Best way to clone an M.2 SSD to another M.2 SSD?

[Memes]

My M.2 SSD might be faulty and I got a replacement so I can swap it out and I need to clone everything from my faulty SSD to the replacement SSD. Should I just copy all the files and transfer it over to my new SSD or theres a software thats recommended for it? Would be using a SSD enclosure of course

[Lord Flashheart]

Macrium Reflect. It is free.

[Memes]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Mamba Bajamba:

Macrium Reflect. It is free.

Is it simple like which drive do you want to clone to an all?

[Lord Flashheart]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Memes:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Mamba Bajamba:

Macrium Reflect. It is free.

Is it simple like which drive do you want to clone to an all?

Various options. Try it and google for instructions.

[Tristan]

look Here first thing i found on google with pictures

https://www.easeus.com/backup-utility/clone-m2-ssd-to-larger-m2-ssd.html

[Memes]

Will do thanks for the suggestions

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Also if both drives are the same model and size, within the clone software make sure the source drive is the one with data on it. And that the target drive is the new blank one. Clone entire disk, not partition, to ensure it captures and clones the mbr, all partitions, boot sector, etc.

Once clone is complete, shutdown, remove old ssd, boot to new ssd.

[Memes]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Bad 💀 Motha:

Also if both drives are the same model and size, within the clone software make sure the source drive is the one with data on it. And that the target drive is the new blank one. Clone entire disk, not partition, to ensure it captures and clones the mbr, all partitions, boot sector, etc.

Once clone is complete, shutdown, remove old ssd, boot to new ssd.

In marcium I'm in the Clone menu and the new SSD has a "Delete existing partition". Do I need to delete it? I'm transfering my old SSD over to the new one and make it a boot drive as well.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

No, shouldn't need to do that, especially if the target drive is already blank as they ship unformatted already.

Source = old ssd
Target = new ssd

Select an "entire disk" clone.

[Memes]

I formatted before cloning but I just deleted. Cloned everything over and the SSD seems fine.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The clone process will copy everything from source drive. An exact clone; mbr, boot sector, any partitions and how the drive volume/partitions were formatted. So yea the target drive should need zero prep in order to start/complete the clone process.