Solved Help to clone OS drive

GetTheClicker said:

While I was reading through all your helpful tips and advice, thank you by the way, my computer tech friend who taught me how to build computers a decade ago FINALLY got back to me. He instructed me through the steps using Macrium Reflect.

It was actually pretty simple. Made me feel dumb again. But I got it taken care of and it only took a total of 10 mins between initializing the drive, cloning the drive, testing the drive, and replacing the drive. Going from NvMe to NvMe was super fast, a total of 4 mins to clone. I'm going to take the old drive and stash it safely just incase.

I hadn't anticipated getting this much attention and assistance. Love coming here for this exact reason. Thank you buddies!

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Well done, see easy-peasy. I suppose your new drive is in first M2. slot and NVMe Pcie gen4. I gave up on SATA 2.5" and replaced all with M.2 NVMe. Now 4 of them, 1 of 1TB, 2 of 2TB and one of 500GB. 3 are the motherboard and one in M.2 to PCIe x16 slot which is as simple device as possible. It's just a straight adapter without any chips or conversions because M.2 is just a miniature PCIe x4 slot. You can stick any generation NVMe SSD in it. Doesn't need drivers either.
I have an old NVMe SSD of 250GB I bought few years ago when they were expensive and that's all I could afford. They are now less than half price. I got and holder/adapter to USB3 gen2 and put it in it. Now it's like a bit large USB dongle but just much faster than "normal" ones, as fast as if it was inside.
Best part, at least 10 cables less in the case.

GetTheClicker said:

While I was reading through all your helpful tips and advice, thank you by the way, my computer tech friend who taught me how to build computers a decade ago FINALLY got back to me. He instructed me through the steps using Macrium Reflect.

It was actually pretty simple. Made me feel dumb again. But I got it taken care of and it only took a total of 10 mins between initializing the drive, cloning the drive, testing the drive, and replacing the drive. Going from NvMe to NvMe was super fast, a total of 4 mins to clone. I'm going to take the old drive and stash it safely just incase.

I hadn't anticipated getting this much attention and assistance. Love coming here for this exact reason. Thank you buddies!

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Macrium Reflect is simply the best (as Tina T used to sing) for cloning. Glad you sorted it. .

You could think about putting the old drive in a usb emclosure and it would be useful to store Macrium Reflect image backups of your system (like a clone but in a compressed file - you can have multiple backups also).