If all tech guides could be this comprehensive and easy to understand the world would be a better place. Just went from 256 to a 2tb..not a hitch in sight. Great tutorial Charlie!
I have some questions please reply 1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ? 2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
@rajat9457 partition will automatically be there after the cloning is done as you are cloning the the whole drive. Partitions are included when cloning a drive. And if you have two slots you don't need the external enclosure.
This tutorial was EXACTLY what I needed! My son was gifted a 2TB NVMe SSD to replace his 500GB this past weekend for his 14th birthday... I had absolutey NO CLUE how to make the swap. I spent hours researching online and was about to return the NVMe for a SATA SSD to just gain the extra storage without risking messing something up. Then somehow I found this video. I ordered an enclosure on Sunday, it arrived today, and less than an hour later we were done with the swap with no issues at all! Thank you Charlie! You helped me do something I never would have attempted without the clear guidance you provided!
I have some questions please reply 1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ? 2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
@@rajat9457 Yes, however if you're using it as your main ssd (c drive/boot drive), you will want it to be in whichever slot is faster, usually the first slot. The second slot can absolutely be used if they're both the same speed, you will have to configure the boot drive in BIOS, however.
I upgraded to a 2tb without a hitch. Very easy to understand tutorial and not any detail missed. I didn't have to guess at anything. Local computer repair shops quoted $75 to $125 in labor only to do the clone. The re-purpose of the old drive is an added bonus! Thanks Charlie!
Not only is this a fantastic tutorial, I think that your ability to cover the topic so comprehensively makes me feel like an expert in the subject matter. Thank you for your instruction!
This is the best tech instructional video I have seen on RUclips, EVER. Detailed but concise, full of information and not missing anything out. Does what it says on the tin !!! I upgraded my onboard OS SSD to a larger capacity in double quick time. Reusing the old SSD in an external enclosure is genius !! Thanks @Tech Guy Charlie.
I have some questions please reply 1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ? 2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
I just wanted to say thank you! While I was professionally in the IT field for over a decade, I was put on the disabled list and no longer working due to being diagnosed with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis which causes major issues for me with short term memory and am needing to relearn some things I used to actually do so again, thank you!
I know virtually nothing about PC's. I had a 512 and was out of room. Bought a 2 TB and an enclosure, followed the instructions and ... works as advertised! I can't thank you enough Charlie. New subscriber here.
Thank you for the helpful and comprehensive tutorial! I followed it exactly, but after booting my pc with the new cloned ssd I got a blue screen saying that my pc didn't restart correctly. The solution I found was to go into troubleshoot > advanced options > restart in safe mode > restart again to boot normally. Sharing in case anyone else has a similar issue :) Everything worked perfect afterwards and I'm especially glad to be able to repurpose the old ssd.
Woke up this morning to a SMART error message on boot up on my 512gb internal ssd. Your video enabled me to transfer my operating system to my 1tb internal ssd i'd been using for game storage and remove the faulty drive. You've probably saved me a lot of money in technician fees. Thank you so much for making this!!!
I am really glad that I could be of help! Good thing you were quick to clone the faulty SSD, I've had an old SSD fail within 24 hours of it showing up SMART errors.
Dude, I just saved this video into my Favorites! Complete and very easy to understand. I have been working with computers since 2000, and this is one of the best, if not the best, and complete computer educational videos I have seen. Thanks a lot!
Did everything you instructed, but cloned ssd would not boot on the USB. After hours of beating our head against the wall, we took a break. Replaced Dhhd with solid state upgrade ,to 2TB. Clonned small c ssd to large d ssd. Removed original Cssd with larger ssd. Cloned D to new C. Worked fine. When trying to boot off newly cloned c in usb adapter, it would not boot because of the drivers. Once the new ssd was installed on motherboard and cloned off D ssd, the drivers were different and boot up was successful. It was the drivers that threw is off. My 128 GB ssd is now a 1TB ssd. The 1 TB hd (slow) was replaced with 2 TB ssd. I'm a happy camper.
@@inityoWhat do you mean? I’m having issue with this. The first boot after putting in new cloned SSD it boots normally but after 2nd or 3rd boot the boot partition isn’t correct. In bios it shows the Windows Boot Manager until 2nd or 3rd boot but after that it does not appear however it does in the boot selection screen as the third option and I must mention the name is blank.
Huge help, amazing tutorial. For people with two motherboard slots Don't worry as everything he does will work for you as well, And when he repurposes the old drive as a high speed USB drive you can repurpose it as backup storage on the motherboard Following the exact same process
Amazing tutorial. Save me so much time and I didn't have a single confused moment or issues. Did find out my laptop had a hidden second nvme slot during this so that's nice lol
Great video. One thing I've done to alleviate the warm enclosure is to get a small heatsink with fins (Amazon has them) and with a small quick grip clamp, lay the heatsink across the enclosure and very lightly clamp them together. This helps to dissipate the heat from the enclosure.
I have some questions please reply 1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ? 2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
@@rajat9457 The external NVMe enclosure acts as a second SSD slot for those that only have one slot. For your second question, I would do research on that. I'm sure there is another RUclips video or article guide out there.
Charlie, you totally rock! I had to upgrade my wife's computer from a measly 256GB SSD to 2TB and your tutorial made this a seamless process. Very easy to follow and understand. Many thanks!
Great tutorial. I got a new ssd for Christmas and was looking at different videos and this was the only one that explained how to do it in terms I could understand.
3:00 can do clone on a hdd with or without partitions 3:15 macrium reflect 8:15 repurposing the usb nvme, not necssary anymore 9:00 CAN STILL acess the drive w windows in it, even if not booted into it, so can throw filesin there for its remaiing space as needed
I watched Tech Guy Charlie’s video tutorial on cloning a NVMe SSD disk and I was very impressed. He explained everything clearly and made the process easy to follow. I ordered a similar NVMe SSD case to the one he recommended, and I was able to use my old drive as an external one. Thanks to him, I upgraded my PC without any hassle. More importantly, I saved a bit of money doing it myself as opposed to having my PC come with the larger storage drive. Great video, thanks Tech Guy Charlie! 👍
Works flawlessly thanks! Went from the stock ssd on my laptop to a 2TB samsung 990 pro, set the new drive to be the boot drive in the bios, cleaned the old drive, and now I've got faster write/read Speeds with extra capacity. Thank you for putting this together it is such valuable content!
@vegito_blue6226 Hey, I noticed in the video that the disk partition are gone after the cloning process and only c is shown. Is it true for you too or are your D and E disk intact?
One of the best tutorials I've come across in a while. Very detailed and well executed instructions. I never got a single problem following this step by step. Great work!
Charlie, I am now subscribed to your channel. I followed your video to the letter, right down to using the same enclosure (which happened to be on sale for 16.99 USD). I cloned the 512 GB in my desktop to a 1TB WD_BLACK SN770. I'll be honest that I didn't have much faith in Macrium based on issues I experienced with it many years ago. The entire procedure went flawlessly, however, thanks to your concise instructions. My enclosure did not get as hot as yours did. It stayed about 34 degrees the whole time. The new drive is smoking fast. I plan to do the same with another desktop I use for logging. Thanks for the excellent video! 👍👍👍👍👍
Fantastic Tutorial I swapped a 256gig C drive with a 2tb. I never was able to locate and disable Device Encryption. But I just went through with it on Windows 11 and it worked. So for anyone struggling with the Device encryption not showing up just try the full tutorial and see if it works. Worked for me. Good Work man
I keep running into issues when loading the new ssd. It tries to repair but can't find the issue. I removed everything and redid windows but it's a bunch of other stuff going on that makes it an incredibly long process to get it back to normal. Cloning would be great but im stuck in boot repair hell
@@jaegerpascoe I never fixed it fully. Mine locked up and wouldn't turn on even after I put the old hard drive back in. Turns out my laptop was super dusty inside and now it turns on. I'm scared to put the new hard drive for fear it'll go back out lol. I'm just gonna get a new one soon
Excellent writeup!! I’ve been wanting to upgrade my 512GB SSD in my laptop to a 2TB SSD but became concerned when I learned it only has 1 slot as I am not familiar with the proper procedure when you don’t have a 2nd slot. Watching this tutorial has alleviated all of my worries and I now feel fully comfortable doing it on my own!! Thank you, Charlie!!
Just did this clone to the letter and it failed to boot with errors after multiple self restarts :) In the BIOS I noticed the new SSD had been identified correctly. I tried changing the boot order in an attempt to get the BIOS to write something, but when I went to 'save changes and exit' I was told there was no changes to save. And the failed boot sequence again. I then went back to BIOS and did a self test on the new SSD. Which passed. Went to 'save changes and exit' again, knowing I hadn't changed anything, and got asked to confirm saving these test results. I said yes, that forced the BIOS to save changes, and then the system booted up perfectly so I could write this comment. TLDR : Get the BIOS to save changes by changing something, if you have what looks like a disaster on your hands. Maybe optimized defaults would be a safe choice for those who aren't too lazy to set all their Qfan parameters again. Thank you for your guide. Tip: don't panic even if things go horribly wrong, you still got your original drive that you just cloned safe right? [Update] The next day I got crashes. Eventually I uninstalled the SSD driver and rebooted. No crashes since then and no other problems. I recommend anyone trying this cloning to uninstall SSD driver after cloning but before the shut down for SSD swap. If these tips help someone following this procedure, then you are very welcome, remember to do the same for others if you get the chance.
I'm literally having the same issue, except I can not get mine to boot. I followed the instructions ✅️, I checked the UEFI and confirmed that the new SSD there ( system information/ storage) it says its NVMe. 1.81TB which I upgraded from 512GB. I got a Crucial T500 2TB Gen4 NVMe M.2 ssd (if that info helps ) I ran a couple of diagnostic tests which got saved to the Test log. I'm not sure what I'm missing. Thinking I'm just going have to put my original ssd back in. Ugh
You are awesome! You covered everything. After I cloned, I had like 1.5gb left unallocated on the new ssd. But after a quick search I just had to extend partition. Thank you so much for your help!
You saved me so much money with your guide. Out of all of the cloning guides yours is by far the most detail and step by step. Watching your guide actually made me seem like I knew what I was doing.😂 Thank you so much.
I have some questions please reply 1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ? 2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
I saw your link for this updated tutorial. With fingers crossed, I'm about to follow your tutorial. I ordered a larger 2tb NVMe M.2 SSD only to find that I had just one M.2 slot. My specs said I could add multiple SSD drives, and I did not fully check the motherboard before ordering. So I plan to install the larger drive and use the old SSD as an external drive in the enclosure. So far the migration is at 52%. Everything is going smoothly! Thanks again for your help and informative content.
@@TechGuyCharlie thanks to you, I completed the process flawlessly and cleaned the old ssd drive as you advised by command prompts. Your video was heaven-sent and I appreciated it. Last question: Is there a way to internally install the extra M.2 SSD with the PCle cables? Like an adapter? Just curious because my graphics card is inserted into the slot that could be used! Thanks again!!!!
@@Luis-tq7pc It's been a few week now since the task was done. It didn't take long. Somewhere around 30 minutes or less. I added 64gb of memory to the existing 16 prior to the new ssd install, so both upgrades were successful.
Awesome tutorial, easy to follow and well explained. Just one thing that I experienced, if you have an anti-virus scanning your drives, ensure it's deactivated before running the cloning process. It will cause it to fail and might mess up your drive.
That is actually a really useful tip, that actually might be the reason why some said the cloning process thew up error or it why the new drive didnt boot, and thank you, glad the video was helpful. 😊
This worked. Thank you. Just if there is anyone having issues, I kept getting an error 9. But I guess the source drive was too full. So I decided to uninstall a bunch of steam games, knowing I can re-install on the new drive, then it worked like a charm!
Hello Charlie, I'm having an issue. I followed the tutorial very closely but after I had cloned and swapped the drives my computer did not boot into windows. I instead got the message: "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key" I really have no idea what I've done wrong. I did clean the drive with cmd - diskpart before the cloning but I'm not sure how that would be a problem. I'm retrying now without ejecting the nvme enclosure before I swap the drives to see if that helps in any way but I'm not confident. I would really appreciate some pointers if you have any or if anyone else have run into the same problem and gotten a fix. Thanks!
I've researched a bit and I believe my issue is that the operating system is linked to an ID on the drive. As I don't want to mess with changing it (could break stuff as I'm not experienced enough) the only solution for me is to reinstall windows on the new drive and copy over the files from the old one afterwards. You might have the same problem.@@mattvsworld3266
Could you change the boot order in the BIOS settings? make sure that its actually booting from the new NVMe and not stuck to the old one. 🤔 please report back..
Hi, I did try that with the same message popping up. I also realized that it can't boot from the old one as it is in the external enclosure and I tried booting with both the external connected and unconnected to no avail. My next attempt will be to insert a bootable usb with windows when the message pops up and try to repair windows. Thanks and will update! @@TechGuyCharlie
Hello again Charlie, thought I'd check in. Macrium Reflect had an update (3 days before expiring phew) and it fixed everything. I think there was some operation that was supposed to run but didn't in the older version to fix windows not booting issue. So all is good now, thanks!@@TechGuyCharlie
I got an HTTP Boot Error after installing the new cloned drive. Setting the boot order in BIOS so the NVMe SSD was on top of the boot order cleared this error. Thank you TGC for this video!!!!!!
Was BitLocker disabled before cloning? The result you described is what I'd expect if BitLocker was still enabled when cloning. He briefly mentioned ensuring that BitLocker was disabled at 3:48
This video made my upgrade from a basic Samsung nvme to a WD850 nvme go flawlessly. Managed to double by read/write speeds and also increase my capacity from 500gb to 2Tb. Thank you for the clear and concise video!
i also did that a year ago but i also formatted the external ssd ( i had to search on youtube on how to delete the partitions and it worked for me!) so now i am happily using the external ssd for more storage btw i saw your tutorial kinda easy ! i wish i clicked on your video at that time when i was cloning my ssd
A gem of a video! Clear, concise and detailed. I am literally right now building a new system and was wondering what to do with my old 256Gb nvme drive - now it's going to be a super fast external - thank you!
All went smoothly until reboot. I did internal m2. swap. Principal was the same. Changed Bios to boot to new drive. Worked fine. Cleared old drive upon reboot. Ten hours later and a windows restore I had fixed. I have always had issues with every OS from MS. No surprise really but I never found a way to get that new drive to boot even using several resources. My internal transfer speeds between M2’s reach 3,000 mbps.
did h solve this issue? Just did whole steps and tried swapping the m.2s, mine wont even boot. Now deleted the new m.2 and restarting from step 1 incase i messed up anything
The best video I came across, I spent hours on how to upgrade it step by step but couldn't find any video then I came across this video and this was really useful , thankyou so much
I have a HP Pavilion Gaming laptop that has gotten slow over the years when editing large photo files in Lightroom - I followed this tutorial and that of replacing the ram - I now have a super fast laptop with 32gb ram, an ssd of 1tb and a hdd of 1tb - thank you so much.
should i have to sign out microsoft account from my computer before swapping to a cloned SSD? btw thanks for excellent guide, yesterday i got my new samsung 990 pro 2tb to upgrade the system disk (disk C) on my tuf gaming f15, but i'm not ready yet for some reason 😕
You don't need to sign out of anything, but you DO need to shut down your computer before opening it and swapping parts. Your new drive will have all your stored passwords and logins when you're done.
Thank you very much for this tutorial, it helped a lot. I've cloned my unit on Windows 10 and Im about to proceed to install it into my pc. Would this make no difference as the unit has a different letter and the directory is completely different?
I just finished upgrading my hp laptop's ram from 8gb to 32gb and ssd from 256gb to 1tb following your step by step instructions and everything went perfectly and amazingly well. I got a Ugreen m.2 nvme enclosure because it was cheaper , a Crucial pcle 3.0 ssd and a Crucial ddr4 3200 sodimm ram on amazon and installing them was easy thanks to your tutorial. Thanks alot man, you're the best men 👍
This is exactly what we non-tech people need a step by step detalied tutorial that does not leave anything out. I now have a large enough internal ssd and a super fast external drive. Thanks!
Everything was awesome, just the portable assembly part... the golden metal piece goes between ssd and adapter, screw goes under, to adapter side, that way you wont put much stress pushing ssd too low, which is what youre doing at 8:25
I have installed and supporting Point Of Sale Systems for over 25 years (self Taught for the most part) and have been exposed to many instructors either in person, remoted in to my systems, or videos... After watching your (How To Clone NV ME SSD to NEW or LARGER NV Me SSD) I had top take the time to tell you how much I appreciated how complete the tutorial was, I liked how you broke it up into sections! Also you talked slowly and were very easy to understand. Thank You Very Much...
5:41 Right there! Behind the screen displaying the progress, you can see "Destination Disk..." in red letters, exact same error showed up when following this tutorial, I think it is a generic error that happens in the cloning process? Perhaps Macrium, or Windows -more likely-, "think" that the disk can't be found because that disk is being written to, reformatted, or something? Either way, they should come up with a better message than just a generic "Disk not found" error, part of the process or not, it freaked me out when I saw it. Will report back after complening the cloning process in a few days, hopefully everything went well.
Sweet, everything went as it should, thanks again for this video, it was extremely informative, accurate, and helpful. Now, to enjoy that new NVME!!! WhooooOO!!!
I'll be doing this from a generic 500gb to a Crucial T500 1TB in about a week, and I'm a bit nervous about it. I grew up using the spinning drives, but this is a very detailed guide and I am grateful for the step-by-step. I'll do my best to follow it.
@@TechGuyCharlie Thanks to your instructions, I did it perfectly and it cloned well. I was going to leave the 500GB as a backup, but for now I just made it a separate drive like you did in the video. Gave me a weird pop-up about re-formatting when I was making a new volume, but I disregarded and it finished allocating without further issue. I'm sure if I need to I could backup at least a part of my system to the 500GB. I was only using about 280GB of the 500GB, but I wanted to move to the 1TB Crucial with faster speed for my work and gaming rather than continuing to use the slower, generic SSD.. Thanks for all you do.
Excellent Tutorial, Had a dell optiplex 3000 in work with a 256gb ssd that was way too small. The IT manager kept deferring fixing the issue so i bought an SSD enclosure and followed your video. Worked exactly as you explained, now ive got plenty of storage on the C drive and a handy portable hard drive. Many thanks for this guide.
I'm looking to upgrade my storage or my m.2. I didn't understand how I'd do it with an itx system with only one m.2 slot and no extra nvme slots, but even after the last tutorial I completely understand what I need and how to do it. You made two really good tutorials. Good job!
Fantastic tutorial. Every step clear and easy, I just replaced my daughter's 256gb nvme ssd with 1TB in a dell latitude laptop. You saved me a lot of time.
Wow man this was super fast and right to the point. I actually did it without the enclosure because I had two NVme slots on my desktop. I was hesitant to delete the other disk but cleaned it out, now I can use my freed up SSD in my PS5!
I'm totally lost when i it comes to computers and stuff, however i followed this guide by the letter, and i had no problem, taken i have hearing and reading disability as well, yet i managed to complete the task, so id say 100% perfect.
This is exactly why I make these videos!! Thank you so much, I am super glad to hear that you were able to follow the guide and clone your drive without any issues.
holy crap! what a perfect guide, took me less than a half hour to get this all set up. Saved me from having to reinstall windows and every over again thank you!!!!
Thank you so much for this Charlie! You and macrium effect are the real MVPs. Successfully migrated from a stock ssd to a Samsung 990 Pro with no problems, I followed every step. Love you man, liked and subscribed!
I went over A LOT of videos! Yours on how to do this was *chefs kiss*! Seriously! I was able to follow step by step NO PROBLEM! Great video guys! Thanks a bunch!
I can't think of anything to say that hasn't already been said. I agree, these instructions are easy to follow, precise, and right on target. Thank you!
Thank you for making such a well put together totorial! Ninja at the computer store wanted 125 for this. Bought a 10 dollar enclosure and now i have a badass drive as well. You the real MVP! 😂
DUDE THANK YOU! I DID THIS WITH THE LATEST MACRIUM REFLECT 8 HOME TRIAL ON MY PC. IT WORKED WITH OUT ANY ISSUES!!!!! I went from 250gb thinking it was enough for my boot drive, but it started stuttering. Went to 2tb now. It's smooth like butter. [As of 2-12-2024]
Normally I try to get an adapter to sata, but for the NVME ssd it's hard to find, now I found this tutorial and wauw perfect, even without opening the laptop I can get a complete m2 nvme ssd copy. Many great thanks very good understandable and I'm running the software at the moment, takes some tim but it is working , thank you for this
Typing this from my freshly cloned SSD following these steps and was surprised I only had to watch about 1/3rd of the video to get all the info I needed. Thank you sir.
Later this year I will be upgrading to a faster SSD with more storage and will come back to this video for its proper cloning process. I've already watched it once and it seems pretty easy/straightforward
Very well presented. I was able to clone and upgrade to a larger drive on the first try with no anxiety. Everything worked exactly as you demonstrated. Thank you for making the video.
Excellent video! Thank you!! Really helped with navigating the process for a first-timer! I did have a bit of confusion over the Error Code 9 issue, which would have been nice in the video as it seems to be quite common. The resolution for me was to switch off all of my Anti-Virus software. Big Ups!
Thank you for this guide. I'm a newbie and I follow your step by step, and I successfully upgraded my Asus TUF from 256gb to 1tb. Greetings and salutations btw from the Philippines.
I just ordered my 1 tb nvme ssd and enclosure and will do the clone as per your video. Thank you for shaming your knowledge sir. Very greatly appreciated.
Just followed you step by step with my replacement m.2 (added second one to mobo and will use original as extra storage). Currently cloning a lot of data. Thank you so much for your clarity of instruction and helpful adlibs of information for slightly differing situations. So helpful
I spoke too soon haha. I did it and booted to the new drive i had cloned the older drive to, it showed as C drive, so I cleaned the old drive all was good. now when i reboot I have a blue screen 0xc000000e error and unable to boot to windows :( just tried to repair windows didn't work, trying to reinstall windows and now it's saying I can't reinstall on the primary partition because it is using a GPT as opposed to MBR (for win10). Think I'm just gonna have to lose the data and fresh install. Nevermind
@@liamlambert2579 did you guys sort this? I am away to do the same thing, boot to the new cloned NVME then clean the old NVME, would you advise just leaving the old one as the boot drive and not clear it?
Thanks, Charlie this was a great help. I wanted to clone my old SSD from my old computer so I could use it in my new one which came with a small SSD. I used your info on how to repurpose my old SSD before I went back in your video on how to clone it. I worked a treat saved me from buying a new one.
Hey, I followed everything you did step by step but my laptop in running into blue screen error reason showing INACCESSIBLE BOOT DRIVE. Really confused and frustrated it has been 6 hrs trying to figure this shit out. Can you help?
In my case, my machine has two NVMe slots.... when I clone and change them, the machine will always boot from the Primary one, that is, from the slot that always started... isn't it confusing? Thanks in advance
Thanks for simple and effective explanation , used exact same way that you recommended and successfully done it. I faced error code 8 first 7 tries , realized either the connection cable was faulty or ssd was getting too hot connection was disturbed and lost . Then I had to delete files over 200 gb to from my 500gb ssd , then the transfer was faster and it finally completed the whole transfer without losing the connection . If any1 getting error code 8 , it means connection during the transfer is lost , either faulty cable or you unplugged it by mistake or even something else .
If all tech guides could be this comprehensive and easy to understand the world would be a better place. Just went from 256 to a 2tb..not a hitch in sight. Great tutorial Charlie!
This means a LOT to me!! Thank you, really glad the video was helpful. 😊
i agreed, honestly i haven't tried this method but it's seem legit to try. i hope my pc would be fine :)
I have some questions please reply
1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ?
2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
yes you can, i'm using third party apps @@rajat9457
@rajat9457 partition will automatically be there after the cloning is done as you are cloning the the whole drive. Partitions are included when cloning a drive. And if you have two slots you don't need the external enclosure.
This tutorial was EXACTLY what I needed! My son was gifted a 2TB NVMe SSD to replace his 500GB this past weekend for his 14th birthday... I had absolutey NO CLUE how to make the swap. I spent hours researching online and was about to return the NVMe for a SATA SSD to just gain the extra storage without risking messing something up. Then somehow I found this video. I ordered an enclosure on Sunday, it arrived today, and less than an hour later we were done with the swap with no issues at all! Thank you Charlie! You helped me do something I never would have attempted without the clear guidance you provided!
I have some questions please reply
1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ?
2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
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@@rajat9457 Yes
@@rajat9457 Yes, however if you're using it as your main ssd (c drive/boot drive), you will want it to be in whichever slot is faster, usually the first slot. The second slot can absolutely be used if they're both the same speed, you will have to configure the boot drive in BIOS, however.
Did you use any thermal pads?
I upgraded to a 2tb without a hitch. Very easy to understand tutorial and not any detail missed. I didn't have to guess at anything. Local computer repair shops quoted $75 to $125 in labor only to do the clone. The re-purpose of the old drive is an added bonus! Thanks Charlie!
Not only is this a fantastic tutorial, I think that your ability to cover the topic so comprehensively makes me feel like an expert in the subject matter. Thank you for your instruction!
Thank you! Glad the video was helpful. 😊
This is the best tech instructional video I have seen on RUclips, EVER. Detailed but concise, full of information and not missing anything out. Does what it says on the tin !!! I upgraded my onboard OS SSD to a larger capacity in double quick time. Reusing the old SSD in an external enclosure is genius !! Thanks @Tech Guy Charlie.
FYI - Subscribed 😉
I am super glad to hear this, happy to see you were able to clone without any issues! 😊 and welcome to the channel.
I have some questions please reply
1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ?
2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
Nice tutorial, actually, MS could easily ask for a new product key when the hard drive is replaced. But it seems they don't do that.
@@TechGuyCharlieDoesn't this Void Warranty?? If done within Warranty period?
I just wanted to say thank you! While I was professionally in the IT field for over a decade, I was put on the disabled list and no longer working due to being diagnosed with Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis which causes major issues for me with short term memory and am needing to relearn some things I used to actually do so again, thank you!
I know virtually nothing about PC's. I had a 512 and was out of room. Bought a 2 TB and an enclosure, followed the instructions and ... works as advertised! I can't thank you enough Charlie. New subscriber here.
Hey, I am really glad the video was helpful and welcome to the channel! 😊
So I just came from your original tutorial from two years ago, and I got nothing but praise towards you. Fantasic and straightforward, thank you!!
Thank you for the helpful and comprehensive tutorial! I followed it exactly, but after booting my pc with the new cloned ssd I got a blue screen saying that my pc didn't restart correctly.
The solution I found was to go into troubleshoot > advanced options > restart in safe mode > restart again to boot normally. Sharing in case anyone else has a similar issue :)
Everything worked perfect afterwards and I'm especially glad to be able to repurpose the old ssd.
This just saved me a huge headache thank you!
give me a big smooch bc this worked after 2 hours of heartache
Having the same issue, but restart in safe mode is not an option.. helpppp
thank you are the best!
@@aaronwebb5841 you must have this in advanced settings
Woke up this morning to a SMART error message on boot up on my 512gb internal ssd. Your video enabled me to transfer my operating system to my 1tb internal ssd i'd been using for game storage and remove the faulty drive. You've probably saved me a lot of money in technician fees. Thank you so much for making this!!!
I am really glad that I could be of help! Good thing you were quick to clone the faulty SSD, I've had an old SSD fail within 24 hours of it showing up SMART errors.
@@TechGuyCharlie Wow. Now I feel even luckier than I did after finding your video!
Dude, I just saved this video into my Favorites!
Complete and very easy to understand. I have been working with computers since 2000, and this is one of the best, if not the best, and complete computer educational videos I have seen. Thanks a lot!
I agree.
Briefly: Excellent video. Direct and to the point. Moves at just the right pace. I followed the process and had no problems whatsoever.
Thank you!! Glad you the process went smoothly!
Did everything you instructed, but cloned ssd would not boot on the USB. After hours of beating our head against the wall, we took a break. Replaced Dhhd with solid state upgrade ,to 2TB. Clonned small c ssd to large d ssd. Removed original Cssd with larger ssd. Cloned D to new C. Worked fine. When trying to boot off newly cloned c in usb adapter, it would not boot because of the drivers. Once the new ssd was installed on motherboard and cloned off D ssd, the drivers were different and boot up was successful. It was the drivers that threw is off. My 128 GB ssd is now a 1TB ssd. The 1 TB hd (slow) was replaced with 2 TB ssd. I'm a happy camper.
Please teach me guy
I think the issue is the partition
I think your issue is the partician at cloning. One of them needs to be at the left
@@inityoWhat do you mean? I’m having issue with this. The first boot after putting in new cloned SSD it boots normally but after 2nd or 3rd boot the boot partition isn’t correct. In bios it shows the Windows Boot Manager until 2nd or 3rd boot but after that it does not appear however it does in the boot selection screen as the third option and I must mention the name is blank.
After reading your paragraph now I am hitting my head to a wall 🙂 thank you
Huge help, amazing tutorial. For people with two motherboard slots Don't worry as everything he does will work for you as well, And when he repurposes the old drive as a high speed USB drive you can repurpose it as backup storage on the motherboard Following the exact same process
Amazing tutorial. Save me so much time and I didn't have a single confused moment or issues. Did find out my laptop had a hidden second nvme slot during this so that's nice lol
That is awesome! Glad to hear it. Its even easier to clone with a 2nd slot, then you dont need an enclosure.
what laptop do you have? I would like to setup one with RAID1 drives.
Thanks for the video. It works. Don't forget to turn on device encryption after finishing up.
Followed your tutorial and did it smoothly. You saved lives for this.
That sounds awesome! Thank you! 😊
@7:34 - if you show disk management instead, is the new hard drive showing the partition split?
Great video. One thing I've done to alleviate the warm enclosure is to get a small heatsink with fins (Amazon has them) and with a small quick grip clamp, lay the heatsink across the enclosure and very lightly clamp them together. This helps to dissipate the heat from the enclosure.
I just moved to alaska and did the install outside. huh. To each their own.
I have some questions please reply
1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ?
2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
@@rajat9457 The external NVMe enclosure acts as a second SSD slot for those that only have one slot. For your second question, I would do research on that. I'm sure there is another RUclips video or article guide out there.
9 min time stamp in video talks about partitions
Charlie, you totally rock! I had to upgrade my wife's computer from a measly 256GB SSD to 2TB and your tutorial made this a seamless process. Very easy to follow and understand. Many thanks!
Sounds awesome!! Glad the video was helpful. 😊
Great tutorial. I got a new ssd for Christmas and was looking at different videos and this was the only one that explained how to do it in terms I could understand.
Exactly the same, only problem was that I had bitlocker on and had to wait 5 hours for it to turn off😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
3:00 can do clone on a hdd with or without partitions
3:15 macrium reflect
8:15 repurposing the usb nvme, not necssary anymore
9:00 CAN STILL acess the drive w windows in it, even if not booted into it, so can throw filesin there for its remaiing space as needed
I watched Tech Guy Charlie’s video tutorial on cloning a NVMe SSD disk and I was very impressed. He explained everything clearly and made the process easy to follow. I ordered a similar NVMe SSD case to the one he recommended, and I was able to use my old drive as an external one. Thanks to him, I upgraded my PC without any hassle. More importantly, I saved a bit of money doing it myself as opposed to having my PC come with the larger storage drive. Great video, thanks Tech Guy Charlie! 👍
This means a LOT man!! Thank you, really glad the video was able to help you out.
Works flawlessly thanks! Went from the stock ssd on my laptop to a 2TB samsung 990 pro, set the new drive to be the boot drive in the bios, cleaned the old drive, and now I've got faster write/read Speeds with extra capacity. Thank you for putting this together it is such valuable content!
This sounds awesome! Glad to hear the upgrade went smoothly.
The whole process was a breeze and thanks a lot for the detailed step by step walkthrough. Also thanks on doing an updated version with latest NVMe
@vegito_blue6226 Hey, I noticed in the video that the disk partition are gone after the cloning process and only c is shown. Is it true for you too or are your D and E disk intact?
One of the best tutorials I've come across in a while. Very detailed and well executed instructions. I never got a single problem following this step by step. Great work!
Thank you!! Glad you were able to clone without any hiccups.
Charlie, I am now subscribed to your channel. I followed your video to the letter, right down to using the same enclosure (which happened to be on sale for 16.99 USD). I cloned the 512 GB in my desktop to a 1TB WD_BLACK SN770. I'll be honest that I didn't have much faith in Macrium based on issues I experienced with it many years ago. The entire procedure went flawlessly, however, thanks to your concise instructions. My enclosure did not get as hot as yours did. It stayed about 34 degrees the whole time. The new drive is smoking fast. I plan to do the same with another desktop I use for logging. Thanks for the excellent video! 👍👍👍👍👍
Fantastic Tutorial I swapped a 256gig C drive with a 2tb. I never was able to locate and disable Device Encryption. But I just went through with it on Windows 11 and it worked. So for anyone struggling with the Device encryption not showing up just try the full tutorial and see if it works. Worked for me. Good Work man
I wasn't able to locate it either. I went into the command prompt and typed "manage-bde -status" and I guess it was decrypted already.
That sounds awesome! I guess encryption wasn't present in the first place, I am glad it worked out.
I keep running into issues when loading the new ssd. It tries to repair but can't find the issue. I removed everything and redid windows but it's a bunch of other stuff going on that makes it an incredibly long process to get it back to normal. Cloning would be great but im stuck in boot repair hell
Your issue is the way you cloned it, it I remember correctly it's because you need to move one of the partitions to the left
@@inityo I'll check it out. Lost the free trial to the cloning software though lol
I'm having the same issue what was your fix?
@@jaegerpascoe I never fixed it fully. Mine locked up and wouldn't turn on even after I put the old hard drive back in. Turns out my laptop was super dusty inside and now it turns on. I'm scared to put the new hard drive for fear it'll go back out lol. I'm just gonna get a new one soon
Right thanks, I'm getting that repair issue loading onto new ssd I was wondering what the guy above was mentioning about moving partitions
Excellent writeup!! I’ve been wanting to upgrade my 512GB SSD in my laptop to a 2TB SSD but became concerned when I learned it only has 1 slot as I am not familiar with the proper procedure when you don’t have a 2nd slot. Watching this tutorial has alleviated all of my worries and I now feel fully comfortable doing it on my own!! Thank you, Charlie!!
Just did this clone to the letter and it failed to boot with errors after multiple self restarts :) In the BIOS I noticed the new SSD had been identified correctly. I tried changing the boot order in an attempt to get the BIOS to write something, but when I went to 'save changes and exit' I was told there was no changes to save. And the failed boot sequence again. I then went back to BIOS and did a self test on the new SSD. Which passed. Went to 'save changes and exit' again, knowing I hadn't changed anything, and got asked to confirm saving these test results. I said yes, that forced the BIOS to save changes, and then the system booted up perfectly so I could write this comment. TLDR : Get the BIOS to save changes by changing something, if you have what looks like a disaster on your hands. Maybe optimized defaults would be a safe choice for those who aren't too lazy to set all their Qfan parameters again. Thank you for your guide. Tip: don't panic even if things go horribly wrong, you still got your original drive that you just cloned safe right?
[Update] The next day I got crashes. Eventually I uninstalled the SSD driver and rebooted. No crashes since then and no other problems. I recommend anyone trying this cloning to uninstall SSD driver after cloning but before the shut down for SSD swap. If these tips help someone following this procedure, then you are very welcome, remember to do the same for others if you get the chance.
I'm literally having the same issue, except I can not get mine to boot. I followed the instructions ✅️, I checked the UEFI and confirmed that the new SSD there ( system information/ storage) it says its NVMe. 1.81TB which I upgraded from 512GB.
I got a Crucial T500 2TB Gen4 NVMe M.2 ssd (if that info helps )
I ran a couple of diagnostic tests which got saved to the Test log.
I'm not sure what I'm missing.
Thinking I'm just going have to put my original ssd back in. Ugh
You are awesome! You covered everything. After I cloned, I had like 1.5gb left unallocated on the new ssd. But after a quick search I just had to extend partition. Thank you so much for your help!
Awesome!! Glad to hear that the cloning process went smoothly. 😉
Impressive. Easy. Clear. This guy is genius. Very generous for sharing as well. Thank you.
You saved me so much money with your guide. Out of all of the cloning guides yours is by far the most detail and step by step. Watching your guide actually made me seem like I knew what I was doing.😂 Thank you so much.
Your video is far and away the best I’ve seen for doing this and I followed it in upgrading my internal NVME SSD TO 2 TB. Thanks!
Hey Mike, glad you were able to upgrade! 😊
I have some questions please reply
1. My laptop has two SSD slot so i don't need external NVMe enclosure ?
2. after cloning old ssd to new ssd can i able to do Disk partition after cloning done ?
I saw your link for this updated tutorial. With fingers crossed, I'm about to follow your tutorial. I ordered a larger 2tb NVMe M.2 SSD only to find that I had just one M.2 slot. My specs said I could add multiple SSD drives, and I did not fully check the motherboard before ordering. So I plan to install the larger drive and use the old SSD as an external drive in the enclosure. So far the migration is at 52%. Everything is going smoothly! Thanks again for your help and informative content.
Hey, how did it go? were you able to upgrade to the new SSD?
@@TechGuyCharlie thanks to you, I completed the process flawlessly and cleaned the old ssd drive as you advised by command prompts. Your video was heaven-sent and I appreciated it. Last question: Is there a way to internally install the extra M.2 SSD with the PCle cables? Like an adapter? Just curious because my graphics card is inserted into the slot that could be used! Thanks again!!!!
So glad you literally just did this. I've been so hesitant to try this. I feel alot better now. Thanks
@@BoomDocs14K
how long did it take to transfer?
@@Luis-tq7pc It's been a few week now since the task was done. It didn't take long. Somewhere around 30 minutes or less. I added 64gb of memory to the existing 16 prior to the new ssd install, so both upgrades were successful.
Awesome tutorial, easy to follow and well explained. Just one thing that I experienced, if you have an anti-virus scanning your drives, ensure it's deactivated before running the cloning process. It will cause it to fail and might mess up your drive.
That is actually a really useful tip, that actually might be the reason why some said the cloning process thew up error or it why the new drive didnt boot, and thank you, glad the video was helpful. 😊
Dude this happened to me multiple times. Disabled and it worked!!!
Would Windows Defender apply to this as well?
@@crimsonwizahd2358 I cloned another drive with only Windows Defender active. Didn't cause any problems.
Such an informative video and so easy to follow. Thank you very much!
I appreciate this so much!! Thank you! and I am really glad the video was helpful. 😊
Just done upgrading my ASUS laptop! Thank you so much. No problem at all upon installation. Kudos!
Hey, glad I could help! 😊
This worked. Thank you. Just if there is anyone having issues, I kept getting an error 9. But I guess the source drive was too full. So I decided to uninstall a bunch of steam games, knowing I can re-install on the new drive, then it worked like a charm!
Hello Charlie, I'm having an issue. I followed the tutorial very closely but after I had cloned and swapped the drives my computer did not boot into windows. I instead got the message:
"reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"
I really have no idea what I've done wrong. I did clean the drive with cmd - diskpart before the cloning but I'm not sure how that would be a problem. I'm retrying now without ejecting the nvme enclosure before I swap the drives to see if that helps in any way but I'm not confident. I would really appreciate some pointers if you have any or if anyone else have run into the same problem and gotten a fix. Thanks!
I'm getting this as well!
I've researched a bit and I believe my issue is that the operating system is linked to an ID on the drive. As I don't want to mess with changing it (could break stuff as I'm not experienced enough) the only solution for me is to reinstall windows on the new drive and copy over the files from the old one afterwards. You might have the same problem.@@mattvsworld3266
Could you change the boot order in the BIOS settings? make sure that its actually booting from the new NVMe and not stuck to the old one. 🤔 please report back..
Hi, I did try that with the same message popping up. I also realized that it can't boot from the old one as it is in the external enclosure and I tried booting with both the external connected and unconnected to no avail. My next attempt will be to insert a bootable usb with windows when the message pops up and try to repair windows.
Thanks and will update! @@TechGuyCharlie
Hello again Charlie, thought I'd check in. Macrium Reflect had an update (3 days before expiring phew) and it fixed everything. I think there was some operation that was supposed to run but didn't in the older version to fix windows not booting issue. So all is good now, thanks!@@TechGuyCharlie
I got an HTTP Boot Error after installing the new cloned drive. Setting the boot order in BIOS so the NVMe SSD was on top of the boot order cleared this error. Thank you TGC for this video!!!!!!
Would love to say it works,but unfortunately no matter what clone software it doesn't boot and has blue screen with inaccessible boot error. 😢
Was BitLocker disabled before cloning? The result you described is what I'd expect if BitLocker was still enabled when cloning. He briefly mentioned ensuring that BitLocker was disabled at 3:48
This video made my upgrade from a basic Samsung nvme to a WD850 nvme go flawlessly. Managed to double by read/write speeds and also increase my capacity from 500gb to 2Tb. Thank you for the clear and concise video!
You’ve put a lot of effort into this tutorial. Much appreciated and well done
Thank you! I am glad the video was helpful. 😊
i also did that a year ago
but i also formatted the external ssd ( i had to search on youtube on how to delete the partitions and it worked for me!) so now i am happily using the external ssd for more storage
btw i saw your tutorial kinda easy !
i wish i clicked on your video at that time when i was cloning my ssd
worked perfect thank you for your time spent helping us all
Super glad! 😊
A gem of a video! Clear, concise and detailed. I am literally right now building a new system and was wondering what to do with my old 256Gb nvme drive - now it's going to be a super fast external - thank you!
Really glad I could help! 😊
All went smoothly until reboot. I did internal m2. swap. Principal was the same. Changed Bios to boot to new drive. Worked fine. Cleared old drive upon reboot. Ten hours later and a windows restore I had fixed. I have always had issues with every OS from MS. No surprise really but I never found a way to get that new drive to boot even using several resources. My internal transfer speeds between M2’s reach 3,000 mbps.
did h solve this issue? Just did whole steps and tried swapping the m.2s, mine wont even boot. Now deleted the new m.2 and restarting from step 1 incase i messed up anything
The best video I came across, I spent hours on how to upgrade it step by step but couldn't find any video then I came across this video and this was really useful , thankyou so much
This is perfect thanks.... clear, concise and incredibly helpful...
Glad the video was helpful. 😊
I have a HP Pavilion Gaming laptop that has gotten slow over the years when editing large photo files in Lightroom - I followed this tutorial and that of replacing the ram - I now have a super fast laptop with 32gb ram, an ssd of 1tb and a hdd of 1tb - thank you so much.
Sounds awesome!! Glad I could help.
should i have to sign out microsoft account from my computer before swapping to a cloned SSD? btw thanks for excellent guide, yesterday i got my new samsung 990 pro 2tb to upgrade the system disk (disk C) on my tuf gaming f15, but i'm not ready yet for some reason 😕
You don't need to sign out of anything, but you DO need to shut down your computer before opening it and swapping parts. Your new drive will have all your stored passwords and logins when you're done.
Thank you very much for this tutorial, it helped a lot. I've cloned my unit on Windows 10 and Im about to proceed to install it into my pc. Would this make no difference as the unit has a different letter and the directory is completely different?
I just finished upgrading my hp laptop's ram from 8gb to 32gb and ssd from 256gb to 1tb following your step by step instructions and everything went perfectly and amazingly well. I got a Ugreen m.2 nvme enclosure because it was cheaper , a Crucial pcle 3.0 ssd and a Crucial ddr4 3200 sodimm ram on amazon and installing them was easy thanks to your tutorial. Thanks alot man, you're the best men 👍
Thank you. I tried your tutorial and it still work (December 2024) smoothly.
Awesome!! glad everything went well.
This is exactly what we non-tech people need a step by step detalied tutorial that does not leave anything out. I now have a large enough internal ssd and a super fast external drive. Thanks!
I'm super glad to hear the video was helpful 😊
Everything was awesome, just the portable assembly part... the golden metal piece goes between ssd and adapter, screw goes under, to adapter side, that way you wont put much stress pushing ssd too low, which is what youre doing at 8:25
I have installed and supporting Point Of Sale Systems for over 25 years (self Taught for the most part) and have been exposed to many instructors either in person, remoted in to my systems, or videos... After watching your (How To Clone NV ME SSD to NEW or LARGER NV Me SSD) I had top take the time to tell you how much I appreciated how complete the tutorial was, I liked how you broke it up into sections! Also you talked slowly and were very easy to understand. Thank You Very Much...
Thank you so much!! Easy peasy.. no issues at all!! Went from a 500 gig M.2 to 2TB M.2 drive. Didn't have to reinstall anothing!
Sounds awesome!! Glad everything worked out well.
5:41 Right there! Behind the screen displaying the progress, you can see "Destination Disk..." in red letters, exact same error showed up when following this tutorial, I think it is a generic error that happens in the cloning process? Perhaps Macrium, or Windows -more likely-, "think" that the disk can't be found because that disk is being written to, reformatted, or something?
Either way, they should come up with a better message than just a generic "Disk not found" error, part of the process or not, it freaked me out when I saw it. Will report back after complening the cloning process in a few days, hopefully everything went well.
Sweet, everything went as it should, thanks again for this video, it was extremely informative, accurate, and helpful. Now, to enjoy that new NVME!!! WhooooOO!!!
Hey, glad the video was helpful, I didnt notice the error until you pointed it out lol 😊
I'll be doing this from a generic 500gb to a Crucial T500 1TB in about a week, and I'm a bit nervous about it. I grew up using the spinning drives, but this is a very detailed guide and I am grateful for the step-by-step. I'll do my best to follow it.
Thank you, please let me know if everything goes smoothly!
Fun fact, the procedure is exactly the same if you were cloning a spinning drive :D
@@TechGuyCharlie Thanks to your instructions, I did it perfectly and it cloned well. I was going to leave the 500GB as a backup, but for now I just made it a separate drive like you did in the video. Gave me a weird pop-up about re-formatting when I was making a new volume, but I disregarded and it finished allocating without further issue. I'm sure if I need to I could backup at least a part of my system to the 500GB. I was only using about 280GB of the 500GB, but I wanted to move to the 1TB Crucial with faster speed for my work and gaming rather than continuing to use the slower, generic SSD.. Thanks for all you do.
Excellent Tutorial,
Had a dell optiplex 3000 in work with a 256gb ssd that was way too small. The IT manager kept deferring fixing the issue so i bought an SSD enclosure and followed your video. Worked exactly as you explained, now ive got plenty of storage on the C drive and a handy portable hard drive. Many thanks for this guide.
Sounds great!! I am happy and glad to hear the video was helpful. 😊
This is just what I was looking for. I had no idea about the enclosure. I'll have to get one soon.
Great video, but I looked up enclosure and it is selling for $2000 on Amazon?
Thank you, and the price is in INR which comes out to about 24 USD, you might want to check for the same enclosure on your local Amazon site.
@@TechGuyCharlie Thank you for the clarity.
I'm looking to upgrade my storage or my m.2. I didn't understand how I'd do it with an itx system with only one m.2 slot and no extra nvme slots, but even after the last tutorial I completely understand what I need and how to do it. You made two really good tutorials. Good job!
Fantastic tutorial. Every step clear and easy, I just replaced my daughter's 256gb nvme ssd with 1TB in a dell latitude laptop. You saved me a lot of time.
Sounds awesome! Glad the video was helpful. 😊
Wow man this was super fast and right to the point. I actually did it without the enclosure because I had two NVme slots on my desktop. I was hesitant to delete the other disk but cleaned it out, now I can use my freed up SSD in my PS5!
I'm totally lost when i it comes to computers and stuff, however i followed this guide by the letter, and i had no problem, taken i have hearing and reading disability as well, yet i managed to complete the task, so id say 100% perfect.
This is exactly why I make these videos!! Thank you so much, I am super glad to hear that you were able to follow the guide and clone your drive without any issues.
Tackled every aspect of the cloning process perfectly. Thank you!
This tutorial is the best. I simply followed it along and worked without a hitch. I am in the IT business and this does not happen that often.
holy crap! what a perfect guide, took me less than a half hour to get this all set up. Saved me from having to reinstall windows and every over again thank you!!!!
Saved me, thank you. So many guides skip the part of selecting extend volume before doing the clone.
Wish I had watched this video first.
I also kind of skipped that part in my previous video about cloning 😂 Then I had to make this one, looks like it was a good idea!
This is the best walkthrough ever. Super helpful and easily comprehendible.
Glad it was helpful! 😊
This worked great for me, going from a 1tb to a 2tb NVME drive. Thanks a lot for sharing this very convenient tutorial!
Thank you so much for this Charlie! You and macrium effect are the real MVPs. Successfully migrated from a stock ssd to a Samsung 990 Pro with no problems, I followed every step. Love you man, liked and subscribed!
TY . New Sub Here. I bought a mini pc and I love it so far but its begging for a larger ssd and now I know how to do it thanks to you . All the best.
Glad the video was helpful, let me know if this method works out? 😊
I went over A LOT of videos! Yours on how to do this was *chefs kiss*! Seriously! I was able to follow step by step NO PROBLEM! Great video guys! Thanks a bunch!
I can't think of anything to say that hasn't already been said. I agree, these instructions are easy to follow, precise, and right on target. Thank you!
Great to hear! 😊
Best tutorial I could possibly find to achieve this task. Thank you!
Thank you! Glad the video was helpful. 😊
Thank you for making such a well put together totorial! Ninja at the computer store wanted 125 for this. Bought a 10 dollar enclosure and now i have a badass drive as well. You the real MVP! 😂
DUDE THANK YOU!
I DID THIS WITH THE LATEST MACRIUM REFLECT 8 HOME TRIAL ON MY PC. IT WORKED WITH OUT ANY ISSUES!!!!!
I went from 250gb thinking it was enough for my boot drive, but it started stuttering. Went to 2tb now. It's smooth like butter.
[As of 2-12-2024]
That is awesome! Glad it worked out.
Worked like a charm on my HP Envy Desktop. Took around an hour to clone, but as someone else said it depends on how full the drive to be cloned is.
Thank you for sharing this great tutorial!! Made my swap very easy!
Thank you!! This means a lot!! By the way, how is the new SSD working? I hope everything went smoothly?
Amazing tutorial. 20 years a tech and I never tried cloning system partition that worked.
Normally I try to get an adapter to sata, but for the NVME ssd it's hard to find, now I found this tutorial and wauw perfect, even without opening the laptop I can get a complete m2 nvme ssd copy. Many great thanks very good understandable and I'm running the software at the moment, takes some tim but it is working , thank you for this
Glad the video was helpful, but have you swap the SSD yet?
I don't know a lot about computers, and i was still able to successfully clone and add a new ssd drive thanks to the video. Amazing instructions.
Really glad the video was helpful. 😊
Just upgraded my SSD and thanks to the easy instructions in this video, it was seamless!
Typing this from my freshly cloned SSD following these steps and was surprised I only had to watch about 1/3rd of the video to get all the info I needed. Thank you sir.
Later this year I will be upgrading to a faster SSD with more storage and will come back to this video for its proper cloning process. I've already watched it once and it seems pretty easy/straightforward
Very well presented. I was able to clone and upgrade to a larger drive on the first try with no anxiety. Everything worked exactly as you demonstrated. Thank you for making the video.
Followed this comprehensive tutorial exactly and upgraded my laptop to 2tb perfectly. Thank you so much!
That's sounds awesome, glad the video was helpful.
Excellent video! Thank you!! Really helped with navigating the process for a first-timer! I did have a bit of confusion over the Error Code 9 issue, which would have been nice in the video as it seems to be quite common. The resolution for me was to switch off all of my Anti-Virus software.
Big Ups!
Thank you for this guide. I'm a newbie and I follow your step by step, and I successfully upgraded my Asus TUF from 256gb to 1tb. Greetings and salutations btw from the Philippines.
I just ordered my 1 tb nvme ssd and enclosure and will do the clone as per your video. Thank you for shaming your knowledge sir. Very greatly appreciated.
I hope the clone goes smoothly and you get everything working correctly, please let me know!!
Just followed you step by step with my replacement m.2 (added second one to mobo and will use original as extra storage). Currently cloning a lot of data. Thank you so much for your clarity of instruction and helpful adlibs of information for slightly differing situations. So helpful
I spoke too soon haha. I did it and booted to the new drive i had cloned the older drive to, it showed as C drive, so I cleaned the old drive all was good. now when i reboot I have a blue screen 0xc000000e error and unable to boot to windows :( just tried to repair windows didn't work, trying to reinstall windows and now it's saying I can't reinstall on the primary partition because it is using a GPT as opposed to MBR (for win10). Think I'm just gonna have to lose the data and fresh install. Nevermind
@@tom.bowen2212 I'm having the same issue. You ever figure it out? I'm looking into boot repair tools, but haven't found anything that works yet.
@@tom.bowen2212macrium has been doing this to me to, every other cloning app BUT this works 🤙🏽
@@tom.bowen2212 what did u have to do? currently having same issue
@@liamlambert2579 did you guys sort this? I am away to do the same thing, boot to the new cloned NVME then clean the old NVME, would you advise just leaving the old one as the boot drive and not clear it?
Thanks, Charlie this was a great help. I wanted to clone my old SSD from my old computer so I could use it in my new one which came with a small SSD. I used your info on how to repurpose my old SSD before I went back in your video on how to clone it. I worked a treat saved me from buying a new one.
I am super happy that the video was helpful! 😊 Glad I could help.
Hey, I followed everything you did step by step but my laptop in running into blue screen error reason showing INACCESSIBLE BOOT DRIVE. Really confused and frustrated it has been 6 hrs trying to figure this shit out. Can you help?
In my case, my machine has two NVMe slots.... when I clone and change them, the machine will always boot from the Primary one, that is, from the slot that always started... isn't it confusing?
Thanks in advance
Thanks for simple and effective explanation , used exact same way that you recommended and successfully done it. I faced error code 8 first 7 tries , realized either the connection cable was faulty or ssd was getting too hot connection was disturbed and lost . Then I had to delete files over 200 gb to from my 500gb ssd , then the transfer was faster and it finally completed the whole transfer without losing the connection . If any1 getting error code 8 , it means connection during the transfer is lost , either faulty cable or you unplugged it by mistake or even something else .
Interesting, I've seen a few comments about error code 8, this might be the reason why.