So I ran into this a little bit last year, trying to save my old Lenovo Yoga. I had initially purchased WD NVME Drive, and an enclosure to hold it, and tried to clone it. I had issues, ended up locking up the NVME drive, and when I couldn't find the right adapter to plug it into the MB anyway, I just went with a SATA SSD. (Which went great), but the WD cloning software did not work right for me.
I am by no means an expert at all, but in your situation I would either do a fresh OS install on a new NVMe SSD and use that, or buy a 2.5" SATA SSD, clone your spiny plater across and go from there.
Someone smarter than me could probably get the SATA to NVMe clone working, but it kicked my ass. FWIW, this is the drive I ended up using, and it went great. Computer went from 2:35 sec boot to 0:45 boot and runs much better now. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08QBJ2YMG/?th=1
I don't own anything with an NVMe slot, so I haven't faced this. I have done all my HDD to SSD conversions using a USD-to-SATA cable to run the SSD drive, and using the free edition of Macrium Reflect to clone the drive. Once done, then I just swapped in the new SSD drive.
"Why use Macrium Reflect when Samsung provides cloning software?" you ask? Partitions. The laptops I upgraded all had 750GB HDDs, and I was installing 1TB SSDs. The Samsung Magician software cloned the system
exactly -- configuring the 1TB SSD as a 750 GB drive with an unallocated partition of 250 GB. I could have then used something to initialize and format that extra space as a D:/ drive, but that's not what I wanted. Macrium Reflect allowed me to grab the extra space as part of the C:/ drive partition while doing the cloning operation. No muss, no fuss.
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