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I recently purchased a used Dell XPS 13 (model 9360), and I chose to purchase the base option (with 128 GB SSD) since it was cheaper to do that and upgrade the SSD to a larger model (500 GB) aftermarket than to buy a higher model XPS (I bought this model: ). I've upgraded drives in many Macs and on Linux PCs over the years, and the process is pretty painless, with a plethora of freely available options for disk cloning (e.g. Disk Utility on macOS, dd on Linux or macOS, etc.). But on Windows, it seems there's nothing built-in for cloning or imaging a disk—instead you have to download and/or purchase a utility to help with this process. Annoying, but in the end it worked out, so I won't get too angry about it. Tools used: Spudger, #000 phillips screwdriver, T5 Torx screwdriver.

I tried both and, and found Macrium Reflect to be a little easier to work with. There are countless tutorials on the Internet for how to do a disk clone, but I wanted to point out the process I used since there were a few gotchas:.

I tried cloning the internal drive to my new M.2 SSD mounted inside an SATA-to-NVMe/M.2 adapter, which was then plugged into a USB 3.1-to-SATA adapter. Apparently that was one adapter too many, because the clone seemed to fail at random places.

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I then cloned the internal drive to a second external USB 3.0 hard drive I had sitting around (this drive was larger than the internal SSD so it had enough space to clone all the partitions). I created a 'Restore Media' USB boot drive using Macrium Reflect, so I could boot the XPS 13 off of it once I replaced the SSD. I opened the XPS 13, replaced the NVMe SSD with the new one, and closed it back up. I plugged in the Restore Media I created in step 3, as well as the USB 3.0 external drive that had the internal drive clone (from step 2). I booted the XPS 13 and pressed the 'F12' key when the Dell logo appeared, to access the boot menu. I chose to boot from the Restore Media (a SanDisk USB flash drive).

This booted into Macrium Reflect, where I cloned the USB 3.0 external drive to the new internal drive. I booted the Dell and let it do it's hardware checks (it seems to have detected that there was a hardware change, so it did some system integrity checks then made a really loud BEEP!). As an illustration of step 4, here's how easy it is to access the SSD once the back cover is removed: At the end of this process, Windows 10 booted back up just like it was before—including showing me a 128 GB system boot drive!

Important Note: When opening the bottom cover of the XPS 13, there are two very important things you should do to make sure you don't break anything:. Remove the phillips screw under the magentic 'XPS' cover (just lift that cover to reveal the screw). If you don't. SNAP, it will break!.

Use the spudger or a guitar pick to gently pry apart the case from the front edge of the XPS, then pull up on the front edge. Don't try to pry the cover from the back (where the larger gap is or near the ports), because there are thicker retaining clips back there (see illustration below), and one of them is likely to break if you pry too hard! The key is: If you're bending the cover to get it to pop off.

You're probably prying up in the wrong place. I wish Dell weren't so aggressive with the retaining clips, but since they are, make sure you pry up the cover gently using a plastic spudger or guitar pick, and do it from the front of the laptop, not the back! So the next step was to get all the 'Unallocated space' on the end of the new 500 GB SSD to be part of the C: OS boot partition. I pressed Windows Key + X to get to Disk Management. Then I realized you can't merge partitions unless they are contiguous, and Windows 10's built-in Disk Management utility can't move partitions at all! Oh well, off to download yet another freeware utility to do a basic system operation. This time I chose, which seemed to be the recommended way based on a bunch of random forum topics.

I opened up the partition Master, then dragged the partitions to the right of the C: partition all the way to the right of the 'Unallocated space', so the free space was to the right of the C: partition. Then I right clicked on the C: partition and chose 'Move/Merge', and merged it with the 'Unallocated space'. Finally, I hit 'Apply', which required a reboot, and waited for EaseUS to do it's work moving around the partitions and making the larger C: partition a reality. After the reboot, the hard rive reports '417 GB free of 454 GB', so it looks like everything worked out in the end! @Tim - I have a pretty substantial review of the XPS 13 in draft mode right now. Waiting on some time to finish it up though. I'm not using it as my daily workstation, but still have been trying it out for longer periods of time to see what I like/hate about it.

More to come. Haven't decided on dual-booting Linux yet. For now, VirtualBox satisfies that need, but I do want to have a native Linux distro (probably either Fedora or Ubuntu) running on it for testing purposes.

But that means more partitioning and UEFI stuff, and I hate how complicated that can be (and how easy it is to accidentally lose your Windows license for an Authentic Windows Experience™!). I want to echo Ian Hurrell's comment from 4 months ago. Thank you indeed, upgraded my XPS SSD from 128GB to 256GB. Very helpful guide, special thanks for including the part about merging partitions to make the new additional space accessible. With my version of EaseUS, I could drag the partitions as you describe to position the 'Unallocated Space' next to the boot partition (C:).

Before I could merge, I had to make the 'Unallocated Space' a named partition ('create partition') That created new drive letter E. Then I could select both C: and E: for merge, with C: as the destination (EaseUS forces destination to be C: - very nice). Again, thanks for a great job. Thank you for writing this guide, it was very helpful! I did encounter a problem when it came to merging partitions. Once I had the new SSD installed, and had the software, when I hit merge and apply, my laptop could not restart properly. It said that I would need to use recovery tools and installation media, but I had copied windows 10 onto a USB and had it plugged it at the time.

I switched back to my old SSD but still need to use my new one at some point. If you have any advice, please let me know!