There are a number of free cloning solutions out there. If you have a NVMe to USB adapter you can easily clone your drive. I have the following one and it works perfectly. It also comes with a free version of Acronis True Image for cloning your drive:
Since you have optane you don't need any adapter. Just disable optane acceleration with Intel RST, put the new drive in, and then clone the 3.5" boot drive onto the new NVME. That's assuming there's enough space on the new drive: the 3.5" HDD came with 2TB options, and you indicated in your other post you're looking at a 1TB nvme.
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There are a number of free cloning solutions out there. If you have a NVMe to USB adapter you can easily clone your drive. I have the following one and it works perfectly. It also comes with a free version of Acronis True Image for cloning your drive:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07K4TZQ7D/
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September 30th, 2020 20:00
Since you have optane you don't need any adapter. Just disable optane acceleration with Intel RST, put the new drive in, and then clone the 3.5" boot drive onto the new NVME. That's assuming there's enough space on the new drive: the 3.5" HDD came with 2TB options, and you indicated in your other post you're looking at a 1TB nvme.