I need your help:
I bought myself a new laptop (Huawei Matebook D 14 "- Ryzen - Win 10), which contains a" slow "256 GB SSD - M.2 M - Key.
Now I have a new, larger (500 GB) and supposedly faster SSD - M.2 M-Key NVMe (SanDisk Extreme Pro) increased and wonder how I clone / transfer the content of my previous hard drive best and most importantly can.
In the network I find umpteen instructions and programs, but I do not know which is the right / best.
Previous problems:
The laptop only has this one hard drive connection, so that internally no two hard drives can be connected simultaneously.
An adapter solution also seems to be missing as all USB adapters are not designed for the M-Key.
alternatives:
External USB 3.0 hard drives (HDD) are available, but (still) filled
USB to SATA adapter is available, but helps in this case a little further
An additional, final question:
Further tips and hints, regarding initialization of the new SSD, further preparations (boot-USB-stick, programs for Win10, changes in the BIOS or similar systems) or the like, I also like to receive.
There's M-Key Adpater for M2 NVMe disks. Are comparatively quite your ~ 40 euro. So you could leave your old record installed, then with Acronis or similar. Program, put your old one on the new clone and the new one afterwards. That should work so without problems.
Solution: use a backup software and put a cloned image of the SSD on an external disk, or a NAS. Then you can with a live system (which should provide the backup software / create) on the newly installed SSD backup image again.
Have already successfully transferred a few times with Paragon Backup & Recovery. Nullo Problemo.
Can I, after the expansion of the existing SSD and the installation of the new, simply boot over the (USB connected) external HDD Windows?
I have to probably still initialize the new SSD, and this is only with Windows, or (I think of BIOS)?
No. You do that with the help of a boot disk. For system recovery, any backup solution should be able to do such a thing
