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You can clone it with clonezilla, or with
ddif you’re feeling particularly ballsy.If your boot sectors are on the m.2 and you clone to it then you’ll overwrite them though, which is no bueno; and I’m not entirely sure how to fix that, but I’m sure there is a way.
EDIT: You can use
grub-installto do it, from a live USB.I’d make a full clone of your SSD to a third drive (external?) and then try adding boot sectors to your SSD, then set it as the boot device in your BIOS/UEFI. If it boots successfully, you’re good to clone it to the m.2. If not, restore that backup and do some googling! (Hell, I’d do it anyway just to verify my advice…)
If this is meant for the other user, you replied to the wrong comment.
If you meant to respond to me, I don't need this. I've already removed Windows from the hard drive and I plan on using either Tiny10 or Tiny11 on this computer when I get a new computer to run Linux on in the future.