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    Switching SSD from one laptop to another.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by AnimalMother, Apr 2, 2014.

  1. AnimalMother

    AnimalMother Notebook Evangelist

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    I have 2 laptops.
    One laptop is actually a ultrabook and has an HDD and the other laptop, my stationary gaming laptop has an SSD.
    I want to switch the SSD From the stationary gaming laptop to the ultrabook and put the HDD in gaming laptop.
    I want the data to remain the same on both machines. How can i do this? Will i need a third storage device? I plan on migrating the data to the ssd but how do i clone the image of the hdd then migrate?

    I hope you can understand. Im not sure how to do this. Each machine i wan the same data.
     
    AnimalMother, Apr 2, 2014
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    Buy an external HDD (USB 3.0) and put your data there first before you regret it.

    Then, the best way forward is to re-install Windows 'clean'. The different drivers and other specific settings may cause you problems you may regret between the two different systems.

    Good luck.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Apr 2, 2014
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  3. un4tural

    un4tural Notebook Evangelist

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    Can't switch them out, as it would cause windows not to boot due to hardware incompatibility. Easiest would be to switch them out then install windows on top of old ones, and install the drivers and software on top, however it would cause a lot of trash to remain.

    More complex and time consuming option would be as mentioned above to get an external hdd and back everything up then clean install on both. But at least it would be done properly.

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    un4tural, Apr 5, 2014
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  4. qweryuiop

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    more sensible approach is to clone the whole system in the SSD into the HDD that is formatted, then insert the HDD into the gaming laptop so the gaming laptop keeps all its original data and drivers etc.

    then you clean the SSD and reinstall windows on your ultrabook, if you do the other way round having an OS in the HDD cloned to an SSD, you might have a bad time with misaligned partition and other optimisations that are not done properly, but if you insist, use macrium reflect to creat an image of both system in a 3rd hdd, format and switch the drives, then restore the image onto the drives respectively, just make sure before creating system images the partitions in the hdd has a total volume of under what the SSD has in terms of capacity

    P.S. data is better stored in a HDD whilst programs/software is better stored(installed) on an SSD
     
    qweryuiop, Apr 5, 2014
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