Windows 10: Cloning drive from one laptop onto another laptop

I have recently gotten a new laptop with only one nvme slot.I wanted to upgrade the storage to a larger capacity and only have another laptop with 2 slots, 1 occupied.The plan is to have the new ssd going into the new laptop and the old ssd into the free slot of the other and cloning the drive. The question is, can I run those 2 drives on the other laptop safely as both drives are boot drives, one with windows 10 and another with windows 11 and to clone it?

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Cloning a hard drive from one laptop to a new laptop

Are you referring to a system drive, as in cloning a system drive from your previous laptop to your new laptop so that your new laptop will have the same OS and installed programs? If this is the case, you're going to run into major problems, as in it probably
won't work, not only because of the Windows license, but also because the old drive is set up to run on your old laptop, not the new one.

Cloning a system drive normally refers to either cloning for a backup, or cloning a system drive to a new drive that is going to go into the same laptop, like if you are upgrading to an SSD or upgrading to a larger size drive.

 

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Cloning a hard drive from one laptop to a new laptop

I have read a lot about cloning from one hard drive to another one, but if anyone has any suggestions, that would be great!

MY MAIN question, is how to connect the two computers. Is it as easy as a cable with USB's on either end (I have read this may not work), or do I need a USB transfer cable.

I have a docking station for cloning, but I would rather not take out a hardrive from a brand new laptop if there are other possiblities.