Cloning old drive before installing new drive

What a crew residing here...
Many thanks to you all

morgan23 said:

Thank you for the replies Samuria..
Not au fait inside a computer..
Would I achieve a result using an enclosure for the M.2 through a USB port?

Regards

Hi there

@morgan23

1) Clone current HDD to a USB device --- your new Disk attached to computer via USB3 adapter --get the correct M2 -->USB3 adapter though -- you don't need to have the M2 SSD in an enclosure at this stage the adapter has the power and connectors. Use Macrium or whatever.

2) now swap the drives --should be bootable ---"Seeemples"

BTW after doing this exercise keep the old SSD for backups / external data etc etc --use any of those cheap SATA==>USB3 adapters --no need to have the SSD in any enclosure - just connect the sata end of the adapter to the SSD and the USB3 end into the computer.

As far as partitioning is concerned --do any re-partitioning after installing the new system disk --plenty of partition managers out there --I'd go for GPARTED -- runs from a bootable USB device. If you download the iso simply use RUFUS to creat a bootable USB drive from the iso downloaded.

The thing is to get the system working FIRST --if you do too many things at once and something breaks it's difficult (or even impossible) to determine cause of defect and fix it.

Cheers
jimbo

Right, I'll get to it over the next couple of days and let you know how successful I have been.
If you see heavy black smoke on your horizons it will be my computer burning..
I will be ok though just licking windows on my garden shed.

Again thank you all!!