I presume the answer is “yes I can” but I just want to make sure I’ve got the process right.

The 240GB SSD I’ve got my Windows 10 installation on just turned 5 years old, and from what I understand 5-6 years is where they start to reach the end of their lifespan. Also, between my Windows install and modern game sizes 240GB is pretty tiny and I haven’t been really been able to put much on it anyway.

The motherboard I upgraded to a year ago has two M.2 slots and I’m thinking of getting a 1TB NVMe drive and cloning my OS onto it. In 2022 I had trouble with faulty hardware corrupting Windows several times and during that time I made an AntiX boot device for troubleshooting that I’ve still got.

I assume the process would be

• Install M.2 drive
• Boot into AntiX
• Use the disk manager utility (can’t remember what it was called) to clone the contents of the SATA SSD onto the M.2 drive
• Open BIOS and change the boot drive to the M.2
• Boot to Windows

Would the M.2 drive be recognised as the new C: drive or will Windows get confused and give me trouble?