Using NVMe ssd through pcie riser

[Maojasvi]

I have a laptop with single NVME PCIe slot which is pre installed with a 128gb ssd, Now i want to upgrade it to 500 gb but even to clone its os i cannot find a single simple solution to connect it with my laptop.
So I did some research (around 6 hrs) and came up with only potential solution ( if you can call it that).
My plan is to use a mini PCIe (wifi card slot) to connect to a PCIe riser then use a NVMe M.2 PCIe adapter to connect the new ssd to clone it.
My only question is WILL IT WORK

 

[USAFRet]

A better solution:

1. Obtain (buy or borrow) a 1TB external USB drive. HDD or SSD.
2. Using any of the current imaging tools (Macrium, Acronis, etc) create an Image of the full current drive, on that external.
3. Create a bootable Rescue CD or USB.
4. Swap drives
5. Boot from the Rescue USB or CD, and tell it the Image you created, and the (new) target drive.
6. Wait until it is done.

 

[SkyNetRising]

That simply is 2 step process.

Clone from NVME to HDD,
replace NVME,
clone from HDD to NVME.

 

[Maojasvi]

A better solution:

1. Obtain (buy or borrow) a 1TB external USB drive. HDD or SSD.
2. Using any of the current imaging tools (Macrium, Acronis, etc) create an Image of the full current drive, on that external.
3. Create a bootable Rescue CD or USB.
4. Swap drives
5. Boot from the Rescue USB or CD, and tell it the Image you created, and the (new) target drive.
6. Wait until it is done.

will bootable work this way on windows 10

 

[USAFRet]

A better solution:

1. Obtain (buy or borrow) a 1TB external USB drive. HDD or SSD.
2. Using any of the current imaging tools (Macrium, Acronis, etc) create an Image of the full current drive, on that external.
3. Create a bootable Rescue CD or USB.
4. Swap drives
5. Boot from the Rescue USB or CD, and tell it the Image you created, and the (new) target drive.
6. Wait until it is done.

will bootable work this way on windows 10

"bootable" what?

I use Macrium.
If you boot from the Macrium Rescue CD or USB, and tell it an Image to apply to the new drive, yes...it is bootable.
If you made the image correctly in the first place.

It images the whole drive. All partitions.
Yes, I've done this. It works.

 

[USAFRet]

MERGED QUESTION
Question from Maojasvi : "nvme pcie ssd cloning"

My laptop uses single NVMe PCIe M.2 and a single SATA connector for drives and i don't have any another system.
I am planing to upgrade NVMe storage to 500GB 960 evo from pre installed 128GB, to clone the Operating system there is no connector or adapter available for NVMe ssd.
so i have planned to clone os from 128GB ssd to 1tb SATA HDD then again from SATA 1TB to new 500GB ssd, because of the second clone goes from 1TB to 500GB will it work and if it will work which cloning software will be easy to use and also free and reliable

 

[USAFRet]

Yes...a Clone or Image will work.
A Clone will consume whatever else is on that 1TB HDD. Be prepared for that.