PCIe NVME M.2

[metislight]

*I am looking for a USB solution to clone my laptop 256GB NVME M.2 drive to a new larger 512GB NVME M.2 drive.

I have seen a lot of solutions for a "B" or "B + M" slots...but am struggling to find housing that will work externally for just the "M" pins.

This is in my laptop and there is no extra space to clone directly from the PCIe slot.

I'm not an expert at fixing computers but honestly did not know what I was taking on when trying to increase this drive! lol

HELP!

Please...does someone know of a solution?

 

[USAFRet]

Assuming this laptop has 2 USB ports...you can do this.

You will need:
Any USB drive of sufficient size. A 1TB USB HDD would work.
A USB stick of 8GB or so.

Steps:
1. Macrium Reflect. Install it.
2. Create the Macrium Rescue USB on the USB stick from above.
3. Connect your external HDD.
4. Run the Macrium, and create an Image of your full drive, all partitions, onto that USB HDD.
5. Swap the physical M.2 drives
6. Boot up from the Macrium Rescue USB or CD you created.
7. Tell it where the Image is (from step 4), and which drive (the new m.2) to apply it to.
8. Go.

 

[metislight]

Thank you! I will try this with Macrium. I tried using a wd backup unit and accrins and couldn't see how to clone into the backup unit thank you very much