NVMe upgrade

[Ph0eniXx]

I can't afford a pc rn so i'm stuck with my 5 Y.O MSI laptop who served me more than well till now i have a 1TB HDD and i want to upgrade to an M.2 (Crucial P5) i just watched a jayz two cents video about an app to clone the windows 10 into ur new storage device but my hard drive is divided to 300GB nearly for the C partition and the rest are for my work data what i knew from the video -correct me if i'm wrong - is that app (AOMEI pack upper) copies the whole drive to the new drive is there a method by which i can only copy the C: partition since the NVMe iam getting is only 500GB and i'll use the 1TB HDD for storage + i noticed in the video that the games/ apps idk are not working do i have to download them from the start or they will work ?
Thanks in advance

[mariushm]

First make sure your laptop has a M.2 connector in the first place.  Being so old, it may only have SATA.

IF it does have a m.2 connector, make sure it supports nvme  ... some laptops only had SATA m.2

 

The applications should allow you to only select the C partition and the other small partitions windows created, when cloning the drive. You'll simply not clone the other partition.

Once the cloning is done, simply enlarge C  to use the full 500 GB of the m.2 and copy the files you care about over.

 

[Ph0eniXx]

22 minutes ago, mariushm said:

First make sure your laptop has a M.2 connector in the first place.  Being so old, it may only have SATA.

IF it does have a m.2 connector, make sure it supports nvme  ... some laptops only had SATA m.2

 

The applications should allow you to only select the C partition and the other small partitions windows created, when cloning the drive. You'll simply not clone the other partition.

Once the cloning is done, simply enlarge C  to use the full 500 GB of the m.2 and copy the files you care about over.

 

it has a place for an m.2 when i was changing the fans i noticed it but does it allow NVMe or not idk my laptop is MSI ge 62 6qf apache pro 
 

[mariushm]

1 hour ago, Ph0eniXx said:

it has a place for an m.2 when i was changing the fans i noticed it but does it allow NVMe or not idk my laptop is MSI ge 62 6qf apache pro 
 

well the specs page says https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GE62-6QF-Apache-Pro/Specification

1 x 2.5" HDD + 1 x NVMe M.2 SSD by PCIe Gen3 X4 / SATA-SSD Combo

 

so yea, you can do m.2 nvme

Always check, not always guaranteed.

[Ph0eniXx]

5 hours ago, mariushm said:

well the specs page says https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GE62-6QF-Apache-Pro/Specification

1 x 2.5" HDD + 1 x NVMe M.2 SSD by PCIe Gen3 X4 / SATA-SSD Combo

 

so yea, you can do m.2 nvme

Always check, not always guaranteed.

i know and i always check before i do anything but wanted someone with more experience than me to help me make this decision so do u think it'll be a good upgrade for now ? 
+ will i be able to take the full potential out of that crucial p5  ?