@@gatesroyale Same. I'm in Canada and only the 512 option is available here. That's what I bought and a week later my drive is almost full. So I'll buy a 2tb ssd eventually, but then I'll have an extra 512 that I have no use for. 😪
You really don’t necessarily need to remove to both drives if you don’t have 2 enclosures. Install everything on your legion then use this software to clone it to the new drive connected to it this way is also faster
i just upgraded my legion go by myself and i haven't done anything like this ever. so i was kinds scared of breaking someting. but i did it, thanks to this video. unfortunatly i did not find a 2242. but i did find a 2230. so i had to buy a extender for it aswell. but everything works. now to find out witch games i want to instal on it. ive been playing cyberpunk 2077 on it for the past week. and i love that it can play it. even though it is on low settings. but still. pretty awesome. as a truckdriver i am away from home alot. so i cant really play on my pc. this lenovo legion go is one of my best purchases i did. also, i live in the netherlands and we don't have any micro centers here. so i had to do it myself. also my to go tech company did not want to do it for me, even they said is was to risky.
@@intelligence6900 it is like a plastic thing to make the 2230 longer. In this case to the length of the 2242. To make it fit in place. Just google M.2 extender bracket
This may be one of the most clear and easy to follow tutorial videos I’ve ever seen on RU-vid. Please, more of this! I used to live near a Microcenter, please come to Austin, TX! Lower competition since our Fry’s closed. :) #iwantamicrocenternearme
Picked mine up today, and went with the 2 TB option since it was cheaper than getting the 512 and doing it myself . It's an amazing device, just a heads up to put the Software keyboard option in the taskbar for easier access to it.
I was wondering hve you had any problem ? I mean I know that the lgo has recently been in the market... I love the big screen and the characteristics, but should I go for the ally or Legion go ?
@@aliceweiss6711 I don't have an Ally, so I really can't compare the 2. The Legion Go , I haven't had any problems with it as of yet. Check the reviews to decide which one fits best for you. If you're into D-I-Y you could buy the cheapest Steam Deck and do the 2TB SSD Upgrade , and replace the Sticks with Hall Effect Kit, and put Windows on it for about $100-$200 cheaper than either the Go or the Ally, and have comparable performance, but the SteamDeck is the least powerful of the 3
@@aliceweiss6711they have the same processor so the performance is literally almost the same. It’s just the screen resolution, size and frame rate are different. Also the legion go has a built in stand and removable controllers. Those are the few reasons why I went with the legion go. I wish I went with the 2TB though because man did I fill the 512gb so quick.
@@Cemruto There is no room inside for a 2280 like the rog ally. The only way to fit a 2280 inside the legion go would be cutting a hole in the backplate basically destroying the device... if you're going to do that, just get an external SSD.
@@ViXoZuDo You might be correct, we'll have to see if someone comes up with something. It really depends on how much clearance there is between the back panel and the battery. If you could fit a right-angled m.2 extender, then in theory could fit a 2280. But we just don't know yet. Or maybe someone will start selling a backplate that is 2mm thicker and allows for the m.2 extension. We'll see. The reason we might want this over an external NVME, is because of a couple of reasons. 1-portability is better. 2-eGPU support would rely on the USB4 slot as it only has one.
Its nice that they offer this and show how. But it feels a step backwards from the steam deck image download, and the rog auto cloud download for a new image.
I just followed these steps and it was very easy, thanks for such a detailed video. I bought 2 USB-C enclosures to do the job and managed to clone the full 512GB SSD in 44 minutes. Including the clone, it took just over an hour to do it.
I would LOVE a MicroCentwr near me in South Korea. It would do so well here. Possibly also consider international shipping. I was able to buy the upgraded legion go from you guys I would, and then have it shipped to South Korea.
Thank you for making this video. I look forward to purchasing and owning this amazing handheld pc❤ Im sad there's no Micro Center store in Puerto Rico 😢 We have a best buy at least. The videos i've seen of the MicroCenter stores make it look like the adult version of Toyrs r Us.
1. Man comes in. 2. Gives clear service and safety instructions for opening device and removing the SSD. 3.teaches you how to clone your disk without jumping any steps. 4.shows how to put back the device in tells you why you should use provided stickers. 5.shows the device working again. 6.shits on call of duty on goes out. 10/10 video it's a masterpiece.
I found a legit 2tb micro sd and i already bought the Legion go with 2tb ssd from micro Center so i have 4tb! And boy it's hella fast, I test it against my friends legion go 512 gb by conparing game loads and other things and boy what a difference.
@The0Advent you can also buy a 1tb SD card at Micro center and see if they will clone it to 2tb! I hear that is possible but wasn't aware of it before I bought my 2tb sd card.
Thanks for the Macrium tips, very helpful. You can do it with one USB drive though. I just connected my new drive directly to the legion go, installed macrium on there, and cloned it. Took 12 minutes.
I am not close to Micro Center in Tustin, so I contacted Micro center through online chat and was informed that they would not build a 2 tb Legion Go and send it to me. I was informed even if I came into the shop in Tustin, they could not guarantee that they would build it.
this seems more painful than what it was for the Rog Ally.... is running games off a 1TB micro sd card a bad idea? Obviously they won't run as fast, but the sd card could be damaged by overheating too much
well! I am gonna replace new ssd 2tb for legion go and your instructions are super clear :D thanks. but one thing we can clone to 2Tb ssd on legion go :))
Thanks so much for this video, but wouldn't it be so much easier to just leave 512gb SSD inside the Legion Go and just do the cloning with just one m.2 enclosure(2TB) connected to it? #iwantamicrocenternearme
I installed a 2TB drive, using a blank USB-key to image it(after grabbing drivers from the original windows folder) I cant wait for 4TB drives. I find that even the low powered and limited driver support Steamdeck runs out of space for me at 2.5TB, i feel like 3.5TB on the Legion GO will be even more limiting because even more games run well on it, and being windows(for now) its no hassle to install non steam games.
I don’t know how well it will work, but my suggestion would be to install the cloning software on your legion and connect the new hard drive using your adapter to Legion and then clone it. And then you can just directly add the new 2 TB drive inside
Make two partitions instead of one big one, one for Windows, one for the games, because if you ever need to reimage/reinstall Windows you'll still have all games installed on the Partition, no need to download them again, just add the steamlibrary an that partition to steam and your done.
LOL I made the EXACT same mistake @5:45. The first go around I had skipped through parts of the video thinking I knew better. When I put it all together I noticed my HDD space was only 512GB!! Couldn't move it, and didn't want to pay $50 to a third party to fix it... so I Had to reopen the case, take the drive out, and start all over!
This a huge issue when the rog ally just does everything through cloud recovery I have used it many times to fix issues they better release a recovery image very quickly or they will have major issues this cloning method isn’t good what if your original image is messed up cloning it will clone the issues
Cloud recovery is horrible 😢! What if the cloud is down and lose all your data? I never trust cloud recovery. If the cloning image is messed up, it can be recloned
just got my 512gb version tried to install games free from xbox pass. my sd card wont show as an option on installation path why is that? i thought i could use sd card on games
I would like to come and see you to help me to upgrade mine. When I went to micro center with my 1TB legion I wanted to upgrade to 2 TB but the cost was 300 dollars which I found too much…
There was no way I could be careful with the removing of the ssd from the sleeve in the legion go as there were no joining lines or anything. I ended up using tweezers to rip the thing down on side to get the ssd out of it. I swear Lenovo no not want anyone doing this. I'm wondering is the sleeve really needed as the Asus rog doesn't have one and as far as I know neither does the Steam deck.
First of all thank you for the video and the explanation! Instead of selecting "shrink or extend to fill the target disk" option on the cloning proces, is it ok if I use the other option and create a new independent partition with the rest of the new space? I would like to have a partition independent from the OS to store data.
Honestly you can't really find a fast m.2 SSD for under 140 so it really makes no sense to not have it upgraded at micro center for 100 extra for the 2tb but great video regardless
Be careful getting one of these "upgraded" drives. They are replacing Western Digital drives with junk. They're dying left and right and Lenovo warranty doesn't cover the drive since they are replacing the 512GB drives with 1TB and 2TB with lesser quality drives. I have a 1TB version from Microcenter. Mine died after 3 months and Lenovo will charge for the repair to remove the 1TB drive and put a 512 back in.
I also got the upgraded one couple months ago and It died on me last night while playing Starfield. So i have to drive 45 mins to a Micro center to see if they can fix it for me since i have their warranty. This is the second upgraded Go in my house that has randomly died thanks to Micro center putting trash drives in these.
there seriously needs to be a micro center in new york state we desperately need one here we have nothing here for computer parts at all except the typical best buy and walmart but we need much more of a selection please come to new york #iwantamicrocenternearme
I have a question about the micro SD cards. I did not experience this issue on my Steam Deck, but for some reason when installing games from Steam it takes a really long time to allocate space on the drive. I am using a fast 190mb micro sd card. I don't get it. Any thoughts?
Shame you guys don't have a store in Brandon Florida. I'm surprised those 22x42 drives don't have a higher capacity since you can get 22x30s with 2TB also. I might get the Go over a SteamDeck ever tho I can mod the Deck with 32GB of RAM.
Is that VisionTek 2TB M.2 2242 NVME DLX4 PCIe Gen4 x4-901563 the same drive put into the ones you are selling? (up to 5200 MB/s reads and up to 4775 MB/s writes).