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 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 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 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 is the best tech instructional video I have seen on RU-vid, 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 ?
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
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 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! 👍
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
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 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 👍
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.
@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?
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.
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 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! 😂
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 RU-vid video or article guide out there.
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.
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
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.
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!!!!
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. 😊
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.
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
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
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!!
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
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 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!
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! 👍👍👍👍👍
Thanks Charlie this was very useful, last time I cloned a drive was a couple of years ago and I couldn't remember which software I used, but this pushed me in the right direction lol. Fantastic tutorial, thank you
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.
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.
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.
I thought I pretty much knew most of this already, but watched your video all the way through just to make sure I was on the right track. You helpfully reminded me about a few shortcuts and procedures that I'd forgotten. Can't wait to get a faster bigger upgrade...! Thanks for the guide.
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.
Many thanks for this video! First time I've cloned and replaced an NVMe SSD and it all went perfectly - the only thing I had to do differently was disable BitLocker encryption first. Very good explanation and a really good product to make the cloning process easier. I also used the exact same SSD enclosure which had everything included in the box! Thank you.
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...
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!
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.
Hello, I just want to thank you very much, I've NEVER upgraded or even OPENED my PC before in my life, and even so, I was able to do everything within an hour with zero issues following your tutorial and tips, thank you SO immensely much, Tech Guy Charlie!!
My man you are amazing! I've been very scared to perform this for a long time and did not know where to start, thank you for making this process step by step and easy to follow!
This is a great video. I had no idea I could reuse the old SSD as a usb. This is perfect as I use a USB to back up games. When I upload recent game files to the USB, it takes forever. Now I can move it fast! Thank you so much!
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!
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
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]
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.
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.
Absolutely outstanding video. It was just what I needed to replace a 125GB SSD in a SFF Desktop I use at water ski competitions to a 500GB SSD. Extremely lucid and detailed presentation. I was going to use Acronis because I bought a Crucial SSD. But then I found out that to run the Crucial version of Acronis, I had to have a Crucial SSD in the machine which made it worthless unless I upgraded to the non-Crucial version and pay for it. Macrium was very easy to use. Thank you.
Thank you so much ! Worked liked a charm. If you are doing this on PC with multiple nvmes you will need to go into your bios and give your new drive boot priority. I just simply disabled the other drive as a boot option.
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?
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!
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?
Dude thanks a lot for this updated video, I just cloned my 256Gb to 2TB NVMe SSD with the above steps and the whole process was a breeze except my gaming laptop took like 1:54 hrs to clone 😥
Great tutorial, I saw other similar videos but they were not as helpful as this one. By the way if you have a lot of external hard drives plugged into your desktop make sure to unplug them when you boot up for the first time after changing the NVMe (I found out the hard way because my PC was in a booting loop). Tech Guy you got yourself a new subscriber.
Oh darn, I guess that might be the reason why I got a few comments saying their PC got stuck in a boot loop after swapping out the drive. But I am glad the video was helpful, welcome to the channel!
Looks straight forward and simple as a first time deskop owner looking to upgrade stuff. Cant wait to see how I manage to fuck this up and spend 4 hours troubleshooting and fixing shit till I get it to work lol thank you
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.
