Nope, just blinded by the banner.
Thanks for showing me the light.
Your steps look okay.
Should work fine.
I don’t know what the cloning softare will do with the additional space.
But the clone should be identical.
Check the cloning software documentation.
One note:
On step 1., the new SSD may not be recognized.
You may need to go to Disk Management to initialize it.
And make it a new disk letter.
Clone it.
When you take it out and switch with the existing, it will be C: then.
Format the old one.
I did mine last year using a duplictaer\caddy i bought from amazon. Worked a treat, and just had to exended the size in disk manager when i plugged it back into the motherboard (MSI Z780 Wifi Pro).
I just did this with Corsair drives. Used the Clone program in SSD Toolbox. Went from a 2TB drive to a 4TB.
Took about 2 hours to clone the drive to the new one that I put in the second M.2 slot after removing my P3D drive from the second slot.
Swapped the drive to the 1st slot and put my P3D drive back in slot 2.
It was painless.
Just make sure to redownload the FlightSimulator install program from the Xbox App and let it do it’s thing. That took around 10 minutes and everything was still intact.
Thanks for the great advice, everyone. @BegottenPoet228…sorry about the banner blocking of my screen shot!
I’m kind of leaning towards just installing the new SSD as a second disk and moving Community/Official to it. If performance seems to suffer, then I’ll revert and go with plan B, clone and swap. Will advise here when I get this done.
Not your fault, really. It’s the way the forum software works. If you hover over a pic it shows the file name banner. If I’d moved the mouse somewhere else I would have (might have 
) seen the motherboard model at the very bottom.
It is helpful to screengrab extra room at the bottom so the info doesn’t get hidden. But really, it was just a comedy of errors on my part. I think you’ll be fine with two M.2 SSD’s in that system. Happy flying!
I definitely think you should get Addons_Linker and put it on the 2nd drive. Put all your 3rd Party content into folders (Aircraft, Scenery, Libraries, etc.) and then you create presets that dynamically load symbolic links in Community (which keeps the Community folder practically empty.) You can still move the Community/Official folders to the 2nd drive. But the 3rd Party content will be in the Addons_Linker folder. It’s a ‘must have’ free app for me.
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I’ve thought about Add-on Linker, though sometimes I just shift things in and out of Community manually. I wrote a quick Powershell to link/unlink GSX, which when “active” seems to add two minutes to FS2020 load time, as well as an extra minute or so to spawn or exit a flight.
Anyways, SSD on its way…gotta love same day delivery from Amazon. 
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MSFS Add-ons Linker is so easy and yet very feature rich if you want to go deeper. I currently have the sim installed on my C drive and use Add-ons-linker to store all of my community folder on another Nvme. The multiple gigs of data in the community folder is most likely a significant part of the bulk data that will be transferred from disk during a flight so having it on the fastest drive is a good thing 
and off loads the C drive.
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Alright, to follow up, 2G SSD installed as a third drive (MSI came with a 1G SSD and a 2 Gig HDD, copied my Official and Community to new SSD, updated userconfig.opt (thanks @TenPatrol for the link), piece of cake. Total of 429G of data, 351K files. 
The speed to load FS2020 is about the same…sometimes up to 7 minutes with GSX enabled, more like 4 without, and that’s with all my Community content. I can handle that, as I’m usually doing Simbrief/Navigraph planning anyways. Sort of like waiting on IRS alignment.
I’m curious as to the correlation between load times and Official/Community content, but will start a new thread.
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