This is a nice tutorial for one M2 slot devices indeed. Less know-how demanding is usage of M2 external drive enclosure and system disc cloning software like EaseUS Todo Backup (I cloned system drives with trial version plenty of times with zero issues) or Acronis (here I ran into some unexpected obstacles), then switch drives and at the end, you can use your old drive as an external M2 storage. Devices with 2 drive slots just clone and change boot order and that's it.
Love your videos and this one was super helpful! I used it a couple of days ago on a Zephyrus G14 2022 6800S to go from the stock (Micron?) 1TB to a 2TB Samsung 980 Pro and it *mostly* worked, but i had a weird issue. Firstly, it was different as I was doing device-device and not using images, as I had the new 2TB in a USB enclosure. Maybe if I'd used images my issue wouldn't have happened. Anyway.... Towards the end of the clone, it told me it needed to resize partition sda6 but that it would have to change it from FAT32 to FAT16 and gave me only 2 choices - OK or Cancel. Probably I should have selected Cancel but I didn't know if that would break EVERYTHING or what would happen, so I said OK. I also though sda6 was one of the partitions at the end - some Asus restore thing - and wouldn't hurt anytrhing, as I would always have the original 1TB SSD in the worst case. I have no idea why it was trying to resize any partition as I certainly didn;'t request that. Anyway I let it do its thing and once done, I swapped SSDs, putting the 2TB inside the laptop, and powered on. Everything seemed fine until I tried to shut down. It would just restart instead. I tried many times - shutdown would always rerstart. I was able to tempararoily fix this by turning off Enable Fast Startup in the power control panel, but this was not a real solution. I looked at my partitions and it turned out that clonezilla had actuallyresized my EFI partition from 260 to 200MB, and changed it from FAT32 to FAT16. I have no idea why, because this is at the styart oif the disk, not at the end like sda6. Anyway what I did was google how to fix EFI partitions, and what I ended up doing was following a guide and I built a windows recovery USB, rebooted with that, then used diskpart and bcdcopy to delete, recreate (as 260MB FAT32) the EFI partition, and copy the appropriate files to it. This worked, thankfully. All is working as it should now. Butr I don't know why clonezilla tried to mess with this partition at all. Anyway, thanks again for your videos!!
Can you tell me more about this option. I guess you will need some cloning software. I want to upgrade my surface Pro X with a larger SSD, but don't want to have to do a fresh install.
No, that's actually a great idea for the X16 which is unique in that it has 2 m.2 slots vs. most machines... I wanted to make this guide more agnostic for users with all laptops.
This is a nice tutorial for one M2 slot devices indeed. Less know-how demanding is usage of M2 external drive enclosure and system disc cloning software like EaseUS Todo Backup (I cloned system drives with trial version plenty of times with zero issues) or Acronis (here I ran into some unexpected obstacles), then switch drives and at the end, you can use your old drive as an external M2 storage. Devices with 2 drive slots just clone and change boot order and that's it.
Love your videos and this one was super helpful! I used it a couple of days ago on a Zephyrus G14 2022 6800S to go from the stock (Micron?) 1TB to a 2TB Samsung 980 Pro and it *mostly* worked, but i had a weird issue. Firstly, it was different as I was doing device-device and not using images, as I had the new 2TB in a USB enclosure. Maybe if I'd used images my issue wouldn't have happened. Anyway.... Towards the end of the clone, it told me it needed to resize partition sda6 but that it would have to change it from FAT32 to FAT16 and gave me only 2 choices - OK or Cancel. Probably I should have selected Cancel but I didn't know if that would break EVERYTHING or what would happen, so I said OK. I also though sda6 was one of the partitions at the end - some Asus restore thing - and wouldn't hurt anytrhing, as I would always have the original 1TB SSD in the worst case. I have no idea why it was trying to resize any partition as I certainly didn;'t request that. Anyway I let it do its thing and once done, I swapped SSDs, putting the 2TB inside the laptop, and powered on. Everything seemed fine until I tried to shut down. It would just restart instead. I tried many times - shutdown would always rerstart. I was able to tempararoily fix this by turning off Enable Fast Startup in the power control panel, but this was not a real solution. I looked at my partitions and it turned out that clonezilla had actuallyresized my EFI partition from 260 to 200MB, and changed it from FAT32 to FAT16. I have no idea why, because this is at the styart oif the disk, not at the end like sda6. Anyway what I did was google how to fix EFI partitions, and what I ended up doing was following a guide and I built a windows recovery USB, rebooted with that, then used diskpart and bcdcopy to delete, recreate (as 260MB FAT32) the EFI partition, and copy the appropriate files to it. This worked, thankfully. All is working as it should now. Butr I don't know why clonezilla tried to mess with this partition at all. Anyway, thanks again for your videos!!
Thanks, Worked great!
Gparded wouldn't boot all the way up. Gave error: error could not disable real-time clock events.
Any thoughts about this?
I got this same error. Did you get a fix for it? I can't seem to find one when searching for it.
Why not just macrium reflect and adjust the slider to fit the bigger SSD?
my surface encryption is on i don't know if this gonna work
Very creative way. Or you can buy a 10 dollar ssd reader and cloning the older ssd to the new one, swap the drive, and finished 🙂
Can you tell me more about this option. I guess you will need some cloning software. I want to upgrade my surface Pro X with a larger SSD, but don't want to have to do a fresh install.
@@StephenPaolicelli yes. You can use Macrium Reflect 8, it's free
@@giovannialfano5979 thanks I'll try it out. Do you know if it works with ARM based machines (surface Pro X).
Could've tagged flow x 16
So is there something stopping you from installing the second drive in the second SSD slot and cloning more directly?
No, that's actually a great idea for the X16 which is unique in that it has 2 m.2 slots vs. most machines... I wanted to make this guide more agnostic for users with all laptops.
not everyone has 2 SSD slots. everyone knows how to clone directly from windows but try to do that with a surface