Hello I'm Calm Cal welcome to the channel in this video we're gonna look at
changing an SSD drive, this is my SD drive an 860 Evo which is my boot up
drive and the drive space on there's... not very much left to be honest and I've
actually purchased a one terabyte nvme drive so I want to install all of my
programs that I use daily onto this new nvme drive
so what I'm going to do is just clone the drive, my current C Drive and then
put all the information onto this new drive, a lot of these nvme drives come
with free software to do this. I've recently had two nvme drives, one I've
installed in my son's computer as an upgrade and one for me as well, they both
come with free software, here's a previous video just comparing these two
drives together. So with this crucial P1, you can actually go to the crucial site
which is shown here, and then if we go to support, you can see here that we can
actually select some software called Acronis - and use it for cloning your drive
click on here and then select the download button, then you can see it's
downloading to the Downloads folder, you can also click this as well just to see
the manual for this software, there's all different things in here only, Acronis is
available on its own as software, is quite powerful, a lot of people recommend
it, so its not just clone software it does a lot of other things as well like backing up and all sorts, you
can see here it came free with this crucial SSD, here's the basics to
installing a Acronis which is fairly simple,
so once that's downloaded click in the download folder, there it is Acronis
just going to click on here to run it, select ok on here and it will start
unpacking.
and there we are select this button here to install, just let it install, as I said it is
free with this crucial SSD but if you got other SSDs like a Samsung you get free s
software with this as well, to do similar things with like cloning your drive so
I'm just gonna select start application here you have to accept the agreements a
little tick in there and then select ok again and there we've got the about page
so just click on there and then we go to the tools page and we select clone disk
it has all these different features as well then, obviously a lot
of this is locked out to us, so just select clone disk, I suggest you use
automatic, this way it will clone the whole of the drive, you can't select
manual if you wish but then you'll have to select the files individually for
yourself, so just select automatic if you want to clone the whole of the drive,
then click Next, so here we have to tell it which drive we want to select to copy
it is already highlighted here, so I'm just gonna select next, it's just
reading that drive now in a second it'll give us the option to select which drive
we want to copy to, so here it's just listed the drives like this - 1 2 3 & 4 but we
know that we've got an nvme drive and it's listed here as a crucial t1000 P
this is the one that we want so just highlight this and then select next
just a warning here, just advising you that everything's gonna be wiped off
the drive, so select ok and now it does it's magic, it will start reading the Samsung one
and then start working out what different partitions it needs to copy
across to the crucial one, so this is gonna be the before and after picture
let me just select proceed, it's going to prepare everything, it will just check all the
files that's on the supplier SSD to the clone SDD
It gives you a brief idea of how long it's gonna take
I've got quite a bit of information on there and this took half an hour but
it does make an exact copy of the SSD. It started off with 21 minutes - so we're
gonna use the magic of editing and go through to the end stages, so we've not
got long left now, all right the disk was successfully cloned! We need to turn off
your computer, remove the source drive, install the clone drive in its place.
Just select ok here, so I'm just going to shut the computer down
turn off the power, let the power drain from what's already in there. I'm just
gonna disconnect the souce drive, the nvme drive is already installed, if
you're unsure how to install one of these check out this video here, and as I
turn my computer on I just want to double check and it's going to be
booting to the correct Drive, so I'm just just going to the boot menu here
within BIOS - Just making sure that the boot option for number one is this
new drive I've just installed.
which it is - the CT1000P one and that is down as boot manager - boot option #1. Just going to to select Exit and then save changes & reset.
Select OK, this will now reboot and boot to the new drive, and there we are, it's an exact
replica of the original source drive and it's named itself as the source drive
which is the 860 Evo but obviously this is now the new nvme drive now, so I will just need
to rename it, so you can see how much space is on this new drive now, and you
can rename it as a crucial P1 NVMe 1 TB drive, then select ok,
it says that you need permission so just click continue and then ok and here you
can now see it's the crucial p1 nvme as the C: Drive - the main boot drive, select
properties, I now have 574 gigabytes free - I'm still waiting for packages to arrive
from China in the meantime I hope you enjoyed this video, my name is Cal have a good morning,
afternoon, or good evening, farewell till next time and I will see you later
thanks for watching (and reading!) 👍