Cloning 2 m.2 SSDs

[eternal quarry]

Hey, Looking to clone 2 SSDs, I do not have a second system to run Clonezilla which would have made this so much more easier, so I opted into Macrium Reflect.
The problem is that Macrium only clones up to 25% before it stops and throws error 9, which has its on 3 different reasons.

1. Drive isn't connected properly
2. Drive that is being cloned has bad sectors
3. I forgot

The drive is connected properly and I can put files on it and install games on it.
There might be some issues with bad sectors with my drive that I want to clone but even when turning off the option to stop cloning if it has bad sectors, it still fails.

Old drive (the one I want to clone) - Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB (Connected to gen3 slot)
New drive (the one I want to clone to) - Kingston kc3000 2TB (Connected to gen4 slot)

I ran a diagnostic tool in Samsung Magic for the 970 Evo Plus and it did not find any bad sectors, weirdly enough I did the same scan a year ago and it found 32 bad sectors.

My question would be how could I make this clone successful and would it be worth turning the 970 evo plus to system drive after the cloning is done, giving that my current SATA SSD seems to be on its last legs (Health being 35%)

[floral lotus]

Why would you clone a drive?

[floral lotus]

Wait are you booting off of a SATA SSD? I would never recommend cloning a drive, to be honest with you

[eternal quarry]

Currently booting off the SATA SSD, I want to clone the samsung drive to kingston drive.
If I can get my files from the samsung drive onto kingston then I can use the samsung drive as system drive.

[floral lotus]

Why wouldn't you just copy the files over normally, as the new drive won't be the boot drive?

[floral lotus]

If you are planning to clone the SATA SSD to the 970, please don't and do a clean install. Cloning can cause all kinds of issues down the road, especially, if the drive sizes are different

[eternal quarry]

Never planned on cloning the SATA ssd, more like starting fresh with 970 and formatting the sata ssd or keeping it as backup system drive.

I have tried just copying over the files but previously I've ran into issues where stuff tends to get corrupted

[floral lotus]

Is it mostly just games on that drive? If so, consider just copying all other files and redownloading the games

[eternal quarry]

Its software and games. Software sure I can just install back but with games, redownloading ~600GB worth of games with my current internet isn't a viable option