I'm finally running out of space on a 128GB ssd on a notebook (asus N501VW) and am thinking of replacing it with a larger, 500GB, drive.
The setup:
- 1 notebook (N501VW) running Win 10 (x64)
- 3 drives (128GB ssd (M2) (C:), 1TB hdd (D:), 500GB ssd (M2))
128GB:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>fsutil fsInfo ntfsInfo C:\
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x246467166466ea4e
NTFS Version : 3.1
LFS Version : 2.0
Number Sectors : 0x000000000ec25e12
Total Clusters : 0x0000000001d84bc2
Free Clusters : 0x000000000012ce83
Total Reserved : 0x00000000000450b8
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector : 512
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000036840000
Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002
Mft Zone Start : 0x00000000005404a0
Mft Zone End : 0x0000000000540760
Max Device Trim Extent Count : 512
Max Device Trim Byte Count : 0xffffffff
Max Volume Trim Extent Count : 62
Max Volume Trim Byte Count : 0x40000000
Resource Manager Identifier : 8A0D0FB6-C261-11E6-8455-9CEBE8321CA9
1TB:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>fsutil fsInfo ntfsInfo D:\
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x38f0efcbf0ef8e06
NTFS Version : 3.1
LFS Version : 2.0
Number Sectors : 0x0000000074705fff
Total Clusters : 0x000000000e8e0bff
Free Clusters : 0x000000000497daa5
Total Reserved : 0x00000000000013ff
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Physical Sector : 4096
Bytes Per Cluster : 4096
Bytes Per FileRecord Segment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecord Segment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000099940000
Mft Start Lcn : 0x00000000000c0000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000002
Mft Zone Start : 0x0000000009a85600
Mft Zone End : 0x0000000009a8fd40
Max Device Trim Extent Count : 0
Max Device Trim Byte Count : 0x0
Max Volume Trim Extent Count : 62
Max Volume Trim Byte Count : 0x40000000
Resource Manager Identifier : 14ED2385-C262-11E6-A546-9CEBE8321CA9
500GB:
not purchased as of yet
The plan:
- Boot from a Linux (e.g. ubuntu) usb image
- Copy C:\ into D:\ (D:\ still has space)
- Shutdown, replace C:\ with larger ssd
- Boot (again) from usb
- Copy C:\ from D:\ into larger ssd
- Shutdown; boot from larger ssd
- If all's well, clear former C:\ from D:\
The bad:
- Will a dd format the new ssd entirely upon copy (from D:\ to 500GB)?
- If not how much of 500GB will be usable?
- Since 128GB is small, there are many simlinks to D:\ . Will they be affected upon copy?
- Is this even the right way of doing this?