On 12/10/24 15:03, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
I think it's time to throw in the towel. The only reason I'm spending so much time on this is that I had knee surgery a few days ago and I'm sitting here at home, not mobile enough to do much else but putter with my machines. But I think I'll just forget about that shiny new NVMe SSD - it was an extra toy I got talked into as part of a motherboard upgrade but it isn't really necessary. My original hard drive is still intact and works perfectly well (albeit a bit slower than the SSD), so I'll just go back to booting from it. If someday my machine has a meltdown and really does need to be rebuilt from scratch, then I'll re-visit the matter. It's sort of like normal system updates/upgrades - usually they work smoothly and I can upgrade from one release to another without touching anything else. But if things really go south (which they have done once or twice in the past, but not often), I have enough backups to put Humpty Dumpty together again - and I'll work the SSD into the re-build.
Another option to consider is to do a simple and small install onto the NVME PCIe SSD, install a hypervisor, add a partition and file system to the NVMe PCIe SSD for virtual machines, migrate your old OS disk into a new VM, and run the VM.
David
