Clone M.2 to SATA HD and back to M.2
I have a Gigabyte Laptop with a Samsung M.2 drive. For the life of me, I can not update windows 10 to build 1903 or beyond. It fails on the 2nd boot every time and then uninstalls the update. I've tried to do a factory restore of the computer and update everything before adding anything else to the computer and it's still a no go. So my question is this. I only have 1 M.2 port on the laptop plus a SATA port for a 2.5 drive. Can I use True Image 2021 to clone my current M.2 onto the larger SATA drive so I can update windows and then clone it back to the an M.2? I've tried restoring the computer to a SATA drive and it updates just fine. I don't want to lose all my data and start over with everything so I want to clone, update, clone back. I can only find info on cloning from a SATA SSD to an M.2 but not the reverse. I don't want to buy the software unless this function is supported. Thanks for your help.


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Thanks for your help Steve. I was able to clone my M.2 to a SATA HDD, upgrade my windows, and then clone back to my M.2. There is apparently an issue with Windows/Gigabyte/M.2 NVMe drives (not samsung specific). It was a long drawn out process for at least it did what I needed it to do. Thanks for your help.
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