upgrade a laptop hard drive

I'm considering installation of a larger hard drive in my laptop. Can
someone describe the options for cloning a couple of partitions from my
existing drive? I realize one option would be to copy to an external USB
drive. I assume another one would be to put the old drive in an external
enclosure and copy it in. I'm assuming there is not way to connect both
drives to internal connections - correct? or not - that would certainly be
faster than USB copies.

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