Here's my particular situation:

Have a new MSI Codex R desktop which came with a 500 Gb SATA SSD with Win 10 Home. I've booted up, pulled windows update, installed my G513 Carbon keyboard driver and a webcam driver from Logitech. That's it. The drive is balkanized into several partitions (I suspect some are backup/recovery partitions).

Before I do anything more, I want to install a new ADATA 8200 1TB M.2 nVME drive in the empty M.2 slot. Then I wish to load the new M.2 nVME drive with the contents of the SATA drive (so it can become the system drive with Windows 10).

I want to preserve (in a functioning state) any MSI recovery partitions, etc. originally on the SATA SSD in the new nVME SSD. I'm not in the know of how these recovery partitions work - can they be moved around on the same drive and still be found by the recovery software as long as content/volume name don't change?

I'd like to know what steps and tools would be best for this. That's my main goal of asking here.

I do not have the option of a disk duplicator (AFAIK) because the duplicators I've seen do SATA to SATA and don't support NVME. Is there a cheap, decent duplicator that would support SATA to nVME duplication? Or is that even feasible?

I'd like to adjust some partitions on the new nVME SSD from the sizes/organization on the SATA SSD (the new drive is much larger) and perhaps the order (if that makes sense) but still make sure the MSI backup/recovery stuff ought to work if I need it to. So the tool probably needs to be able to expand, merge, relocate partitions.

I've heard of Macrium Reflect, Acronis TrueImage, Clonezilla, and others. I have found trying to figure out what I ought to do (what type of a transfer/cloning, what tool) to be a bit of a mire...

After I can boot from the nVME drive, I'm happy to wipe the original 500 Gb SATA SSD to use for more storage.

The BIOS is setup in UEFI mode and Windows 10 Home is installed on the SATA SSD (the nvME M.2 SSD is not installed yet). I want the same windows install preserved so I'm assuming moving it to a new drive, reassigning drive letters to keep the system partition to be the same drive letter should make for a fairly straightforward step.

What do you recommend for tools and for steps in the process?

Here's my particular situation:

Have a new MSI Codex R desktop which came with a 500 Gb SATA SSD with Win 10 Home. I've booted up, pulled windows update, installed my G513 Carbon keyboard driver and a webcam driver from Logitech. That's it. The drive is balkanized into several partitions (I suspect some are backup/recovery partitions).

Before I do anything more, I want to install a new ADATA 8200 1TB M.2 nVME drive in the empty M.2 slot. Then I wish to load the new M.2 nVME drive with the contents of the SATA drive (so it can become the system drive with Windows 10).

I want to preserve (in a functioning state) any MSI recovery partitions, etc. originally on the SATA SSD in the new nVME SSD. I'm not in the know of how these recovery partitions work - can they be moved around on the same drive and still be found by the recovery software as long as content/volume name don't change?

I'd like to know what steps and tools would be best for this. That's my main goal of asking here.

I do not have the option of a disk duplicator (AFAIK) because the duplicators I've seen do SATA to SATA and don't support NVME. Is there a cheap, decent duplicator that would support SATA to nVME duplication? Or is that even feasible?

I'd like to adjust some partitions on the new nVME SSD from the sizes/organization on the SATA SSD (the new drive is much larger) and perhaps the order (if that makes sense) but still make sure the MSI backup/recovery stuff ought to work if I need it to. So the tool probably needs to be able to expand, merge, relocate partitions.

I've heard of Macrium Reflect, Acronis TrueImage, Clonezilla, and others. I have found trying to figure out what I ought to do (what type of a transfer/cloning, what tool) to be a bit of a mire...

After I can boot from the nVME drive, I'm happy to wipe the original 500 Gb SATA SSD to use for more storage.

The BIOS is setup in UEFI mode and Windows 10 Home is installed on the SATA SSD (the nvME M.2 SSD is not installed yet). I want the same windows install preserved so I'm assuming moving it to a new drive, reassigning drive letters to keep the system partition to be the same drive letter should make for a fairly straightforward step.

What do you recommend for tools and for steps in the process?

EDIT: Here's the process I imagine:

1. Install nVME drive on the M.2 slot. Don't change boot order. Make sure it is formatted. (If it isn't, that brings up the question of how to format it or whether that's necessary with most products that clone?)
2. Run a clone (sector by sector or otherwise) from the SATA SSD to nVME SSD. (Question that arises: Do I need to boot from a USB key or other device so the OS is not actually running with cloning software?)
3. Disconnect the SATA drive for now.
4. Set the boot settings in the BIOS to start the new nVME drive with the same drive letter as the SATA drive had.
5. If all goes well, it starts, everything runs.

Then I can reformat the 500 Gb SATA drive.

Does that sound about right?