Spec me a clone app, ta.

[FlyingFish]

Hi, I'm looking to upgrade the m.2 drive in my laptop as it's only 256Gb and nearly full.
But the motherboard only has one drive slot.

So after a bit of googling, it would seem I need to plug in an external drive, (which I've got) clone the laptop drive to the external drive. Create a bootable USB stick, install the new drive and then boot from the USB stick to then copy the clone from the external drive to my newly installed drive.

Does all this sound about right?
And can anyone recommend a program to do all this for me?

The current drive is partitioned C & D partitions, it may also have a factory recovery partition etc. I take it all this will be cloned with no issue?

It's been a long time since I've needed to clone a drive, and I've not done it this way on a laptop before

Thanks

 

[FlyingFish]

Thanks for that, I've installed the program you recommend and managed to do a clone onto an external drive late last night.
I've got to create a recovery USB stick yet, and hopefully my new drive will arrive in the post today.

 

[FlyingFish]

So it went ok, sort of.

The Macrium USB bootable program did the job, it took a few minutes to navigate to find the right option to restore from my clone backup. And took over an hour to restore.

Windows didn't boot after several attempts, (went into restart loop). But it did eventually sort itself out, finally booted into desktop and announced it had uninstalled some updates that stopped it from booting

So it looks like everything is good, cheers.