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Sabrent Rocket Acronis

Like the other Rocket drives from the Sabrent line, 4 Plus comes bundled with software like Acronis True Image as well as the company’s handy SSD toolbox for easy access to the drive’s health and firmware updates.

The Sabrent 1TB Rocket Q4 Nvme PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 Internal SSD With Heatsink delivers all the advantages of flash disk technology with PCIe Gen4.0 x4 interface. Based on TLC NAND Flash memory, its performance speeds can reach up to 4700 MB/s (read) and 1800 MB/s (write) when using a.

Sabrent Acronis Clone

Sabrent Rocket Acronis Pro

Sabrent Ssd Clone

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I just bought a Sabrent Rocket NVME 4.0 drive, 2 TB. I want to clone my old NVME drive to it. Acronis wouldn't start, saying it doesn't recognize there's a connected Sabrent drive, so I initialized it and formatted it in windows disk manager.

Hello,

I've attached a pic of it but I've tried connecting a Sabrent Rocket 2TB NVME unit (TLC, PCIe3.0 variant) to my laptop with only one occupied NVME slot via usb 3.1 port. As per the picture the Acronis software they recommend doesn't recognise the Sabrent unit when connected via the enclosure.

I've tried two other methods via OS migration wizard (Minitool Partition Wizard) and Macrium Reflect clone disk but each time they complete and I try swapping out the drives, I get windows 10 boot errors (latest build etc.). I also tried repairing the boot sector via the Macrium tool. I'm a little worried about a couple of large read only partitions that have appeared too.

What is the best/recommended method to get the entire previous drive with all data/sectors/partitions onto the new drive? I didn't have this problem in the past with Samsung drives but have opened a support ticket with Sabrent before jumping to returning the unit to Amazon UK.

Thanks in advance for any help/advice. Funny this one still an issue and NVME still not very mature.

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Lynton, welcome to these public User Forums.

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.

The core issue here is that using an external enclosure makes the Sabrent NVMe drive appear as something else due to the extra hardware it is connected via. This is a known issue when using such adapters.

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The second issue here is that cloning any laptop drive to an external drive will often cause that external drive to be non-bootable when installed inside the laptop, again because the connection method is no longer the same!

Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

It is recommended to put the new drive in the laptop first, and connect the old drive via USB. Otherwise you will may not be able to boot from the new cloned drive, as Acronis True Image will apply a bootability fix to the new disk and adjust the boot settings of the target drive to boot from USB. If the new disk is inside the laptop, the boot settings will be automatically adjusted to boot from internal disk. As such, hard disk bays cannot be used for target disks. For example, if you have a target hard disk (i.e. the new disk to which you clone, and from which you intend to boot the machine) in a bay, and not physically inside the laptop, the target hard disk will be unbootable after the cloning.

Personally I have not used cloning with my own NVMe SSD's as I have no suitable adapter to connect 2 with and have no systems with 2 slots for this type of drive, therefore I have always used Backup & Recovery to migrate to a new or larger drive.

The steps in outline are as follows:

Create the Acronis Rescue Media (use the Simple option for WinPE)

Test booting your laptop from the rescue media, ensuring you understand how to boot in UEFI mode and can 'see' your current SSD drive and an external backup drive to hold a full disk backup image.

Make a new full Disk backup of the working SSD to an external drive as a one-off backup action.

Shutdown the PC, remove the current SSD and install the new SSD.

Boot from the Acronis Rescue Media with your backup drive connected.

Recover the Backup from step 3. to the new SSD.

Check the Log messages before exiting from the rescue media (all logs are lost on exit) to check all is OK.

If all ok, disconnect the external drive, remove the rescue media and restart the PC normally from the new SSD.

When you have confirmed all is ok with the new SSD, make a new backup again to include any new device drivers installed for the new SSD.

Note: if your new SSD is larger than the original one, then you may find that ATI has not expanded the C: OS partition to use the full new size of the new SSD. If so, then this is quite simple to resolve as below:

First, download a copy of the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software, install this, then use it to move the Windows Recovery partition (that is shown after the C: OS partition) to the end of the available unallocated space.

Next, resize the C: OS partition to use the available unallocated space.

See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 63295: Acronis True Image 2020: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

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Steve, legend indeed and thanks for all of this. I'd seen your other forum posts but the bit about the enclosure not detecting as Sabrent makes sense. I did migrate my original Asus G14 SSD to a Samsung one via these methods however which is why I thought something was different this time with Sabrent.

I'll try some of these methods and get back to you. Something's got to work eventually :)

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@Steve Smith reporting back:

So good news I have managed to achieve the migration by (eventually) finding the mediacreation tool (exe) in the Acronis win explorer folder and putting the tool on a spare usb drive. I then used the 'simple' option from the ui menu option when booting from the drive (after selecting in BIOS), and this did a very straightforward clone from source (now my 'original' drive connected in the external usb3.1 nvme enclosure) to destination/target Sabrent drive (now in the m.2 pcie slot in my laptop). I then shut down, did the swap. There was a blue screen startup error after this which then seemed to repair but only after I went into advanced startup and applied the 'startup repair' option. A reboot after that miraculously made it all the way through windows10 bootup, no data loss and as I was before but now with double the space via the 2tb nvme Rocket. A bit of a process though and someone not so confident with this stuff might have struggled. A couple of suggestions:

1. The information via a hyperlink or something re media creation tool for using external drives to migrate (rather than the simple error 'not-detected' as per my screenshot here would surely be a better user experience?

2. why not uplift the True Image tool to be able to detect beyond the enclosure's hw signature to recognise the inserted Sabrent drive?

should I mark your message above as 'solution' based on this?

Thanks, Lynton

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Lynton, good to read of your successful migration.

You can use the Feedback tool to pass on suggestions to Acronis about hyperlinks etc.

With regards to hardware detection, that is only a limitation in the OEM versions which have been 'crippled' to have a requirement to identify a drive of the vendor make - this does not apply to the full commercial version, but that isn't given away for free with hardware purchases!

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Hello,

Thanks in advance for any help/advice. Funny this one still an issue and NVME still not very mature.

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Lynton, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sabrent Acronis Clone

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.

How to reboot a macbook air laptop. Please see KB 56634: Acronis True Image: how to clone a disk - and review the step by step guide given there.

Note: the first section of the above KB document directs laptop users to KB 2931: How to clone a laptop hard drive - and has the following paragraph:

The steps in outline are as follows:

Create the Acronis Rescue Media (use the Simple option for WinPE)

Test booting your laptop from the rescue media, ensuring you understand how to boot in UEFI mode and can 'see' your current SSD drive and an external backup drive to hold a full disk backup image.

Make a new full Disk backup of the working SSD to an external drive as a one-off backup action.

Shutdown the PC, remove the current SSD and install the new SSD.

Boot from the Acronis Rescue Media with your backup drive connected.

Recover the Backup from step 3. to the new SSD.

Check the Log messages before exiting from the rescue media (all logs are lost on exit) to check all is OK.

If all ok, disconnect the external drive, remove the rescue media and restart the PC normally from the new SSD.

When you have confirmed all is ok with the new SSD, make a new backup again to include any new device drivers installed for the new SSD.

Next, resize the C: OS partition to use the available unallocated space.

See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 63295: Acronis True Image 2020: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

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I'll try some of these methods and get back to you. Something's got to work eventually :)

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Sabrent Rocket Acronis Pro

@Steve Smith reporting back:

Sabrent Ssd Clone

2. why not uplift the True Image tool to be able to detect beyond the enclosure's hw signature to recognise the inserted Sabrent drive?

should I mark your message above as 'solution' based on this?

Thanks, Lynton

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Lynton, good to read of your successful migration.

You can use the Feedback tool to pass on suggestions to Acronis about hyperlinks etc.

Note: Please do not expect any instant reply for private messages as I am often unable to access these due to forum timeout errors!

Products: Acronis True Image 9.0 - 11.0, 2009 - 2021 Disk Director 12.5 Acronis Revive

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charger-batteries · 4 years

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How to Copy Your Windows Installation to an SSD

If you're still using a traditional, spinning hard disk on your PC, you're missing out. Swapping it out for a solid-state drive (SSD) is one of the best upgrades you can make in terms of speeding up your computer. It'll boot faster, programs will launch instantly, and games won't take so long to load anymore.

You could reinstall Windows from scratch, if you wanted to, and start new with a fresh, squeaky-clean system. While that might seem simpler, it's actually much more of a hassle. Copying your drive will get you up and running much quicker, as long as you follow these instructions.

What You'll Need: An SSD

Obviously, in order to upgrade to an SSD, you'll need to, well, buy an SSD. We have some recommendations here, though if you're on a pretty strict budget, we have a separate list of cheap SSDs as well. Make sure to buy the right form factor for your computer (some laptops will use 2.5-inch drives, while others might use M.2 or mSATA drives), and get one big enough to fit all your data. If you have a 500GB hard drive now, you should probably spring for a similarly sized SSD (or larger, to accommodate for future data).

The only exception is if you're on a desktop computer and have room for multiple hard drives. In that case, you could store Windows and your programs on the SSD while putting your music, movies, and other media on a second, larger hard disk.

What You'll Need: A USB-to-SATA Dock

During this process, you'll need both your SSD and your old hard drive connected to your computer at the same time. If you're using a laptop with only one hard drive slot, that means you'll need an external adapter, dock, or enclosure that can connect your bare SSD to your computer over USB. (Again, desktop users may not need this if they have room for two drives inside their PC—you can just install it internally alongside your old hard drive.)

What You'll Need: AOMEI Backupper for Windows

There are many different drive-cloning tools on the market, but when cloning a hard drive to SSD, I recommend AOMEI Backupper, since it's free, easy to use, and takes into account a few quirks that sometimes pop up during clones from hard drives to SSDs.

The free Standard version is fine; there's no need to upgrade to the paid version for what we're doing today. You will need to enter your email and subscribe to the newsletter to get the download link, though. Thankfully, you can just unsubscribe later.

Once you've gathered up those necessities, it's time to get started.

Back Up Your Data (and Free Up Space, if Necessary)

Before you start messing with drives and formatting partitions, it's absolutely necessary to back up your data first. A simple misclick can result in you erasing everything, so do not continue until you've backed up all of your data. If you don't have a backup yet, check out our favorite software for the job—though for today's purposes, copying your important data to an external hard drive will do in a pinch.

If you're upgrading to an SSD that's smaller than your current hard drive, you'll want to take extra care here. This isn't as common as it once was, thanks to bigger, less expensive SSDs, but if that's the case for you, you'll need to delete some files and free up space on your hard drive before cloning it. Otherwise, your data won't fit.

Once your data is safe and secure, continue onto the next step.

Plug In and Initialize Your SSD

Plug your SSD into the SATA-to-USB adapter, then plug that into your computer. If it's a brand-new drive, you probably won't see the drive pop up in File Explorer, but don't worry; it just needs to be initialized first. Open the Start menu and type "partitions" in the search box. Click the "Create and format hard disk partitions" option, and Disk Management will open. It'll prompt you to initialize the drive using either the GPT or MBR partition table.

I'll be using GPT for my SSD, since I have a modern PC with a UEFI firmware. If you have an older PC with a traditional BIOS, you may need to use an MBR partition table. If you aren't sure, look up your specific model of PC or motherboard to see which type of firmware it uses.

If you aren't prompted to initialize the drive, and don't see it in Disk Management, double-check that it's properly connected to your computer, and that the enclosure or dock is powered on (if necessary).

Once the drive has been initialized, you should see the drive show up in the bottom pane of Disk Management as unallocated space. Right-click on it, choose New Simple Volume, and click Next through the wizard to create a new volume taking up the entire drive. It isn't super important what this volume looks like; we just need a volume on the disk for AOMEI to see it. Close Disk Management and continue to the next step.

Clone Your Hard Drive

Open AOMEI Backupper and click the Clone option in the left sidebar. Choose Disk Clone, and select your C: drive as your source disk. Click Next, then click on your SSD to select it as the destination disk—again, be very careful you're selecting the right disk here, since it will be erased and overwritten—and click Next again.

Even if your SSD is smaller than your current hard drive, AOMEI will resize the volume to fit. You shouldn't run into trouble unless your source drive contains more data than can fit on the new SSD.

Finally, you'll be given a summary of the upcoming operation, which you can double-check one last time. Check the SSD Alignment box along the bottom, which ensures you're getting the best performance from your SSD, and click the Start Clone button.

Wait...and Wait, and Wait

This can take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on how large the disks are. So go binge-watch some Netflix and come back in a while. When it’s done, click the "Finish" button. You should see your new SSD in File Explorer, complete with all your data.

For Bigger Drives: Extend Your Partition

If your SSD is the same size or smaller than your old hard drive, you should be all done with the cloning process, and you can skip to the next step.

If, however, you upgraded to an SSD with more space than your old drive, you'll need to do one more thing. The Windows volume you copied to your SSD will be the same size as it was on the original hard drive, and you'll need to expand it so it takes up the rest of the disk. The Pro version of Backupper allows you to do this during the clone process, but there's no need to pay—another AOMEI tool called Partition Assistant can do it for free.

Install the free, Standard edition of Partition Assistant and look at the disks along the bottom of the window. You should see that one of your drives—in my case, Disk 2 holding the D: drive—has a bunch of unallocated space at the end. That's our new SSD, and the D: drive (or whatever letter its assigned on your system) is the volume we want to expand. You may see other volumes on the disk—these are boot and recovery partitions, and it's best to leave them intact for now.

Click that volume and select the Merge Partitions button in the sidebar. Check the Unallocated box alongside that D: drive and click OK. You should see the new layout in the AOMEI Partition Assistant window, and you can click the Apply button in the upper-left corner to make the changes.

Install Your SSD

Next, shut down your computer. It's time to install that SSD in your computer permanently. If you have a laptop with only one hard drive slot, you'll need to remove your old hard drive and replace it with your SSD. This is a bit different on every laptop. If you have a desktop PC with more than one hard drive slot, you can leave your old hard drive in as extra storage, and just install your SSD alongside it.

Reboot From Your New Drive

Once you're finished installing the SSD, you'll need to tell your computer to boot from it. (This may not be necessary on laptops with just one drive, but if you experience problems booting, it can help on some PCs.) Turn your computer on and enter its BIOS/UEFI setup—this is a bit different on every PC, but it'll usually say something like "Press DEL to enter setup" on the boot screen, so you'll want to press the corresponding key as it starts up.

From there, look for your BIOS' boot options. These will be in a different spot depending on your computer, but once you find them, you'll want to select the option to change the boot sequence. Choose your SSD from the list as the first boot drive, then head back to the BIOS' main menu to exit, saving your settings.

Your computer will reboot, and if all went well, it should plop you back into Windows faster than ever before. Open File Explorer and check to confirm that your SSD is, in fact, the C: drive. If everything looks good, you're ready to rock, and your computer should feel significantly snappier without having to reinstall a thing.

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Usage Carbon Copy Cloner To Make A Precise Copy Of Your Hard-Disk

Though Time Maker is an extremely beneficial and basic to utilize backup utility, it is sound technique to not place all your digital eggs right into one basket. Further, when you update your hard drive, cloning the old drive makes for a completely seamless transition to the new one. All of your passwords, applications, files, and so on will certainly be best where you anticipate them to be.

I want to show you exactly how to use the Shareware (uncrippled, unlimited demo) program Carbon Copy Cloner to support your files. Making Use Of Carbon Copy Cloner is a bit much more involved than Time Equipment however the advantage of making a precise, bootable duplicate is well worth the extra effort.

Evolving Media In The Digital Age As computers have gained a boosted function in our lives, the requirement for safely storing digital memories has actually expanded to be more vital than ever before. Unlike substantial objects like pictures, letters and also postcards, a hard-drive filled with digital 0's as well as 1's is conveniently removed or simply lost track of, as technology boosts with time. For instance, I still have a cabinet filled with floppy disks formatted for the Amiga, despite not possessing that computer system for several years. Though it's not impossible to get my information off them, it's a migraine therefore I have actually placed it off indefinitely. This probably will not hold true with Mac OS X as it's an even more extensive Operating System however is still worth pondering just how future-proof your backup system will certainly be in years to find.

A Two-Step Refine There's a lot to think about when supporting your information and the most effective method will certainly depend upon your requirements. Though more basic back-up energies like Time Equipment are wonderful in their own right, it is a good concept to maintain an exact duplicate of your hard-drive. This way, every single data as well as system choice will certainly be kept on your external hard-drive exactly as it was copied, with the added capacity of having the ability to boot from this disk image need to catastrophe strike as well as your hard-drive be shed, swiped or damaged.

Nonetheless, making the actual back-up is only the first step required to protect your data, as an outside hard-drive might quickly be literally harmed by fire, earthquake or flood. Ideally, you'll be saving a historical duplicate of the back-up at an additional secure place, such as an office safe or trusted member of the family's home - this need not be done each day, yet a regular monthly regimen is advised. If this is not useful, then at least consider an off-site cloud based back-up of 'worst case situation' files, such as your most cherished images, passwords and vital details. Apple's upcoming iCloud service will quickly change the means we think about on the internet information storage, yet until after that, there's Dropbox.

Preparing The Target Disk First of all, we're mosting likely to require somewhere to support to, so plug in an outside hard-drive and fire up "Disk Utility" on your Mac. Currently partition your external hard-drive (The "Target Disk") to ensure that you have a partition with adequate space to suit your Mac's major hard-drive (The "Resource Disk"), with a couple of gigabytes left over for good measure. As you can see, I've classified mine CCC - short for Carbon Copy Cloner - and also inserted the date. See to it you format your drive as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".

Getting Started With Carbon Copy Cloner

Setting Up Carbon Copy Cloner Head over to Bombich to order a complimentary copy of Carbon Copy Cloner and experience the easy setup procedure. Once set up, we can begin making our initial back-up, so release the program.

Mounting Carbon Copy Cloner Head over to Bombich to get hold of a cost-free duplicate of Carbon Copy Cloner and experience the straightforward setup procedure. Once installed, we can start making our first backup, so release the program.

Carbon Copy Cloner's Main Interface As you can see, CCC's user interface is quite easy and also direct. It is exceptionally essential to make certain the correct "Resource Disk" and also "Target Disk" have actually been chosen. So, for "Resource Disk" we're mosting likely to need to pick our Mac's hard-drive as well as in the "Target Disk" choose the complimentary dividers formerly made in Disk Utility. Lastly, click the box labelled "Remove items that do not exist on the resource".

Take a moment to read through the information, especially under the heading "What is mosting likely to happen?"

Currently click on "Clone" and you'll get one more caution, as shown below. Thinking that every little thing is fine, go on as well as back up your hard-drive!

Carbon Copy Cloner - Final Warning Prompt The backup procedure will certainly take a while, depending upon your hard-drive speed as well as whether it's a USB link or Firewire. My MacBook Pro takes just over 2 hours to finish the back-up procedure when making use of a USB 2.0 link to a typical Western Digital 5400 RPM outside hard-drive.

Booting From Your New Backup Since you've made a back-up of your Mac's whole hard-drive, you can boot right into it if wanted. To do this, just switch your Mac on with the outside hard-drive linked and also hold back the "Option" (or alt) essential right after you powering on. You'll now see your Mac's normal hard-drive as a boot alternative, in addition to your recently made Carbon Copy Cloner partition. Select this as well as your Mac will certainly boot equally as normal, albeit substantially slower if you're running USB.

Review The Handbook

Carbon Copy Cloner's Help Documents The procedure defined above is only the most standard of backup options which Carbon Copy Cloner has to use. The aid documentation included with CCC under Help -> Carbon Copy Cloner Assistance is an extremely valuable resource and gives clear directions on just how to execute incremental back-ups, just how to set up back-ups as well as even more.

Beyond The Fundamentals: Organizing

Setting Up A Back-up Task Carbon Copy Cloner can make per hour, daily, weekly and also regular monthly scheduled backups. To set-up a back-up, begin the actions necessary to backup your drive as previously described, however rather than clicking "Duplicate" select "Conserve Job".

Now the "Set up" box shows up, as seen over. I've established my backup to occur when a week, late on Sunday night/Monday early morning. This will just occur if my outside hard-drive is placed.

Past The Fundamentals: Restoring From Your CCC Back-up A worst-case circumstance situation; your Mac's installation is messed up and numerous programs are damaged. All efforts to deal with the OS has actually failed.

You would certainly begin by booting into your CCC backup as laid out above. After that, as soon as your Mac is fully loaded, run Carbon Copy Cloner and also pick your setups thoroughly. "Source Disk" must currently be your CCC back-up as well as "Target Disk" will certainly be your Mac's primary hard-drive. Experience the warnings once more and review the message under "What is going to occur?" once again.

This recover must take a whole lot less time than a backup, once the process is completed, reboot your Mac without the outside drive reconnected (you may have to hold the "Option" key as well as choose your Mac's hard-drive this very first time).

Final thought We have actually still only covered a couple of elements of what Carbon Copy Cloner can do and as soon as you're confident with basic and also scheduled back-ups, there's a great deal more advanced functions to obtain stuck into. No one back-up process is excellent, yet Carbon Copy Cloner can provide one aspect of your backup needs. If you discover yourself utilizing Carbon Copy Cloner a whole lot, take into consideration contributing some money towards (minimal $10) keeping this great software program alive!

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