Hey everyone. Need a little help and guidance. I just bought a brand new Blade 15 advanced GTX2070 Max-Q with the 4k touch screen. Awesome machine, except for the size of the drive. I want to swap it out for a 2TB NVME M.2 drive.
Here is what I bought:
- Addlink S70 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 m.2 2280 SSD.
Amazon link
- An external m.2 NVME to USB3.1 Type-C Gen2 enclosure
Amazon link
I connected the drive in the enclosure to the USB type C port on the right side of laptop, downloaded Macrium Reflect, and "Cloned Disk" as described in a YouTube video I found here.
Upon running the Macrium process after selecting the drive, deleting all partitions on it, dragging partitions from the original disk to the new blank one, expanding the C drive on the new disk, it seems to run for about 15 seconds and then fails with an unknown error.
I tried it twice and same result. I suspect it has something to do with the generic enclosure but not sure. Upon plugging in the enclosure to the laptop Windows 10 sees it as a regular external disk just fine so I dont think it is a driver issue.
Any ideas of how to get this working and, if I need a different solution to get 2TB into this that doesn't include spending 530 on a Samsung drive?
Thanks in advance, appreciate it.
Paul
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You can use Windows to copy the system restore image and reload it onto the new drive, it will fully utilize the new drive. You only need an 8GB USB drive for this. Basically, it copies the system image restore drive over to the new drive and installs Windows. You will need to reinstall everything you've installed on the smaller SSD.
To do this: create a system image via Control Panel --> System Image Backup. After this, switch your SSD, boot from the USB drive with the system image on it, the Razer system image recovery is loaded onto your new SSD. All Razer drivers, background and such are present upon bootup.
To do this: create a system image via Control Panel --> System Image Backup. After this, switch your SSD, boot from the USB drive with the system image on it, the Razer system image recovery is loaded onto your new SSD. All Razer drivers, background and such are present upon bootup.
pjsisk01
Hey everyone. Need a little help and guidance. I just bought a brand new Blade 15 advanced GTX2070 Max-Q with the 4k touch screen. Awesome machine, except for the size of the drive. I want to swap it out for a 2TB NVME M.2 drive.
Here is what I bought:
- Addlink S70 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 m.2 2280 SSD.
Amazon link
- An external m.2 NVME to USB3.1 Type-C Gen2 enclosure
Amazon link
I connected the drive in the enclosure to the USB type C port on the right side of laptop, downloaded Macrium Reflect, and "Cloned Disk" as described in a YouTube video I found here.
Upon running the Macrium process after selecting the drive, deleting all partitions on it, dragging partitions from the original disk to the new blank one, expanding the C drive on the new disk, it seems to run for about 15 seconds and then fails with an unknown error.
I tried it twice and same result. I suspect it has something to do with the generic enclosure but not sure. Upon plugging in the enclosure to the laptop Windows 10 sees it as a regular external disk just fine so I dont think it is a driver issue.
Any ideas of how to get this working and, if I need a different solution to get 2TB into this that doesn't include spending 530 on a Samsung drive?
Thanks in advance, appreciate it.
Paul
Hey Paul,
Have you managed to solve your problem?
I am in a similar situation with my Mid 2019 RB15. I have the RTX 2080 Max Q version. I bought the same 2TB Addlink from Amazon, but use a Plugable NVME enclosure. I am able to successfully clone the drive using Macrium, AOMEI and Arconis. But the cloned drive just wont boot to Windows. Haven't found a solution to this yet..
bimmerboi
Hey Paul,
Have you managed to solve your problem?
I am in a similar situation with my Mid 2019 RB15. I have the RTX 2080 Max Q version. I bought the same 2TB Addlink from Amazon, but use a Plugable NVME enclosure. I am able to successfully clone the drive using Macrium, AOMEI and Arconis. But the cloned drive just wont boot to Windows. Haven't found a solution to this yet..
Hi there. I wound up just putting the drive in and installing Windows 10 fresh from the USB drive method. The digital license carried over perfectly without issue. Most drivers installed automatically but I updated the NVidia drivers manually and ran through all the updates through 1903 (May 2019). I then just added the 3 Razer specific apps (Synapse, Chroma and Cortex)) to get it back to factory. Thing works perfectly now and is even faster than the original. The speed of the Addlink is really incredible.
Hope this helps.
pjsisk01
Hi there. I wound up just putting the drive in and installing Windows 10 fresh from the USB drive method. The digital license carried over perfectly without issue. Most drivers installed automatically but I updated the NVidia drivers manually and ran through all the updates through 1903 (May 2019). I then just added the 3 Razer specific apps (Synapse, Chroma and Cortex)) to get it back to factory. Thing works perfectly now and is even faster than the original. The speed of the Addlink is really incredible.
Hope this helps.
I ended up doing the same thing. I was just wondering why this drive wouldn’t clone properly. Reviews of the product on Amazon says they have cloned the drive. The problem could be specific to the 2019 Razer Blade 15 models.. Am still trying to figure it out.
You're going the same route I went down until I just tried the install fresh based on another thread I posted. It has to be something to do with the USB -to- M.2 interface; that's as close as I came to an answer. Good luck with the new Razer. My son loves it. Did you buy an extended warranty? Thats my current dilemma because I bought it from Razer on Amazon I could not buy there in-house warranty after the fact.
I cant pinpoint the exact issue but I did more research and it looks like the type of connection the NVME enclosure has does matter. I bought mine from HIDevolution, and have 90 days to decide if I want to purchase additional warranty.
By the way did you format the original drive your RB15 came with and used it as an external drive? Or did you keep the drive in its original state for back up purposes? Thinking if I should go ahead and erase the drive so I can use it as a portable drive.. But I’m gonna lose the original Razer install and I’m not sure if I will need it at some point.
I am going to keep it for a few months as is and, if not needed to restore to the original I will use it in another laptop. The original Razer install is literally the Win10 license (which you have regardless of what drive is in there as it is tied to the system), the NVidia drivers and the 3 Razer downloads I mentioned above. Everything else is standard from Win10 install so not worth keeping it for that. This is what I didnt understand at first either but now it makes sense.
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