Thanks. You are correct I should have mentioned that I did create the Rescue media into a USB thumb drive .
By the way, I was so happy when I did this exact procedure to move from my Sata SSD to a new NVMe.
What a difference the NVMe madeā¦ Super fast compared to the Sata SSD. Good Luck with all your testing. It will be fun !
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Thanks for thatā¦and everything else you have shared here. Much appreciated.
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Hi, Using Macrium Reflect I succesfully cloned my C drive. In Disk Management there is 454GM Unallocated spce and my C drive shown that its only 476GB where as it should show 1TB (the replacement C drive) When I right click on the C drive to extend the volume it is greyed out and I can not do it. Help will be appreciated.
This should have been moved a while back to #self-service:pc-hardware , which it now has.
HI,
Since you elected to clone your drive, MR made a clone (exact duplicate) which should be approximately the size of the original disk, leaving any additional space as unallocated. With Win 10 disk management there is an extend option but that only works if the available partition is adjacent to the partition you wish to extend. It cannot extend if there is a partition in between.
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What I do in cases like this is use MiniTool Partition Magic (Free) . Once installed and opened (viewing the disk layout at the bottom of the window), if you right click on the āCā partition you wish to extend, a drop down will pop up and you can select extend and use the choices to select the UNALLOCATED partition and select to use ALL of the unallocated space, it should move all the unallocated drive space into your C drive.
Here is my test disk example screen shot: Hope this helps
Here is the link to the software, select the Home User (Free) edition.
https://www.partitionwizard.com/
Thank you so much. Eventually I used another program with the same philosophy as the one you suggested called: AOMEI Partition Assistance and worked fine.
Glad to hear that. Happy that everything worked out ok for your drive changes.
Have a wonderful and safe Holiday Season.
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With my new SSD NVMe WD-BLACK SN750, I have noticed that the sim runs smoother.
I noticed the same thing. FS seemed smoother but the overall speed of the entire pc system was much faster than my Sata SSD. I was super happy I made the move from SSD to NVMe.
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I finally moved all of FS2020 over to my HDD (the packages folder) and it makes no noticeable difference on loading times, go figure. (I needed space for FH5 which runs really poorly from HDD).
FS2020 still takes about 3 minutes to load to the main menu and another one or two minutes to start a flight depending on the server. During flight it hardly touches the HDD, so pretty pointless to āwasteā 180GB of prime NVME real estate on FS2020.
However I donāt have any add-ons (on FBW A32NX) so mileage may vary with a large community folder.
If your sim loads in ONLY 3 minutes then you must be a happy man. Usual loading time its about 5 minutes in most PCs
Iāve reduced the install size by getting rid of all the stuff I donāt use or have finished (training, landing challenges, bush flights, liveries). My installed content sits at 189 vs 272 not installed.
It still takes over a minute for anything to happen at all after pressing play in Steam. Then a long wait checking for updates, At the 2 minute mark it starts loading. (this time)
It accesses all the installed content so reducing install size helps. Anyway the actual loading (reading stuff from disk) part takes 1:40, with the dilly dallying phase before loading it is indeed 3 minutes 40 seconds.
I donāt worry so much about the loading time. What I do is press the Flight Simulator desktop shortcut and then, put the kettle on, choose what coffee to make, open the fridge to get the cake, back at the coffee machine, make the coffee, go to the office and the simulator is ready to flyā¦
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