Nobody want to spend time to reinstall windows and applications to upgrade HD NVME M2. Here is a mini guide to transfer the whole old (smaller) HD, using Clonezilla 20230426-lunar.
You need to buy NVME M2 usb enclosure. The new HD NVME M2 must equal or larger then the old one.
Preparation
Download Clonezilla iso (stable or alternative) from https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php and burn it into CD ROM.
Transfer HD from old to new
Make sure you plug your adapter to your notebook and your windows 11 in health condition.
- Insert your new HD NVME M2 into USB Enclosure and plug into your notebook.
- Restart your PC to notebook to start from CD, press windows + restart.
- After book, select preferred language.
- Choose keyboard layout or keep default keyboard layout.
- Then choose Start Clonezilla.
- Select device_device.
- Select Beginnner.
- Select your Source HD, (smaller size if upgrade to bigger size).
- Select Destination HD.
- Choose option -sfsck to skip checking/repairing source.
- Choose option -K0 to create exactly size of partition on destination HD like source.
- Choose option -p if you want decide to reboot or shutdown after transfer finish.
- Enter to continue transfer HD.
- Confirm your HD source by typing Y.
- Confirm your HD destination by typing Y.
- Wait until process transfer completed.
You can turn of your notebook, and replace your old one with a new one.
Post transfer
By default, your disk is encrypted by bitlocker. To resize your HD, yout need to disable encrypted during resizing/shrinking your HD.
Windows -> Settings Privacy & Security -> Device Encryption -> disable/off
Wait until windows 11 decrypt your HD.
You can use any free for home user, to resize your new HD. These are example for home user:
- Minitool Partition Wizard Free 12.7
- EaseUS Partition Master
- others your favorite tool
After resizing I recommended you do (run cmd as administrator):
- Disk C checking
> chkdsk c: /f
required to reboot windows 11 - System file check
> sfc /scannow - Run disk checking for others parititons
> chkdsk d: /f