The system disk of the personal computer (most people are C disks) should be allocated how many GB to it, there has been no accurate statement, some people have their SSD capacity is large enough, divided into three or five hundredGB sprinkled water, more cruel people directly an SSD as a system disk, of course, there are "lonely cold ghosts" (stingy), according to the minimum disk demand given by Microsoft... But no matter what kind of operation, with long-term use, everyone will face a common problem: the system disk is almost full.
In the past generations of computer use suggestions, will say not to put the App and files on the system disk, but not everyone will have such a good habit of use, such as everyone's girlfriend may be the system disk to turn red, other disks are actually empty, even my own work machine divided into 194GB capacity, after three years of cumulative use, the system disk is about to burst.
Many people may feel that the system disk is replaced by a larger capacity SSD, and the system is not on the line? If your system disk originally has nothing, this is indeed very simple, but like my work machine, a variety of daily office and video editing software, all are in the efficient state of use, after reinstalling the system, to reinstall and set the software, this is simply impossible to accept, I believe there are many users, the same is also so reluctant to give up the existing system disk content, re-toss is not as good as this will be used.
In addition, there are some people who installed the machine before him, although the platform supports PCI-E 4.0, but at that time, the price of this kind of M.2 SSD was still very expensive, so the system disk used PCI-E 3.0, and now with some PCI-E 4.0 specificationSD M.2 SSD has also begun to popularize, they want to upgrade the system disk to get the best performance. Therefore, how to basically and non-destructively transfer the system disk to the newly purchased large-capacity PCI-E 4.0 SSD is a very practical topic.
Now the high-capacity PCI-E 4.0 M.2 SSD price is also quite cost-effective, such as the Yangtze River Storage's zhidi TiPro7000, which uses the third generation of Xtacing architecture 3D NAND flash memory, with the same domestic Innogrit IG5236, the nominal reading can reach more than 7GB/s, 4K random performance is also very strong, these performance data are guaranteed to make your computer run faster, and the price is reasonable, very suitable for upgrading the system disk, Of course, if you are more trench, buy a 1TB version as a system disk, and you can use it until the sky is old.
*The above performance test results are measured in the low queue (QD), while the official nominal performance uses the high queue test, so the results are different, and different test platforms will also be different, for reference only.
Back to the main topic, the first step is to connect the blank M.2 SSD to your computer, here are two ways, if your motherboard has two M.2 SSD slots, then connect the new SSD to the second slot, and if there is no spare slot, or you are using a laptop, you can also use a USB interface mobile SSD box to access your existing computer, so that the system can recognize the new SSD on the line.
In fact, the well-informed small partner has seen here has also understood, the following is to talk about the system disk full disk copied to the new SSD above, can do such a disk management software has a lot, the recommended software here is DiskGenius, it is with the system migration function, you can avoid everyone in other disk software manual operation, may only copy the Windows file where the disk is copied, and did not copy the EFI boot and reserved partition to the new disk, This will actually fail to boot the system, or there will be other errors.
After downloading the software from the DiskGenius official website, open the main interface to confirm that your new disk has been connected to the computer, and then find the system migration in the "Tools" of the menu bar, in the pop-up window will first let you select the target disk, that is, select the new SSD, and then you can adjust on the new SSD, how much space to give to the system disk, because the default is to maintain the size of the current system, so here to pay attention to just change the "system partition size", such as the original system disk is 200GB, Then the new disk can be expanded to 400GB, or even the size of the entire new disk.
After allocating the system partition size of the new disk, confirmation will pop up an inquiry which way to execute, here it is recommended to use "restart to WinPE", the computer will restart into a DOS interface, the system disk is fully copied to the new SSD, after this step is done, the computer should still boot the original system disk by default, at this time you can first shut down, move the new disk to the first M.2 SSD slot on the motherboard (or the default system boot slot), and then boot up will enter the new system disk, Click on my computer to see if everything is still there, but the system disk capacity has become larger! After that, you can clear the old system disk and leave room for other uses.
In fact, the whole step is very simple, should be a small white user can also easily operate, but the effect is very good, the original system disk is basically seamlessly replaced by the new SSD, smoothly expanded the system disk capacity, and maintained everything, really comfortable. So you don't have to hesitate and tangle after replacing the new SSD, to re-get the system, rest assured to start with the large-capacity PCI-E 4.0 M.2 SSD, such as the Yangtze River storage of the zhidi TiPro7000 is very good...