SSD Upgrade on Lenovo Legion Go - Part 2 - Restore backup

 TL;DR; - It worked perfectly as expected.

0. Prerequisites

Same as part 1

2. Go into BIOS and disable internal battery (to disconnect the internal battery until external power is applied). Also disable secure boot.





2. Replace the SSD in the device.

I bought one of these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C5YS3QY4?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

and the adaptor to make it long enough for the Legion Go

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BLJNGGVD?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

The hardware swap is well documented elsewhere. The hardest part was removing the foil from the old drive.






3. Insert the USB stick prepared earlier with Veeam and activate the boot menu (vol+ while power on, select boot menu. Also attach the large external drive with the backup image from before.

4. Boot from the USB stick prepared with Veeam



5. Wait for quite a while while it boots...



6. Pick bare metal recovery




7. Backup location - local storage... next...


7. Restore mode - entire computer




(NB You can restore to a different partition layout here, but I chose to restore as-is and sort it out later in Windows)

8. Click restore on the summery tab:


9. Wait (quite a while...) for the restore to happen


9. When its done, click finish and allow it to reboot.

I pulled the USB drives out just after it had reset, before the OS had booted.


10. Profit!



10. Bazzite


My goal from the process was to try Bazzite, to get instant suspend/resume like the Steam Deck.
I followed this guide and it worked well (so far :) )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUES5B5j6EU&t=1535

11. Regrets? I have one

If I was to do this again, I would uninstall everything from Windows before making the image backup, so it would be small enough to keep in a cloud account as a backup of the windows install on this thing. As it is, its got a ton of games on and is 400Gb. My old SSD is that backup now.

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