Transfering my W10 OS from my SATA SSD to my new M.2 SSD, best method?

[Tommygunn]

Hi,
Long time since I've been here so I'm somewhat rusty with various methods of this, that and the other.

I've just bought a Samsung 1TB M.2 SSD and I want to transfer/replicate my W10 OS and Games partitions, from my current SATA SSD, to my new M.2.

The problem I have, is that I don't have my W10 USB fob due to a recent house move, therefore, I'm looking to find a way to do a transfer/copy of all the data to the new drive while retaining full functionality of the OS and games.

So far, I have partitioned the new drive to similarly replicate the original drive, albeit simply 'OS' and 'Games'. I've done a simple copy and paste of the games partition (yet to see if that works), and I've attempted to do the same with the OS, however, it doesn't want to copy/paste some files out of the thousands and so prevents the OS from working when the new M2 is selected as the principle drive and it just reverts back to the BIOS options.

Any help much appreciated.

Below are a couple of screengrabs of my current drives.

Cheers,
Tom.

 

[Gabriel Pike]

It sounds like you should be using a drive cloning software to get to your objective. I have been using Paragon but there are many to choose from. eg. clonezilla, acronis, etc.

 

[Brickwizard]

You may find this easier [they do a free trial version]

Download ViceVersa PRO

www.tgrmn.com

 

[Tommygunn]

Thanks for the replies. I actually got it sorted with Macrium Reflect (for the transfer) and Minitool Wizard (for partitioning resizing), all worked out perfectly.

Cheers.