SSD Upgrade cloning

[lego_max]

Can i upgrade my OMEN with the Crucial MX500 1TB M.2 Type 2280 Internal SSD ( http://eu.crucial.com/eur/en/ct1000mx500ssd4 ) ( or a real NVMe drive with 2500mb/s writing and 3500mb/s reading speeds? ( example:  https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/ssd-970-evo-nvme-m-2-1tb-mz-v... ) and clone it easy without any problems? My conern is that i will lose other data on my SSD and that i have to find out myself what i am missing and that will probably lead into a wipe of everything and reinstall a clean windows 10. But that will void the warranty. 

Can you help me with this? Maybe with external software so i can clone it onto my HDD and after that clone it back to the new SSD? 

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

You have no warranty issues to worry about. Here is the Service manual:

Manual

Removal of the back cover and replacing upgrading the battery, hard drive, SSD and memory are authorized for the end user on this model, a breath of fresh air as it is not on so many models. 

Start on p. 37 and all procedures from there to p. 44 are authorized to the User. And you would not lose your warranty by doing a clean install but I understand why you want to keep your existing apps, settings, etc. 

The laptop can handle a SATA-3 M.2 like the Crucial you ask about but has a 256 NVME M.2 right now and you would not want to downgrade your performance. An NVME M.2 is what you want and they are only a few bucks extra so why get anything else? 

Your best bet for cloning is to perhaps make a partition on the included 1 TB 7200 rpm hard drive of 256 gigs or large enough to hold all the current contents of the SSD. You can make a Windows system image or  other kind of disk image, hold it on the hard drive, swap in the new larger M.2 NVME and then restore the contents of the image to the new disk. 

Doing a direct disk to disk clone of an NVME disk is not easy to do because there are not really external USB NVME adapters as there are with SATA disks. 

So you do the copy (clone) and restore in 2 steps instead of a single step. Still not hard to do. 

Post back with any other questions and please accept as solution if it is the info you needed. 

[lego_max]

Thanks for this infomation. This will help me out alot.

[Huffer]

If thats the case please accept as solution so others with the same issue can find it more easily. 

Don't hestitate to ask more questions.