Two Separate Drives and Win11 OS

[Brian K]

We'll be able to resize Win11 smaller (temporarily) to do the copy.

Yes, go ahead and delete the 201 and 238 partitions on the 860 if they don't contain good data.

[Brian K]

Make sure Fast Start is disabled in Win11, Properties (In BIU)

[Brian K]

I posted on Page 1 as well.

[Brian K]

After deleting 201 and 238 on the 860, how much Free Space is present on the 860 SSD?

[Brian K]

The aim is to create Free Space in the 860 equal or greater than the Win11 partition size. This could mean resizing Win11 slightly smaller than the Free Space on 860.

The BIU copy method is...

Partition Work. Don't use Disk Imaging for this. Select the Win11 partition on your 8100 SSD. Click Copy. Select the Free Space on the 860 SSD. Click Paste. Name the partition. eg 860-Win11

Put a tick in Add to Boot Menu. This is essential. Leave the Data tick alone. Leave it present. Click OK. The copy occurs. Then click close.

Boot Edit. You see 2 items. Select the new copied item, Edit, rename the Identity, eg 860-copy-Win11. OK, OK.

Boot Edit, hide each Windows partition from the other.

Restart. Make sure each OS boots properly.

You can then setup the copied OS to your liking.

[Friendly]

On SN 8100 Free: 1833764
Used: 2982

860 has total of 238.47Gb space

[Brian K]

What units are 2982?

Is that 29.82 GB? Or 29820 MiB?

[Friendly]

Thank you. I will try to get this done tomorrow and I will report back to you.
Thank you again for your time and help.
Good night.

[Brian K]

Don't leave yet. Your Used doesn't make sense.

[Brian K]

I'm assuming your Used is 29820 MiB.

Partition Work. Resize the Win11 partition on 8100 SSD to 100000 MiB. Don't tick Resize from Start. (one hundred thousand)
Then do the BIU copy.

Don't worry about desired partition sizes as we can correct them later.