My new computer will be here next Thursday with a 1TB Solid State Drive, M.2 PCIe-NVMe, Opal (from the Lenovo web page). When it arrives the drive will have Windows 10 on it. My plan is to remove the drive from the computer, put it in a USB adapter that I can plug into my current laptop, then use GParted to delete the partition(s) and create new ext4 partitions for / and /home. Then I will copy everything from the / and /home partitions on my current laptop to the respective partitions on the new drive, make / partition bootable, and put the drive back in the computer.
Although I've never done this before, I assume it is doable. However, I need a USB adapter to put the new NVMe drive into, preferably by Thursday. I am guessing that such an adapter is not in stock anywhere locally, so I went online and found this one: https://www.newegg.com/p/0VN-006F-00039?Description=nvme%20enclosure&cm_re=nvme_enclosure-_-9SIA6V88SG2944-_-Product I am not sure that the above adapter is the correct one for my new drive, nor do I know if there might be a place to obtain such an adapter locally. And I also invite other suggestions regarding my grand scheme to port my current OS installation to the new computer. Any suggestions welcome! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
