Cloning, Increasing SSD Partitions of Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, 2nd Generation (Rel 2)

Used a Transcend 512 GB SATA III SSD, in the following enclosure, to clone the existing 128GiB SSD: "ZTC Thunder Enclosure NGFF M.2 SSD to USB 3.0 Adapter. Support UASP SuperSpeed 6Gb/s 520MB/s Black Model ZTC-EN004-BK"

• Really tough to insert the Transcend SSD drive into the ZTC M.2 SSD to USB 3.0 Adapter board (the adapter board and SSD then gets inserted into the enclosure)
• The adapter's USB 3.0 Micro-B receptacle seemed poorly soldered, most likely a factory defect
• After inserting the USB 3.0 Micro-B plug, Microsoft Windows recognized the adapter, then, after a few seconds, lost connection to it
• The adapter's blue LEDs turned on/off in the same way
• Physically bumping the adapter seemed to produce the same effect
• After some experimentation, I discovered flexing the USB 3.0 Micro-B receptacle, at a downward angle, allowed for a reliable connection
• After finding the workaround mentioned above, I sat for nearly 18 minutes, holding the adapter board perfectly still, at this angle, to complete the clone of the existing disk
• We did not use the aluminum enclosure, just the M.2 SSD to USB 3.0 Adapter...due to the faulty soldering...having the adapter in the enclosure did not allow for the workaround
• We used software Macrium Reflect Free, version 6.0.685 (17 June 2015); it worked perfectly--love it!

After cloning the internal disk, we replaced the 128GiB X1 Carbon internal SSD with the new 512GiB SSD:

• This went smoothly
• We needed to apply a non-trivial amount of force to unscrew the screw holding down the SSD
• Insertion of the Transcend 512 GB SATA III drive was no problem

Rebooting showed everything as expected!

Due to dual-OS configuration, on one disk, enlarging partitions had a few wrinkles:

• The original 128GB SSD had a hidden, 7GiB Intel Rapid Start Technology (IRST) partition, as the last partition
• We found no partition editors which would allow us to move this partition 
• After disabling BIOS IRST support and doing some research, we deleted this partition, with no ill effect
• The vendor seems to have labeled this partition "OEM", which caused a bit of confusion, initially...many posts advised, rightfully so, to not delete the OEM partition
• After deleting the IRST partition, we successfully moved the Ubuntu swap partition, allowing room to expand the main Ubuntu partition size
• After a reboot, we increased the partition size of the Microsoft Windows 8 C:\ partition (after taking a risk and deleting a 1.0 MiB partition which seemed unused)
• We also created a new IRST partition:
• Type = Unformatted
• Drive Letter = None
• Use diskpart to set the ID to D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593
• After creating the IRST partition, we re-enabled IRST in BIOS
• Hibernation works, as expected, with the system going into Microsoft Windows S4 sleep mode

So far, all seems well. Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows work, as expected. 

Cleanup tasks:

• Migrate files from external USB 3.0 SSD to internal USB 3.0 SSD
• Update Ubuntu
• (?)

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