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Before we get the way to clone M.2 SATA SSD to M.2 NVMe SSD in the Windows computer, let's learn about what these two M.2 SSDs are and why we clone the M.2 SSD from SATA to NVMe.
M.2 is a form factor and can be understood as a kind of SSD interface. M.2 SSD is 22 mm wide and 42/60/80 mm long. An M.2 SATA SSD is the drive that uses the SATA bus(the bus is the path on the motherboard used by the pc to transfer data from CPU to other components) and applies the AHCI protocol(the protocol is the rules controlling the data transmission). While the M.2 NVMe SSD adopts the PCIe bus mode and NVMe transfer protocol.
When it comes to the reason for cloning M.2 SATA SSD to M.2 NVMe SSD, the main one is usually that the latter M.2 SSD transfers data much faster than the former one. M.2 SATA SSD can transfer data in the speed of 600 MB/S while the M.2 NVMe SSD's protocol can reach up to about 4000MB/S.
Now, it's time for us to grasp the detailed steps about cloning M.2 SATA SSD to M.2 NVMe SSD.
Tips: The following way is also applied to clone SATA SSD to M.2 NVMe SSD.
Supplies:
Step 1: Connect the M.2 NVMe SSD to your Windows computer. You can install the M.2 SSD into the motherboard of your computer directly if your machine provides 2 slots for M.2 SSD. Otherwise, you need to build the connection between the computer and M.2 NVMe SSD with the prepared NVMe USB to adapter.
Step 2: Initialize the connected M.2 NVMe SSD if it has not been recognized before. To do this, just access Disk Management and generally the Initialize Disk box of the M.2 SSD will be shown automatically. If it's not, you can right-click the M.2 SSD and manually choose the Initialize Disk option to initialize the SSD with GPT/MBR partition style. Then, right-click the unallocated space of the M.2 SSD to add volumes to it.
Step 1: Follow the installation wizard to easily install iSunshare CloneGo on your Windows computer step by step.
Step 2: Launch CloneGo and switch to the Disk Clone interface.
Step 3: Pick the M.2 SATA SSD to clone from the disk menu of Select a Source Disk option and also highlight the M.2 NVMe SSD in the Select a Target Disk option to save the cloned SATA SSD.
Step 4: Hit Start button and confirm the M.2 disk clone operation. Then the tool will format the target disk firstly and then begin cloning M.2 SATA SSD to M.2 NVMe SSD.
Step 5: The disk clone process will be ended up with a Tips pop-out.
To here, you have successfully cloned the M.2 SATA SSD. You can enter the PC setup program(UEFI/BIOS) to boot the computer from the M.2 NVMe SSD for enjoying the rapid running OS environment without any data loss.
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