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Re: New Solid State Drive

Carlos
 

Oh yes, and don't forget to swap the data cables on the two drives after cloning/restoring the image so that the new drive will be on controller 0.  You can also clone/reimage on to the new drive by placing it in an enclosure.

----- Original Message -----
From: Carlos
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] New Solid State Drive

Imaging or cloning will copy your license as well so yes.  Just delete the partition with the Windows installation on the old drive after it has been copied on to the new drive.
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] New Solid State Drive

Ok, but still would have two W7 OS and can only have one active as only have one license. So would something like drive snap shot work?

 

 

 

 

From: Carlos [mailto:carlos1106@...]
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 3:45 PM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] New Solid State Drive

 

Reinstalling is the hard way to do it.  You can just use cloning or imaging software to copy which ever partitions you want to move on to the new disk.

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From: Matt

Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2016 3:40 PM

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] New Solid State Drive

 

Ok question when installing a new drive like this SSD . You have the old drive hooked up and in my case both W7 and W10 on it. So how would you install W7 and W10 on the new drive and it installed on the old drive? Now W10 Is easy just format and get rid of that partition. But W7 what about it? Don’t think I can format that partition and get rid of W7 while it is active and on that drive.  Cannot or would not be able to install it on the new drive till I got rid of it on the old drive? So trying to figure this out if I decided to add SSD to my computer and use my Old drive for just storage?

 

 

From: Carlos [mailto:carlos1106@...]
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 8:19 PM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: Re: [TechTalk] New Solid State Drive

 

The link was in the message, but here it is again just in case.

I bought the 256 GB model which was $119.89 with free shipping, but it is available in different sizes from 128 GB up to 2 TB.

----- Original Message -----

From: Matt

Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 8:13 PM

Subject: Re: [TechTalk] New Solid State Drive

 

What SSD did you get? You have a link to it and with the specs on it? If you don’t mind me asking how much did this put you back?

 

 

 

From: Carlos [mailto:carlos1106@...]
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2016 7:59 PM
To: TechTalk@groups.io
Subject: [TechTalk] New Solid State Drive

 

So for anyone who cares, I finally purchased and installed my new SSD last night.

The installation didn't go nearly as smoothly as I was hoping which is an understatement, but I finally got it all sorted out.  Although I suspect the problems were on my end and nothing to do with the drive itself.  Some time in the next couple of days, I will tackle installing Windows 10 in a dual boot configuration which should be a piece of cake in comparison I say knocking on wood.  Hopefully this will allow me to provide more first-hand assistance with Windows 10 related issues.  I installed 10 for a while last year shortly after it was officially released to experiment, but certain things did not work reliably for me so I couldn't justify running it full time.
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