Shifting OS to New SSD For Dummies?

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Shifting OS to New SSD For Dummies?

Post by Lenny Solidus » Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:32 pm

So Amazon have ended up selling a full 1TB Samsung SSD's for just £59.99 (-29%) I thought it about high time to finally move my operating system from my older SSHD hybrid drive to a straight-up SSD. Having looked over many tutorials of how to do this however I was hoping for a few initial pointers from those with more hands-on experience.

That 1TB Samsung SSD if anyone else is in need of one...

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Re: Shifting OS to New SSD For Dummies?

Post by Hatredsheart » Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:04 am

It's easy peasy mate. Many new ssd's these days come with free migration software and instructions.
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Re: Shifting OS to New SSD For Dummies?

Post by eny » Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:18 am

I had a similar problem last year and cloned my drive successfully with free Macrium Reflect. I remember I had to do something manually in the program, so cloned it twice in the end before it stuck, but it works without further problems.


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Re: Shifting OS to New SSD For Dummies?

Post by Maturin » Mon Feb 20, 2023 3:15 pm

Yeah, Samsung's Data Migration tool moved my whole drive across to the new SSD in about 10 minutes and was really easy to use.

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