Windows 10: Rookie at backing up - questions about cloning - using EaseUS

Newbie here and first post. I have a Dell Precision 5510 laptop with a 512 GB SSD running Windows 10. I'm also old, so please be patient*Smile. Up until a few months ago, when I bought EaseUS Todo Home, I had never properly backed up my computers. I'd make copies of files onto a portable drive, but never properly backed up the system, because I did not fully understand how to do it. So, I gave it a shot with EaseUS and I have successfully performed a couple of backups of my laptop. But, I really want to clone my SSD so I have a fully functioning spare disk in case my original takes a dump.

I may be wrong, but as I remember from when I was working and talking to our IT support person, it used to be that when you wanted to clone your computer hard drive, you had to have an exact match of that drive....make, model, size, etc., in order to create a clone. I think I was told that the controller had to match, among other things. When I clone my SSD, I would like to use a 1 TB drive instead of another 512 GB drive. QUESTION 1 - Can I use a 1 TB SSD for my clone, or must it be a 512 GB drive?

QUESTION 2 - Must I use a Dell-provided SSD, or will any SSD with the same form factor work?

QUESTION 3 - If I am able to successfully clone my 512 GB drive to a 1 TB drive, and I switch them out so the 1 TB drive now becomes my permanent drive in my laptop......as long as I have less than say.......475 GB stored on my 1 TB drive, can I then start using my old 512 GB drive as my backup clone or must I use a drive that is at least 1 TB in size going forward, if I want to clone the 1 TB drive? If I can use the 512 GB drive as my new clone, do I need to separately reformat the 512 GB drive to use it as the new clone or does the cloning operation itself automatically format the drive?

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Upgrading my SSD drive Using EaseUs 11 Free Cloning Utility ???....

Hi Everyone,

I'm about ready to install a Bigger SSD M.2 drive in my year old Alienware 17 R-4 Laptop with a Toshiba NVMe 256G PCIe SSD M.2 fast drive already installed from the factory. I read online that the "Migration software" that Samsung 970EVO 500G SSD
m.2 drive supports does Not Clone over any of the Factory OEM partitions that has the restore to factory defaults in them unless your OS Drive is a Samsung drive. My plan is to Clone my original C: drive to the New Samsung 970EVO 500G SSD drive and when done
remove the factory drive. (saving it as a complete Back-up just incase) so my question is

Will EaseUs Free 11 Clone my entire SSD Toshiba drive to my New Samsung SSD 970EVO 500G NVMe M.2 drive including all OEM Partitions?... And will it boot from the new drive after cloning?

Has anyone used this free trial EaseUs 11 To Clone there SSD To SSD drive?

PS... I'm running Win 10 October 1809 X64 and I'm sorry if I didn't post this to the right topic.

Thank-You in advance for your HELP!...

 

EASEUS Partition Master Professional 6.1.1 Giveaway

Yes, just create a new partition using the free space.
Step by step here: Free partition manager to resize/move FAT & NTFS hard disk partition
But, remember, if things can go wrong... they will at the most inopportune moment.
You might wanna make a disk image(or back-up) of the files first.
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Upgrading my SSD drive Using EaseUs 11 Free Cloning Utility ???....

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

Please be informed that Microsoft does not recommend any third party software as such I will not be able to comment on EaseUs Free 11 Clone software. I would request you to post a query on our TechNet forum since it’s related
to Cloning a Hard drive. Please post your question in the
TechNet Windows 10 forum.

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