Question How can I transfer all storage from 500gb nvme SSD onto 2tb nvme SSD the best way possible?

[stvnfxz]

I’m almost out of storage on my ssd and wanted to upgrade, I would prefer to spend as little as possible as my motherboard limits me to 1 nvme SSD slot right now and to be able to use the other one available in it, id need to upgrade to an 11th gen cpu so I was trying to find a way to just transfer everything I have on my original nvme SSD I built my pc with onto a 2tb nvme ssd. I’m assuming it’s possible in a couple ways but would want any input if someone has done it and how they went about it. Thanks.

 

[Lafong]

You say "storage".

Is this PURELY data or is there an operating system on this SSD?

If an OS is involved, imaging would be one way...using something like Macrium.

 

[USAFRet]

Does this involve a motherboard change?
What motherboard?

What are the 2 drives in question, old and new?

What, exactly, is on this drive? The OS?

 

[stvnfxz]

You say "storage".

Is this PURELY data or is there an operating system on this SSD?

If an OS is involved, imaging would be one way...using something like Macrium.

I have windows 10 installed on it yeah

 

[stvnfxz]

Does this involve a motherboard change?
What motherboard?

What are the 2 drives in question, old and new?

What, exactly, is on this drive? The OS?

No motherboard change, keeping the same one, windows 10 OS is on the old 500gb drive alongside personal files video games etc

 

[stvnfxz]

No motherboard change, keeping the same one, windows 10 OS is on the old 500gb drive alongside personal files video games etc

500gb is wd bluesn570 new one is 2tb legend 850 lite

 

[USAFRet]

1x m.2 slot with an Image

Assuming you have another drive (any type of drive) with sufficient free space to hold the entirety of your current m.2 drive:

1. Download and install Macrium Reflect
2. Run that, and create a Rescue CD or USB (you'll use this later). "Other Tasks". Create this on a small USB flash drive or DVD.
3. In the Macrium client, create an Image to some other drive. External USB HDD, maybe. Select all partitions. This results in a file of xxxx.mrimage
4. When done, power OFF.
5. Swap the 2 drives
6. Boot up from the Rescue USB you created earlier.
7. Restore (on the toolbar), and tell it where the Image is that you created in step 3, and which drive to apply it to...the new m.2
8. Go, and wait until it finishes.
9. That's all...this should work.

 

[stvnfxz]

1x m.2 slot with an Image

Assuming you have another drive (any type of drive) with sufficient free space to hold the entirety of your current m.2 drive:

1. Download and install Macrium Reflect
2. Run that, and create a Rescue CD or USB (you'll use this later). "Other Tasks". Create this on a small USB flash drive or DVD.
3. In the Macrium client, create an Image to some other drive. External USB HDD, maybe. Select all partitions. This results in a file of xxxx.mrimage
4. When done, power OFF.
5. Swap the 2 drives
6. Boot up from the Rescue USB you created earlier.
7. Restore (on the toolbar), and tell it where the Image is that you created in step 3, and which drive to apply it to...the new m.2
8. Go, and wait until it finishes.
9. That's all...this should work.

Got it, so I’m following up up till step 7, the new nvme ssd is blank, would I need to install windows 10 on it first as well? I’m assuming once it boots up without the OS (once I take the nvme ssd that has windows on it out of the motherboard to swap with new without windows) the BIOS comes up and I’m not sure if that’s what you are referring to the “toolbar” or is that you assuming the new nvme already has an OS installed and the toolbar is in a windows program I start up to then move it onto the new nvme from the flash drive I’d use that now has the copy of the first nvme ssd? Sorry not the quickest still learning computer basics.

 

[USAFRet]

Got it, so I’m following up up till step 7, the new nvme ssd is blank, would I need to install windows 10 on it first as well? I’m assuming once it boots up without the OS (once I take the nvme ssd that has windows on it out of the motherboard to swap with new without windows) the BIOS comes up and I’m not sure if that’s what you are referring to the “toolbar” or is that you assuming the new nvme already has an OS installed and the toolbar is in a windows program I start up to then move it onto the new nvme from the flash drive I’d use that now has the copy of the first nvme ssd? Sorry not the quickest still learning computer basics.

No, you do NOT install Windows on it first.

At step 6, you're booting from the RescueUSB you created.
The 'toolbar' is in that.

 

[stvnfxz]

No, you do NOT install Windows on it first.

At step 6, you're booting from the RescueUSB you created.
The 'toolbar' is in that.

Would I possibly be able to use one usb flash drive for the rescue and another usb flash drive that I have which has 1tb of storage available for the image which could store all that I have from the current nvme ssd and follow the same steps?

 

[USAFRet]

Would I possibly be able to use one usb flash drive for the rescue and another usb flash drive that I have which has 1tb of storage available for the image which could store all that I have from the current nvme ssd and follow the same steps?

Yes.
That is the preferred method.

Assuming a 1TB hold the Image referenced above.

 

[Bob.B]

I’m almost out of storage on my ssd and wanted to upgrade, I would prefer to spend as little as possible as my motherboard limits me to 1 nvme SSD slot right now and to be able to use the other one available in it, id need to upgrade to an 11th gen cpu so I was trying to find a way to just transfer everything I have on my original nvme SSD I built my pc with onto a 2tb nvme ssd. I’m assuming it’s possible in a couple ways but would want any input if someone has done it and how they went about it. Thanks.

An option.
Get a ssd enclosure install new in the enclosure.
Clone old > new.
Remove old install new in the pc.
Install old in the enclosure use it for backups.