by-sector. (sorry, I should have written down the exact message). I accepted and continued.
7. Chose the new unformatted 2TB SSD as the destination. But the layout of the new drive showed that the boot (?) parition was going to be given the same 260 MB, the windows partition the same 475.5 GB and that all the extra drive space was uselessly being aforded to the hidden windows recovery partition (like 1.4 TB whereas on the original drive this partitoin consumed a scant 1.142 GB).
I canceled out and tried a manual cloning procedure, and while I was able to reduce the siace of the recovery partition, and even force the freed up space to be placed before that recover partition, I was never able to figure out how to increase the size of the main windows partition. Finally I gave up without ever actually starting a cloning process.
What am I doing wrong?
Sadly, I did this same kind of thing successfully a year ago using this same Sabrent enclosure, but I don't think I used Acronis software to do it -- and for the life of me I can't remember what software I used to do it.
