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Advice on cloning a drive

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Hello I am seeking help on cloning an ssd onto a larger capacity ssd
I have a Dell 3070SFF which has a 128gb WD (short form factor) nvme ssd drive in the single m2 socket on the motherboard.
All that is on this drive is windows 11. I want to replace this with a 500gb nvme drive and clone my existing drive on to it . I bought a usb converter to carry my original drive and put the new 500gb nvme in the M2 slot but could not get this to work no matter what I did. I laterread that you can't do this from USB
Having read on here an article about pcie to nvme converters I am now wondering whether I can get one that I can put my original drive in and clone it to the new one?
I have 2 pcie socket on the board one appears to be a standard socket about 3 inches long and one is about one inch long.Also the total height of the case is about 3 inches so a standard bracket won't fit and of course the adapter can't be too high either I would be grateful if anyone who knows about these things can tell me if what I am suggesting is possible, what sort of adapter I would need and if possible instructions on anything else I might need to do to get it to work.

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