Windows 10: Why did I randomly gain more GB on my SSD?

Okay, so this is the third time this has happened. Recently, I woke up today to find out I had 172 GB on my main SSD, and before going to bed, I had only 162 GB, which is average for me.What happened? I did disk clean-up a few days ago to clear 4 GB of update files, and there was not that much on the selections.

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Running out of 256 GB SSD Space

Windows 11 Pro, Version 22H2, 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

HP Omen 25L Desktop GT12-0xxx

AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.59 GHz, 16.0 GB RAM

Western Digital 256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD with 44.3 GB Free



I want to clone or make a duplicate copy of everything on the 256GB SSD to the new 2TB SSD including the Windows OS.

Can anyone provide a much-needed step-by-step process (No 3rd party additional Software to Purchase) or a video that show a step by step on how to complete this full 256 GB SSD Transfer to 2TB SSD.

Just purchased:

Western Digital 2TB WD Blue SN570 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 3,500 MB/s - WDS200T3B0C

Plus a

M.2 NVMe Enclosure to install the 2TB drive and clone/duplicate/copy OS & Files to it.

 

Is my SSD dead?

It happened about a month ago so I'm can't remember the exact details of how it died. I think I restarted the PC and the message was there I had no OS. Today I popped in my mirrored HD and was up running. I hocked up the SSD and restarted the PC but no sign of the SSD. Power is on (Zalman “hot swap” case has a power LED for each disk). I tried to find it in DOS but the drive is no where to be found. Any suggestions for a next step? It 1½ month past RMA but the important thing is to retrieve some of the files.

Transcend 120 GB, part of the Noisy one in my sig

 

Corsair Neutron SSDs Now Available

Sorry I won a vertex 4 256 gb SSD? Stepping out of trollville now.. *Laugh :laugh: