All the methods I see around cloning your old drive to your new one require an enclosure of some sort, I don’t really want to pay for extra hardware for something I imagine I will only ever do once. Is there any way to back up my SSD to my windows machine and then load it onto my new replacement SSD? Or is this a bad idea/should I start from a OS install?
The main reason is not so much the downloaded games, it’s more stuff like saved persistent decky powertools profiles, some non-steam games I’ve added and had to spend hours configuring to work properly, some other configs I have for some decky plugins like css loader, notes, etc.
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I don’t know if it’s a good idea or not, but:
You can boot into a live image of gparted, and back up the entire disk as an image file via dd (commandline), either on a usb or on the microsd.
Later, you can flash that image back to the internal ssd, after you swapped it