Anyone have a good tutorial on migrating an os from an SSD to an M.2?

3 years ago by books to c/techsupport

As the title suggests, I've got an old 500gb SSD running my main OS on my desktop, and I just purchased a 2tb m2 drive and want to migrate over without a big headache.

Does anyone have any guides that they recommend to do this? I haven't tried to migrate an OS in probably a decade, I just usually do a fresh install, but I no longer want to do that as my time/files are worth more to me now.

Thanks!

Neon 4 points 3 years ago

honestly? fresh install is probably the best Option

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elscallr 4 points 3 years ago

Just don't bother migrating the OS. Migrate personal files, do a clean install of the OS. It takes like 10 minutes these days to install an operating system.

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mrpibb 3 points 3 years ago

Make a live bootable usb of https://clonezilla.org/

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PlantJam 1 point 3 years ago

This is what I used for a similar switch as OP and it worked well.

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Tarquinn2049 3 points 3 years ago

Most important thing is when the clone is done and both drives are set to be the main boot drive, make sure to physically disconnect one before the computer tries to start the operating system with both in there. The problem that creates is also solvable, but it's a bit of a hassle.

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Burnyoureyes 2 points 3 years ago

I moved from an HDD to an M.2 SSD recently. It was very easy: I literally just cloned the drive. Haven't had any issues.

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