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30 questions linked to/from Free way to clone HDD to SSD?
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How can I detect which Windows 8 version I have? [duplicate]
A few hours ago I bought a new ASUS N56 laptop (VZ 4215H).
It has Windows 8 on the HDD, I've bought an HDD caddy and an SSD.
Is there a program that can move the OS to the SSD?
How can I detect ...
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I need to move Windows 10 from a hard drive to a solid state drive [duplicate]
I recently built another desktop computer with 3 drives, one of which is from my old computer. I want to move my Windows install to the new solid state drive without losing all of my files on the old ...
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Replacing hard drive of laptop having geniune windows 8 [duplicate]
I have bought a new Laptop Sony VAIO E17, it has a pre-installed windows 8 64bit. Now after using it few days I want to replace my HDD with new SSD, if I will change my hard-drive I will loss my ...
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How to install Windows 8 without the setup DVD that came with my notebook? [duplicate]
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Free way to clone HDD to SSD?
Recently I bought an Asus u32vj and decided to change from its hdd to a smaller capacity ssd. The problem is I can't figure out how to migrate ...
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How to clone Windows 10 Home from SATA SSD to new nVME SSD? [duplicate]
Here's my particular situation:
Have a new MSI Codex R desktop which came with a 500 Gb SATA SSD with Win 10 Home. I've booted up, pulled windows update, installed my G513 Carbon keyboard driver and a ...
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How to clone an M.2 drive through a computer and USB-M.2 adapter? [duplicate]
want to upgrade the SSD size of my Laptop without reinstalling everything if possible.
The laptop has an M.2. drive and I have an M.2->USB adapter (like this https://www.amazon.de/-/en/FIDECO-...
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Archive entire hard drive [duplicate]
How would you recommend backing up an entire hard drive?
Back story:
I often help others perform a clean OS installation (usually Windows) or migrate to a new hard drive. I like to begin with a full ...
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Windows 10 HDD to SSD for primary partition [duplicate]
Just upgraded boot partition to a 480gb SSD and its so much quicker, but.. Now my primary partition is divided as followed. [111.16GB System Reserved][224.53GB NTFS][111.333GB Recovery Partition] It ...
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best way to clone HDD to SSD Window 7 [duplicate]
This is really similar to this question but some of the methods did not work for me. For example Clonezilla and GParted is not booting from my USB device (created with YUMI).
I was following this ...
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Win8 migration HDD to SSD [duplicate]
Can you guys instruct me how to migrate a HDD to a SSD?
Also I was thinking about having ubuntu and win8 in the same SSD, 250GB each and then have the HDD for files only. I bought an MSI GT70 20C, do ...
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Creating laptop's disk drive image [duplicate]
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Free way to clone HDD to SSD?
I have bought a new laptop and there is an original HDD which I replaced with the SSD one. I do want to make an image of the original hard drive ...
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How do I move my current Windows from an ssd to a bigger ssd? [duplicate]
So for months, I have been struggling to live with a 128 GB SSD. The available space of the drive is getting smaller and I had to uninstall some programs over time. I currently have this SSD as my C ...
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Is it possible to move win10 installation? [duplicate]
I have my win10 and various apps installed on my HDD. And I have a new SSD. Is there a way to safely move win10 to the SSD? Or the only way is to install it again?
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Hard Disk Upgrade [duplicate]
I want to upgrade my laptop hard disk but take an image of my current drive and make the new one exactly the same and bootable so that basically I just have a bigger hard disk.
Can this be done - an ...
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Options for Internal SSD Upgrade [duplicate]
I currently have a 256GB internal SSD in my laptop, but it isn't enough. I have just ordered a 500GB one, and that will be enough (at least for now).
I have looked up a few things on how to "...
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Easiest way to move my Windows installation to an SSD?
I've taken the plunge and bought an SSD and want to move my existing Windows installation over. The current hard disk is 500Gb, but I've trimmed the contents down to about ~40Gb. I'm transferring it ...
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Cannot boot Windows 8.1 after migrating to Samsung SSD using supplied software
I got a brand new Samsung 840 SSD. It came with "Data Migration" software from Samsung.
I am running Windows 8.1.
Here are my steps exactly:
Installed new SSD into secondary bay (Disk 0: HDD, Disk ...
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How should I copy data from HDD to SSD? [duplicate]
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Copying an HDD to an SSD?
I am going to buy a SSD for my laptop. For now I have 500GB HDD drive and I am thinking about buying 128GB or 256GB of SSD.
I would like to copy ...
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Copying an HDD to an SSD?
I am thinking about buying an SSD in the near future for my notebook.
Is it possible to copy all files from an HDD to the new SSD, without having to format everything and install all apps again?
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Cloning Hard drive to smaller SSD [duplicate]
I have a 146GB HDD in one of my servers that I want to replace with a 120GB SSD. Can I just clone the drive with dd and have it boot just fine? Are there any repurcussions to cloning to a smaller ...
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Cloning windows 7 [duplicate]
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How do I easily copy or clone a Windows boot partition onto a new hard drive?
How do I clone my current HDD to a new one? It's getting constant chkdsk operations every time I ...
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WIndows10: change to SSD
I have a normal few months old (IBuyPower brand - awesome) desktop style PC in a full size case.
It has totally normal, fully licensed etc Windows10 as purchased at a big box retailer. FTR I keep it ...
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Change Windows 10 installation from one physical drive to other
I have an old PC with a HDD of 500GB with Windows 10 installation and is almost 90% filled with. The HDD is now fairly old and response time of Windows has become too slow.
I am planning to upgrade PC ...
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clone a running Windows 7 from 240 GB SSD to 120 GB SSD
is it possible to clone my running Windows 7 from a bigger SSD to a smaller SSD.
or do i need to reinstall everything?
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Did have a risk of corruption to my disk when i migrate it
I tried to copy my current disk SSHD 1 To onto a SSD 1 To. Both of them are configured in GPT. I do the first section of this site
https://www.partitionwizard.com/help/migrate-os-to-ssd-hd.html
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Swapping out hard drive for SSD
I purchased a new SSD hard drive (Samsung 860 Evo) and will be installing it in the next day or two. I have watched some videos on this and it looks very easy. I have replaced older style hard drives ...
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How to clone Windows HDD to a smaller SSD with Windows built in tool
I would like to move my OEM Windows from a big HDD to a smaller SSD. Windows 7 + SP1 has a built in toool.
My problem is that it could not find a way for it to make an image file only of the used ...
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Upgrading machine to SSD, and upgrading OS
I am upgrading my machine(selfbuilt) to run on an SSD(250gb).
I want to put my OS and common apps on it, I know I am not exactly reinvinting the wheel here in terms of complicated questions, but I ...
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Windows 8 OEM: How to do a fresh install onto a smaller drive [duplicate]
I want to upgrade the 500GB HDD that came with my Dell Laptop to a 120GB SSD. Windows 8 came pre-loaded (OEM, no sticker).
Here's what I've tried so far:
Attempt #1:
Create a restore disk using the ...
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New Computer with HDD, move to SSD
I am looking to purchase a new computer. I reached out to Dell, and they were going to charge me about $1800 for a new desktop and when I started to inquire, found out that they were charging over $...