How do I upgrade M2 NVMe 250GB SSD to 500 SSD

[kgnimbus]

I currently run a Samsung 970 250GB M2 SSD as a boot disk and it is rapidly running out of space. I want to upgrade to a 500GB version of that M2 as the boot disk..
As secondary storage I have a 500GB SATA SSD on an ASUS Prime x470-Pro board which has two M2 slots.
How do I clone the existing M2 SSD, which is in the PCIe x16 slot by the GPU, to a new, larger capacity M2 SSD?

 

[USAFRet]

I currently run a Samsung 970 250GB M2 SSD as a boot disk and it is rapidly running out of space. I want to upgrade to a 500GB version of that M2 as the boot disk..
As secondary storage I have a 500GB SATA SSD on an ASUS Prime x470-Pro board which has two M2 slots.
How do I clone the existing M2 SSD, which is in the PCIe x16 slot by the GPU, to a new, larger capacity M2 SSD?

Assuming you have another 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"
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. Recover, 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.

 

[kgnimbus]

I currently run a Samsung 970 250GB M2 SSD as a boot disk and it is rapidly running out of space. I want to upgrade to a 500GB version of that M2 as the boot disk..
As secondary storage I have a 500GB SATA SSD on an ASUS Prime x470-Pro board which has two M2 slots.
How do I clone the existing M2 SSD, which is in the PCIe x16 slot by the GPU, to a new, larger capacity M2 SSD?

Assuming you have another 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"
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. Recover, 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.

 

[kgnimbus]

Many thanks, that's a great help.

 

[kgnimbus]

I currently run a Samsung 970 250GB M2 SSD as a boot disk and it is rapidly running out of space. I want to upgrade to a 500GB version of that M2 as the boot disk..
As secondary storage I have a 500GB SATA SSD on an ASUS Prime x470-Pro board which has two M2 slots.
How do I clone the existing M2 SSD, which is in the PCIe x16 slot by the GPU, to a new, larger capacity M2 SSD?

Assuming you have another 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"
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. Recover, 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.