How to migrate Windows 11 from an old SSD to a new NVMe SSD without reinstalling
Julian Horsey at Geeky Gadgets walks through moving a working Windows 11 install from an older SATA SSD to an NVMe drive by cloning the disk instead of reinstalling.
Executive Summary
Julian Horsey at Geeky Gadgets walks through moving a working Windows 11 install from an older SATA SSD to an NVMe drive by cloning the disk instead of reinstalling. The point he keeps returning to is that Windows does not live in one partition. The EFI System Partition and the Windows Recovery Environment have to come along too, so a full-disk clone is safer than copying C: alone.
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