[NAME] How are you going to clone the PM981 NVMe drive since you only have one M.2 SSD lslot? Are you going to image all the partitions, swap drives, and then restore the partitions? You need to switch to AHCI because the Samsung NVMe driver requires AHCI. I advise you switch to AHCI after cloning using this procedure: [URL] Note that the BIOS change is not made until step 4 of the procedure.
I would like to replace the stock PM981 2TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD C: drive with a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD. I am currently running Windows 11 and the C: drive is used only for the system and programs. All data, document and media files are on a Samsung 870 EVO SATA III 4TB SSD drive. I want to clone the existing PM981 using Acronis which I have used before. Once I have cloned the PM981, is there anything I need to do other than replace it on the mainboard with the new 980 Pro? The BIOS setting is currently RAID and not AHCI and I have seen posts about having to switch to AHCI. Thanks for any help or advice you can offer.
XPS 8930, replace PM981 SSD with Samsung 980 Pro SSD