Cloning with Acronis - Destination Disk Greyed Out

Internal SSD SSD PLUS M.2 NVMe
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Trying to clone my smaller 1TB drive to a larger 2TB SN850X. Originally tried Clonezilla, but I ran into a UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME error. Trying Acronis, is included with the drive purchase, but when I select the “Destination Disk,” the said disk is greyed out.

Any help would be nice. Was expecting a smooth upgrade, and at this point I’m ready to give up and file a return with Amazon.

Running Windows 11 Pro 64bit

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I’m going to add, I had hardware encryption enabled on an old Samsung 960 EVO. I disabled Bitlocker, but given the drive is hardware encrypted, I believe my only option is a clean install.

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The UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME in Clonezilla usually pops up because Windows 11 doesn’t like cloning while the system partition is in use, or the source drive has a dynamic/bitlocker setup. With Acronis, the destination being greyed out usually means the drive isn’t initialized, formatted, or has a conflicting partition style (MBR vs GPT). Check in Disk Management that your 2TB drive shows up, is initialized as GPT, and has no partitions. If not, right-click and initialize it, then try Acronis again. Make sure you run Acronis as admin. Once it sees the drive, cloning should work smoothly. If your system fails to boot after, Windows repair from a bootable USB usually fixes it.

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Initialized, formatted, and set to GPT. All partitions deleted. Still, no go.

I just think it’s weird that I can select my D: and E: drive, but not the SN850x.

I’ve decided to just keep my current OS drive, since it has hardware encryption enabled, and I have a bunch of Bitlocker encrypted external drives that I’d like to have auto-unlock, and I don’t really want software encryption with the SN850x. Drive was purchased off of Amazon resale, and it was a fairly good deal, and so I’ll probably just keep it as a storage drive. Thanks for reaching out though!