Cloning a Drive Without Formatting

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azoreonmusic

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I recently finished building my first PC, and I am now running into the problem of trying to get my files from my old laptop (completely dead, will not turn on) onto my new computer. I have removed the SSD from the laptop; it is a Samsung MZ-HPV5120 M.2 drive. I have been told I cannot use the drive on the new computer without formatting it and losing all my data. I tried multiple M.2 to USB adapters but none of them worked with my drive, I eventually called Samsung and they told me that there is no adapter for that drive currently on the market and I will have to clone the drive. I am confused on how I am supposed to do this. From the research I've done, it seems that drive cloning software will automatically select the drive it's running on as the source drive. I would need the old drive (unformatted) to be selected as the source drive and the new drive to be the destination drive. Any help I could get on this process would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
 
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1. Can we assume the PC you're using to communicate with this forum is the PC you've just built? So that you obviously have a bootable functional drive in that PC?

2. If so, can you internally install the Samsung M.2 in that PC?

3. It's not entirely clear what your ultimate objective is with respect to this M.2 drive. You indicate you want to salvage the data on the drive, however, you talk about a disk-cloning operation.

4. Assuming your newly-built PC currently contains a bootable, functional drive, is your objecitve to somehow utilize the M.2 as the new boot drive by cloning the contents of the current boot drive to the M.2?

5. Or, if possible, somehow move/copy data to the current boot drive and then clone the contents of that...
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1. Can we assume the PC you're using to communicate with this forum is the PC you've just built? So that you obviously have a bootable functional drive in that PC?

2. If so, can you internally install the Samsung M.2 in that PC?

3. It's not entirely clear what your ultimate objective is with respect to this M.2 drive. You indicate you want to salvage the data on the drive, however, you talk about a disk-cloning operation.

4. Assuming your newly-built PC currently contains a bootable, functional drive, is your objecitve to somehow utilize the M.2 as the new boot drive by cloning the contents of the current boot drive to the M.2?

5. Or, if possible, somehow move/copy data to the current boot drive and then clone the contents of that drive to the installed M.2 SSD -assuming the disk-space capacity of the M.2 is sufficient to contain the total contents of the current boot drive? Is that your plan?

6. Or is your objective to clone the contents of the M.2 which I assume contains an OS and utilize that OS in the new computer?

Perhaps if you provide clear details of precisely what you want to accomplish we might have some suggestions for you. Provide the OSs involved, details as to the drives involved including their disk-space capacity and volume of data and whatever other info that would help us understand exactly what your objective(s) are.
 
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