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Can I clone my Windows installation off my aging SATA SSD onto a new NVMe M.2 drive with a Linux boot device? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TheronGuard@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I presume the answer is "yes I can" but I just want to make sure I've got the process right.

The 240GB SSD I've got my Windows 10 installation on just turned 5 years old, and from what I understand 5-6 years is where they start to reach the end of their lifespan. Also, between my Windows install and modern game sizes 240GB is pretty tiny and I haven't been really been able to put much on it anyway.

The motherboard I upgraded to a year ago has two M.2 slots and I'm thinking of getting a 1TB NVMe drive and cloning my OS onto it. In 2022 I had trouble with faulty hardware corrupting Windows several times and during that time I made an AntiX boot device for troubleshooting that I've still got.

I assume the process would be

Install M.2 drive
Boot into AntiX
Use the disk manager utility (can't remember what it was called) to clone the contents of the SATA SSD onto the M.2 drive
Open BIOS and change the boot drive to the M.2
Boot to Windows

Would the M.2 drive be recognised as the new C: drive or will Windows get confused and give me trouble?

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[–] CubitOom 3 points 2 years ago

After you clone the drives, the easiest thing to do is just to unplug everything besides the new drive for the first boot. You can plug things back after.