Hello All,
My HP Laptop (model 15-eg0073cl) started warning me that my C drive was running out of space.
I wanted to replace that drive, an
Intel 512 GB PCIe? NVMe? M.2 SSD, with a
SAMSUNG 990 PRO Series - 2TB PCIe Gen4. X4 NVMe drive.
Since I had configured the Intel drive with partitions for both Windows 11 and Ubuntu Linux, I had my doubts about how to proceed.
I knew that Samsung offered a free software tool,
Samsung Magician;
https://www.samsung.com/us/memory-storage/magician-software/ , that claimed that it could move the contents of one drive to another but I thought that it only worked if both the original drive and the target drive were made by Samsung.
I learned that such was not the case. Samsung Magician allows a user to migrate up to 3 partitions from one drive to another using a GUI interface, Only the new drive (the Target) has to be made by Samsung
I inserted the new drive in a
Sabrent NVMe enclosure,
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Type-C-Tool-Free-Enclosure-EC-SNVE/dp/B08RVC6F9Y?th=1 I then used the provided USB-C cable to connect the laptop to the enclosure and launched Samsung Magician. After about 15 minutes, the cloning was completed.
Next I removed the 6 screws from the bottom of the laptop and pried off the back to gain access to the Intel NVMe drive. I swapped it without incident for the larger drive and then successfully booted up the laptop. Everything worked
Ralph Sutter
