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Morning (or evening) all!
The laptop I've got is just over 4 years old now and works perfectly, so I've finally taken the plunge to upgrade my 256GB Samsung P961 NVME SSD to a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus to improve lifespan and storage speed.
I've never in all my life cloned a drive before... I've heard Samsung's Data Migration software is good and since both drives are Samsung I'd imagine there would be no issue with using that software actually but I'm open to suggestions. I've bought an external enclosure to put the new SSD in so that I can clone the drive via USB, by the way.
My question is, how exactly does it work? I really just want to migrate the data onto the new drive without it creating a partition. In my head the cloning process will want me to create a partition that's 256GB so clone the drive exactly as it was on the old storage? I really just want it to remain as the C:\ drive... Is this possible to do? I imagine that cloning means I'll have all my programs, files, setup and drivers etc exactly as they were before changing SSD?
I'll be replacing the slow(er) internal 1TB SSHD with a 2TB Sata SSD too, but I think the migration on that would just be as simple as a drag and drop for that, as there are no system files on my D:\ drive. Just My documents, Pictures, Videos... All those folders that are setup by windows, so as long as the drive letter matches it should work the same yes?
Any help with this much appreciated. I'll have all the components by Friday but want to be prepared for the switch.
Thanks all!
The laptop I've got is just over 4 years old now and works perfectly, so I've finally taken the plunge to upgrade my 256GB Samsung P961 NVME SSD to a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus to improve lifespan and storage speed.
I've never in all my life cloned a drive before... I've heard Samsung's Data Migration software is good and since both drives are Samsung I'd imagine there would be no issue with using that software actually but I'm open to suggestions. I've bought an external enclosure to put the new SSD in so that I can clone the drive via USB, by the way.
My question is, how exactly does it work? I really just want to migrate the data onto the new drive without it creating a partition. In my head the cloning process will want me to create a partition that's 256GB so clone the drive exactly as it was on the old storage? I really just want it to remain as the C:\ drive... Is this possible to do? I imagine that cloning means I'll have all my programs, files, setup and drivers etc exactly as they were before changing SSD?
I'll be replacing the slow(er) internal 1TB SSHD with a 2TB Sata SSD too, but I think the migration on that would just be as simple as a drag and drop for that, as there are no system files on my D:\ drive. Just My documents, Pictures, Videos... All those folders that are setup by windows, so as long as the drive letter matches it should work the same yes?
Any help with this much appreciated. I'll have all the components by Friday but want to be prepared for the switch.
Thanks all!