Lenovo Edge E580 upgrade question

[Magandroid]

A friend has a Lenovo E580 with a 500GB SATA HDD. He wants to upgrade to a m.2 PCIe SSD and make it the boot drive. The current SATA drive will eventually be used as a data drive.
We have since also discovered that it have to be an NVMe SSD which what the E580 uses. Possibly looking at the Kingston NV1 250 m.2 NVMe PCIe SSD.
My question is, can we install the NVMe SSD then clone the existing SATA drive with the OS to the new NVMe SSD without re-installing Windows 10 and all apps from scratch?
If yes, which is the best method or software to use for cloning.
Much appreciated.

 

[PatchTuesday]

@Magandroid Do you or your friend have an external drive with enough space for the clone + a usb stick for temporary use?

My solution would be to use Macrium, create a bootable USB drive and set it aside. Then use Macrium to create an image of the current hard drive to the external drive. Once all that is done, put the new NVme into the laptop and disconnect the old drive then boot from the Macrium usb, restore the image from the external on the new drive. Make sure windows boots and works fine then plug the old on back in and format it

Working with an image always gives you an option to restore even if both destination and original drives give issues

 

[Rickster]

Put the NVMe in along side the SSD, initialize it, install AOEMI Backupper, chose clone, select source and destination and click clone. Done.

Then change boot order in bios, change drive letters, confirm NVME is being used to boot and format other drive.

 

[Magandroid]

@Magandroid Do you or your friend have an external drive with enough space for the clone + a usb stick for temporary use?

My solution would be to use Macrium, create a bootable USB drive and set it aside. Then use Macrium to create an image of the current hard drive to the external drive. Once all that is done, put the new NVme into the laptop and disconnect the old drive then boot from the Macrium usb, restore the image from the external on the new drive. Make sure windows boots and works fine then plug the old on back in and format it

Working with an image always gives you an option to restore even if both destination and original drives give issues

Thanks for the advice @animehero, will definitely look into this option. Finding an external drives shouldn't be an issue.

 

[Magandroid]

Put the NVMe in along side the SSD, initialize it, install AOEMI Backupper, chose clone, select source and destination and click clone. Done.

Then change boot order in bios, change drive letters, confirm NVME is being used to boot and format other drive.

Great and thanks. That sounds easy enough. I assume the AOEMI Backupper software is installed on the current Windows 10 drive or should it run from a bootable disk/usb stick?

 

[Rickster]

Great and thanks. That sounds easy enough. I assume the AOEMI Backupper software is installed on the current Windows 10 drive or should it run from a bootable disk/usb stick?

Install it in windows, use the standard (free) version.

Make sure to disconnect from the internet before doing the clone (to avoid file changes and such) and dont use the PC once cloning.

 

[Magandroid]

Install it in windows, use the standard (free) version.

Make sure to disconnect from the internet before doing the clone (to avoid file changes and such) and dont use the PC once cloning.

Will do and thanks for the advice. Much appreciated.