Upgrading SSD in Asus GX501VS

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I just got an Asus GX501VS and I want to upgrade the SSD to 1TB.

I have found the drive - Samsung 960 EVO 1TB NVMe m.2 SSD - but my question is this:

How do I clone the OS from the existing SSD to the new SSD? Is there an adapter I can get to connect to the new SSD via USB so I can clone the new drive over and then remove the old drive and replace it with the new one?

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
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velocityg4
I couldn't find one. You could get an external USB 3.0 HDD. Clone to that. Install the new SSD. Boot off the USB HDD and clone it to the new SSD. Then use the USB HDD as a backup drive.

I know I've seen Thunderbolt to NVMe enclosures. But they cost a lot more than an external HDD.
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I couldn't find one. You could get an external USB 3.0 HDD. Clone to that. Install the new SSD. Boot off the USB HDD and clone it to the new SSD. Then use the USB HDD as a backup drive.

I know I've seen Thunderbolt to NVMe enclosures. But they cost a lot more than an external HDD.
 
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That sounds like a good solution - what do you use to clone?
 
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What you actually want to do is an Image, not a clone.
There's a difference.

So...
Obtain a USB drive of any type, large enough to hold the entire current C drive.
Macrium Reflect, and make an Image of the current C (all partitions), onto this USB drive.
Make a Macrium Reflect Rescue CD or USB.
Swap your drives around.
Boot from that Macrium Rescue CD
Tell it where the Image is, and what drive to apply it to, the new NVMe.
Go.
 
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