Swap current nVME drive to a different computer

[axrusar]

Hi guys. Here is a peak at my current partitioning on my 1TB nVme drive.



I need to remove the M.2 drive from this laptop and pop it to another absolutely different motherboard on a PC i will build.
My home partition is encrypted and i do have the recovery "passphrase", although i have no clue i will need it here?

I do not expect Grub to be too happy on the new system, so can you guys tell me a bit what steps i should take to avoid trouble?
The windows partitions i do not care, i may actually want to re partition from scratch.
I've used FoxCLone to backup everything just in case.
Thank you

[manyroads]

Would you be kind enough to explain what you are trying to accomplish? I know I'm old and slow, but I have no idea what you are trying to do... If you are simply hoping to read the data files on your new machine, you should be able to do that once it is plugged in. If you are trying to dual boot or run an OS from the new drive.... well that could be a different story.

[deepakdeshp]

Choose the nvme as the first boot device in bios after swapping and boot. The uuid may have to be adjusted in /etc/fstab to match with

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 sudo blkid

[Moonstone Man]

I do not expect Grub to be too happy on the new system, so can you guys tell me a bit what steps i should take to avoid trouble?

Contrary to the other replies, the only thing you need to do is make sure that the destination machine is set for UEFI boot. That can be either UEFI/CSM or just UEFI, but not CSM or Legacy on its own. There is no need to do anything to fstab other than commenting out any mount points that do not belong to the NVMe if the machine has more than one drive. If you do that before removing the drive, it should just boot. You may need to use your UEFI/BIOS boot key, but that will depend on the destination machine's UEFI/BIOS and how its configured to treat NVMes, which are usually, but not always, given priority over SATA devices.

The only reason for commenting out any mount points that do not belong to the NVMe is to prevent a 30 second delay in booting while the OS waits for the mount point to be activated until the 30 second timeout occurs.

[Moonstone Man]

Would you be kind enough to explain what you are trying to accomplish? I know I'm old and slow, but I have no idea what you are trying to do...

Clearly, the poster is trying to move a working drive from one machine to another. It is unnecessary to know what the poster is attempting to accomplish therefore it is none of our business.

[axrusar]

Thank you so much guys!!!!
Yes indeed, to clarify, i am getting a new computer that's all