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Hey guys. So i had just copied the ssd in the enclosure to my external hard drive. Its 232gb total and about 150gb used so 82gb free. It was taking about 2 hours... but then as it was say 80 percent finished, that message was no longer there. I then checked my external hard drive and it only copied about 54gb to it. I know this because my external had about 919gb free out of 931gb.
I then went into the external hard drive and noticed not all folders were copied. I then just copy and pasted each folder that was not in the external hard drive. I did this with all and all that is used up was 54gb total. Does anyone know why? However, i took a look and the files that i wanted to transfer to my external are there. But i have no idea what the other 96gb is?
Nobody can help you with this because nobody knows what you want to copy, what you should copy, what you think you copied, what your folder structure is, where you keep stuff, or any of that.
The best you can do is to look on the external and see if you can actually find and open any file you cared about that was originally on the SSD.
About the why don't i just power up my new laptop first... well when you get a new laptop, you plug in power then power it up. But when you do this, im pretty certain it ask you to install windows.
Tell us in words of one syllable why you are "pretty certain" of that.
Has that ever happened to you?
Have you ever bought a laptop?
I want to have the ssd replaced first then start it up right?
Not if you have good sense.
Because let say i do start it up, i certainly am not doing the installation right?
That's correct. As far as I can tell, you shouldn't be installing anything.
But is there a way to properly shut it down?
You tell me. Have you ever properly shut a computer down?
Because everytime i ever got a new computer, i made sure i set it up correctly by following all instructions. So you want me to turn on laptop and it works... how do you want me to shut it down properly?
You tell me. Have you ever properly shut a computer down?
Or do you want me to just do the installation myself with the hard drive as it is. Then go there and ask them, okay i need to replace the hard drive to ssd?
Install what? You bought a Dell PC with Windows 10 and Windows 10 is not already installed?
Suppose Windows 10 is NOT already installed. How in the world are you going to install it if you are unclear about how to turn a PC on and off?
You need to look at my post 37. The end of it. Concentrate on those 4 things, one at a time.