I'm new at this and have a question. I have the Sabrent USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE hard drive adapter. I have an older Dell Inspiron that came with an M.2 2230 128gb drive. I want to upgrade to an M.2 2230 1 tb. I have cloned the existing drive to a SATA drive attached to the Sabrent. Might sound dumb but should I now be able to remove the old M.2, put in new M.2 and clone back from the SATA? Is there anything I need to do other than to make sure BIOS reflects the new, raw drive. Any help would be appreciated!
@irongatejim In theory, that should work, as long as the partition layout has remained intact so the Inspiron can boot properly. You might have to verify the BIOS/UEFI is aware of the new drive. I would recommend now erasing any of the drives until you know you can get booting to work. Sometimes OEM computers can be finicky about booting due to some UEFI settings like Secure Boot.
@Sabrent So I'd have to create a bootable USB drive in order to clone to the newly inserted m.2 2230 drive, I guess.
@irongatejim If using the adapter for that, yes. Cloning software will often have the option to make bootable media for the process.
