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Need to Upgrade a Friend's OS Drive...How??
I need some help cloning / putting in a new OS drive for a friend please. The last time I can remember cloning a drive was with Norton Ghost running off of a floppy!!
In other words, consider me a total newbie…
He has a HP ENVY 750-247c Desktop PC with Win 10 on it (I assume Home) and his C-drive is full. He’s ordered a Samsung 500 GB Evo 860 for a replacement for his stock 128 GB OS drive.
If I remember right, I need to disconnect all drives but the OS drive. Plug in the new drive where his D drive was, and clone.
That’s my first roadblock: what utility do I use? How do I run it? I remember when HDDs use to come with a utilities CD/Floppy but I doubt that happens anymore. Is don’t even know if his optical drive works… Does Samsung have a utility for this?
I also remember that after cloning, before booting, I pull his old SSD out and plug in the new one in the same port. Yes? And hope everything is fine…
Any and all tips will be appreciate!!!
Part II:
I also remember that to make his old drive usable / conflict free as a thumbdrive, I’ll need to somehow make it inactive as a boot / OS drive.
Can I do this with my Win 7 Pro 64 system by hooking it up with a USB dongle? If so, how? I do have a hot swap SATA bay, but wouldn’t that cause a conflict on my own system? (Beside, my spare SSD won’t work in the hot swap bay; I can use it only as a USB / thumbdrive. So his old drive may not work that way, too.)
Thanks!!.
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