When I do such things, I do not bother with adapters, even opening the laptop.
I simply boot the laptop to live Linux OS - Knoppix is my favorite, but any live linux bootable from USB stick is fine - Then I save (dd) the drive over the network to NAS or other other PC. Reading the disk and compressing the data is typically way slower than a wired network, so there is no speed advantage in using a dongle. the actual command would look like: dd if=/dev/sda | ssh user@computerName 'cat - > fileNameOnTheOtherPc' or if you want to compress before sending it over: dd if=/dev/sda | xz -c | ssh user@computerName 'cat - > fileNameOnTheOtherPc.xz' Obviously your NVMe device will show up as /dev/nvme..... not /dev/sda Maybe that can be an option too. Tomas On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 15:39 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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=nvm > e_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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
