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I bought a larger internal SSD for my laptop. How would I go about transferrring the data?
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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2024
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You can use
ddto transfer literally everything, like partitions, boot sector and filesystems over and then use gparted to grow the partitions. Boot any Linux live image to do it.No, this will not fixup the GPT partition table, so
partclone, integrated in clonezilla, is way easier.Otherwise yes,
ddandgdiskwork really well. But you can easily mess up and Clonezilla just worksGood to know.
Nice. I assume I'll need to transfer to an external drive first, and then transfer back to the new one?
Depends. If you have enough slots you can do it in one go. Otherwise you'll have to use an external drive.
You can buy an external drive case cheap and plug in the old one with USB-C. I have multiple from Inateck which cost ten bucks on Amazon.
It's an internal drive though.
If it's a 2.5" drive, get a drive case and make it external. If it's an m.2 chip, you can still get cases for those. I don't know how much they cost, but they exist. If it's soldered to the logic board, you're out of luck.
These are cases specifically to house internal drives.
Actually most cases are. Chances are good that even if you just buy any external drive that if you were to screw it open that it would have just a normal internal drive in there hooked up to an adapter.