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Question

Anyone make a usb adapter for this SSD?

Apr 7, 2019 6:53AM PDT

I need an adapter that will convert this SSD to USB External. the SSD is:
WD Blue 3D NAND 500GB PC SSD - SATA III 6 Gb/s, M.2 2280 . Need an adapter that will work for this SSD. Appreciate any help you might have. Please show part number and source for one.
Thanks

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Do not understand
Apr 8, 2019 1:34PM PDT

"Why didn't you install EaseUS software to your working Windows and run it from there"

I am sorry, but I do not understand the above statement. After I remove the "windows" ssd, and replace it with the new SSD I do not have windows to boot with. Am I missing something here?

Thanks,
glenn

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Yes. The step.
Apr 8, 2019 1:59PM PDT

Post was last edited on April 8, 2019 2:00 PM PDT

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How to boot
Apr 8, 2019 4:28PM PDT

Yes, but how do I boot the computer after I make the swap with no windows on the boot drive? I cannot clone to the external without an adapter of some sort. I am confused. (as usual)
Thanks,
glenn

In the laptop example, they are using an adapter. I cloned one of those drives, thinking tthat was what was in my computer. When I opened the computer, I discovered the m.2 2280.

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Let's read it again.
Apr 8, 2019 4:38PM PDT
https://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/clone-resource/replace-laptop-hdd-with-an-ssd.html

We install their software in the working windows and clone from internal to external.

Once we have the clone job done we pull out the internal and replace it with our new drive. If it doesn't boot then the clone software is no good.

To make sure I was following along I went ahead and installed their demo and it runs from my installed Windows. Never need to make another boot drive.

I can only guess you didn't pay them their $19.50?
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I bought the software
Apr 8, 2019 4:52PM PDT

I bought the software and have used it before. But you have to have a way to get to the new SSD.

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Odd. Here
Apr 8, 2019 6:42PM PDT

Here I just installed it to the old SSD and then cloned, swap and done.

I believe there must be something lost in translation here. I've supplied the link for the method that is 99.99% similar to another method we use but here we are with you trying to boot from some USB stick or Win PE and not using the method noted by Easeus in the link I've supplied many times.

As long as you keep trying it in new ways then I don't think you'll get it done.

Read https://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/clone-resource/replace-laptop-hdd-with-an-ssd.html again.

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Yes but..
Apr 9, 2019 6:49AM PDT

The example I read was in a laptop that was cloning a 2.5 ssd from laptop to external. This was using an adapter to the 2.5 ssd and the cloned 2.5 ssd was then swappable into the laptop.
If my computer was using a 2.5 ssd, I would be home free; I already cloned a 2.5 ssd before I opened the computer and discovered it used an M.2 2280.

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You seem close but are not telling all.
Apr 9, 2019 7:59AM PDT

1. Sorry but I took the additional step to verify that Easeus's clone app would install in Windows and started a clone job. I will not spend 20 bucks to actually do this but hey it proved to me that the instructions look OK but I see you stuck on the USB boot stick method.

If you can't try this, then maybe have a shop do the work for you.

Again, read and try it Easeus's way at https://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/clone-resource/replace-laptop-hdd-with-an-ssd.html

You bought the USB to M.2 adapter which I never heard if it works in Windows. We know it doesn't in WinPE so that's dead end. This is why the article is the one to use if your USB to M.2 works in Windows. If the USB M.2 does not work in Windows (forget WinPE!) then you have other issues to work.

2. "Does not seem possible." "I already cloned a 2.5 ssd..."
While your details are missing about how you did that, why didn't you continue by installing the new M.2 and cloning from that 2.5 SSD back to the internal?

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Seem close
Apr 9, 2019 8:11AM PDT

"Does not seem possible." "I already cloned a 2.5 ssd..."
While your details are missing about how you did that, why didn't you continue by installing the new M.2 and cloning from that 2.5 SSD back to the internal?"

I used an adapter (usb to 2.5ssd) and cloned the 2.5ssd from the internal m.2 in the computer. I would clone from 2.5ssd to the new m.2 if I had a method to boot the computer with the new m.2 in the computer.

Sorry, I have an appt. to go to for a while.
Thanks for response.

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if I had a method to boot the computer with the new m.2 in
Apr 9, 2019 8:25AM PDT

" if I had a method to boot the computer with the new m.2 in the computer. "

When you have a successful clone, the target drive is placed in the boot location of the PC (in your laptop it's the M.2 slot) and you turn it on and it boots.

If there is some error message at this step, I can't find it.

I worry that you are trying to boot that USB M.2 adapter which is an absolute dead end. As in, no way that would work.

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method to boot the computer with the new m.2 in
Apr 9, 2019 8:54AM PDT

This computer is actually a desktop. So what I am trying to do is plug the completed clone into a usb slot, replace the small ssd with the new larger ssd (m.2). Then, I need a bootable usb stick with the clone software on it. Then set the boot to boot from the usb.
(I could wait until it boots with the clone software on it and then plug in the "source" into a usb slot.)

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I see we've repeated the advice a few times.
Apr 9, 2019 9:44AM PDT

It appears you are stuck on methods that don't work. Time to read about other methods. You've so close to getting it done but keep trying things that don't work. You'll get there someday.

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Let's talk about "transferring programs."
Apr 9, 2019 10:35AM PDT

No. Just no. Since about 1995 programs rarely transfer. There have been attempts at this like "PCMover" but they fail too often to write they work.

I would have cloned the drive with the tools we use weekly here. But you went down a very odd path with WinPE and appear to be trying to boot the cloned drive on USB. Both these are dead ends that will only end badly.

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Transfer
Apr 9, 2019 10:40AM PDT

I have in the past used EaseUS PCTrans and had pretty good luck transferring some of the programs.

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Exactly. "some of the programs."
Apr 9, 2019 12:39PM PDT

When folk ask to transfer programs they are usually upset that some of the programs don't move. More often than not, it's their old Microsoft Office apps.

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Thanks for originals
Apr 9, 2019 2:35PM PDT

I still have some "originals" on disk, like quicken, Microsoft office etc. Thank goodness. Some problems will probably be downloaded software that I paid for. But in the past, I have pretty good luck with companies because I keep a file of "Key Codes".