My question is similar to the one here: SSD Clone Question(s) - Windows 11 but that thread has been overtaken with Overprovisioning which doesn't concern me.
I have an HP Laptop that has a 512GB NVMe drive and as far as I know only one NVMe slot. I ordered a 2TB drive that I was assured from HP is compatible with the system. I also ordered a USB-C enclosure for the drive that should arrive today (before the new drive next week).
I own Macrium Reflect and understand it should be able to clone the drive, but I'm unsure how. My goal is to obviously clone and replace the 512GB. If there are 2 NVMe slots I want the 512GB as a secondary (blank) drive when I'm done, if not, I'll keep it as an external backup and blank it then. My understanding is that since the drives are different sizes I need to adjust the space during the cloning process before it does the recovery partition (and any other partitions there may be). Again, I'm unsure what I'm doing so if someone can give me instructions that would be greatly appreciated. I used to be a system builder so you don't have to dumb it all down, but due to medical issues, my memory is pretty much shot which is why this is so hard for me and why I don't want to mess up.
I have an HP Laptop that has a 512GB NVMe drive and as far as I know only one NVMe slot. I ordered a 2TB drive that I was assured from HP is compatible with the system. I also ordered a USB-C enclosure for the drive that should arrive today (before the new drive next week).
I own Macrium Reflect and understand it should be able to clone the drive, but I'm unsure how. My goal is to obviously clone and replace the 512GB. If there are 2 NVMe slots I want the 512GB as a secondary (blank) drive when I'm done, if not, I'll keep it as an external backup and blank it then. My understanding is that since the drives are different sizes I need to adjust the space during the cloning process before it does the recovery partition (and any other partitions there may be). Again, I'm unsure what I'm doing so if someone can give me instructions that would be greatly appreciated. I used to be a system builder so you don't have to dumb it all down, but due to medical issues, my memory is pretty much shot which is why this is so hard for me and why I don't want to mess up.
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My Computers
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro β
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- HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eg0070wm
- CPU
- Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7
- Memory
- 32 GB DDR4-3200 SDRAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel® Iris® Xᵉ Graphics
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- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 2TB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
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- macOS Ventura
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- Apple iMac 27" 5K (2017)
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- Memory
- 40 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
- Graphics card(s)
- Radeon Pro 570 4 GB
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 27" 5K, 34" UW
- Screen Resolution
- Mon 1: 5120 × 2880 Mon 2: 2560 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- 32GB NVME, 1TB SSD