Issue with upgrading to m.2 NVME, Help?

So the issue is that I want to change my m.2 sata for a brand new m.2 NVME but I can't find another to way to install it until I can find a way to remove my existing m.2 sata. I don't want to reinstall Windows because that would be bothersome in many different ways. The only solution I can think of is cloning my m.2 sata to my HDD so I can't take it out that way as it would be no longer needed I imagine. I don't like that process to be blunt. Yes I only have one m.2 slot in my Laptop.

Yes, clone M.2 SATA to a HDD, replace M.2 SATA with the new NVMe SSD, boot with the HDD and clone it to the new SSD.

citrusflavour01 said:

The only solution I can think of is cloning my m.2 sata to my HDD so I can't take it out that way as it would be no longer needed I imagine. I don't like that process to be blunt. Yes I only have one m.2 slot in my Laptop.

Use imaging, not cloning. I don't think you have much choice if I understand your setup.

Are you POSITIVE your machine can boot from an NVMe drive?

Install the imaging application.

Make USB flash drive rescue media in the imaging application.

Make an image file of all partitions on the M2 SATA, saving it on your HDD.

Remove the M2 SATA.

Install the M2 NVMe

Restore the image file from the HDD to the M2 NVMe after booting from the USB flash drive rescue media you previously made with the imaging application.

I've done what "ignatzsonic" has done, multiple times.

Image the existing SSD to another drive, which could be the internal HD or an external one. Use the imaging software to create a bootable USB rescue drive. Swap SSDs. Boot from the USB rescue drive, and restore the image to the new SSD. Use Disk Management to resize the main partition if the new SSD is larger than the old, and the imaging software didn't already do that.

Is the laptop in question the ASUS FX553VD? A little Web search suggests that it supports NVME M.2 SSDs, but I wish that I was certain. It worries me slightly that Crucial doesn't list any M.2 NVME SSD upgrades for it.

bobkn said:

I've done what "ignatzsonic" has done, multiple times.

Image the existing SSD to another drive, which could be the internal HD or an external one. Use the imaging software to create a bootable USB rescue drive. Swap SSDs. Boot from the USB rescue drive, and restore the image to the new SSD. Use Disk Management to resize the main partition if the new SSD is larger than the old, and the imaging software didn't already do that.

Is the laptop in question the ASUS FX553VD? A little Web search suggests that it supports NVME M.2 SSDs, but I wish that I was certain. It worries me slightly that Crucial doesn't list any M.2 NVME SSD upgrades for it.

Yeah it's funny. The Laptop model is FX553VD but the important part is that my motherboard is a GL553VD model which is compatible with NVME SSD's.
So I managed to install my new SSD successfully by installing windows from scratch. My Laptop is faster now so all my doubts too have been cleared.