I have an Acer Nitro 5 that I use for both work and gaming, and like a lot. The only issue I've had is that the boot SSD is only 128GB, so all of my games end up in the 1TB SATA data drive which is a HDD. All good except that when I get into playing Total War, etc., the load times got to be atrocious.
So I decided to switch the SATA to a SSD. I ordered a Samsung 870 QVO 2TB drive, and cloned by existing drive onto it with the free version of Macrium Reflect. I opened up the laptop today and swapped out the drives. It seems to have mostly worked fine, and there is a notable improvement in loading times. Only two issues:
- It mounted as a G drive instead of the D drive it had previously been. This doesn't seem to be an issue so far; I just pointed Steam to the Library folder and everything looks like it has come back. I'm not worried about this unless someone tells me I should be.
- I realized that I cloned a 1TB drive onto a 2TB drive - so the 2TB drive now apparently contains a ~1TB partition, with the second terabyte unused (if you look at it in Windows it says 900 GB total capacity instead of 1.8TB or whatever. Looking at it in Macrium seems to confirm this.
What would you guys recommend as the best way to fix issue #2? I have the old HDD in an external enclosure so I could do the clone or copy another way if that's easier - or if cloning this is the wrong idea I could wipe the SSD, reformat it and then just copy the files over? It really is most just files, plus the Steam Library which per #1 is easy to fix, and a Google Drive sync that I'm sure I could set up again.
I would love any thoughts that you have - thanks!
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