SSD to Corsair MP510 960GB NVMe

For cloning hard drive partitions and everything related to it, I have on several occasions and successfully used the linux gui tool gparted. It does not explain every detail, but with a bit of background knowledge it can be very convenient and useful.

Using this and a few other things I pulled off several pretty cool things, including more complicated stuff like fixing boot loader issues, BIOS to UEFI boot conversions, increasing and shrinking partition size, keeping a valid Windows activation in the process, replacing HDD with SSD and so on. Stuff that is usually solved using a sledge hammer and much higher amounts of time.

I can highly recommend gparted and I trust this tool (and linux) a lot more than I trust some commercial offers trying to upsell on every chance they get.

For using gparted I usually download Fedora to a usb thumbdrive, then boot it and install the tool with this command: „sudo dnf install gparted“.

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