Question adding and migrating system to a M2 SSD

May 1, 2019
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Hi, so recently my laptop computer has been performing slowly and I decided that I needed a little upgrade to make stuff jsut a bit faster. So I had the idea that I'd try and integrate a SSD into the system, but cloning a 1TB HDD to a 1TB SSD would take a while and 1TB SSDs were expensive. So I had the idea to just add a M2 SSD to put my OS on and use the HDD for storage of videos and photos and all that, in order to SAVE money and TIME.

Now is there a guide someone could refer me to, to help me migrate/clone the system from my HDD to my M2 SSD and then turn my HDD into a storage device while running my system and specific files from the SSD?

Thank you for reading, any help is appreciated
 

USAFRet

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You can't migrate 'only' the OS to the new SSD. Mostly, all or nothing.
Cloning the whole thing to a new 1TB SSD shouldn't take more than about 30 minutes.

Otherwise, this would be a clean OS install on a new smaller drive.

We can go into detail on the procedure if you want, for either choice.