Question What's The Best Way to Clone and Replace an M.2?

[bburko01]

Hi all. My question is simple but I haven't done any of this stuff in a while.

I have an MSI gaming laptop that I'm starting to use more often but the stock 256gb M.2 primary drive fills up fast due to the size of my OS some installed softwares and World of Warships file size and updates.

I want to get a 1TB M.2 to replace it. I would like to clone the current drive to the 1TB then just drop it in.

What's the best means of accomplishing such a thing?

Thanks for your help as always

Burk

 

[lvt]

I used this for years without problem.

Just clone the whole system disk to another device then make the new device the boot disk.

That's it.

https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

 

[Bob.B]

Hi all. My question is simple but I haven't done any of this stuff in a while.

I have an MSI gaming laptop that I'm starting to use more often but the stock 256gb M.2 primary drive fills up fast due to the size of my OS some installed softwares and World of Warships file size and updates.

I want to get a 1TB M.2 to replace it. I would like to clone the current drive to the 1TB then just drop it in.

What's the best means of accomplishing such a thing?

Thanks for your help as always

Burk

Unless your laptop has a second m.2 slot you will need a m.2 enclosure.
Fit the new m.2 in the enclosure and connect via usb.
Clone internal to ext.
Remove the internal and replace with the larger m.2.

 

[bburko01]

Thanks for the info folks. Do you have any recommendations for external USB devices to do the job?

 

[USAFRet]

Do you have or can borrow an external drive, of any type, with about 200GB free space?
Doesn't matter if anything else is on it, just looking for free space.

If so, we can do this for $0.

 

[lvt]

You should buy the M.2 and its enclosure at the same time.

The enclosure comes with the cable that you need.