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‎11-28-2018 03:02 PM

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I have done it many times both ways and a successful clone is by far the best. Yes the way to do that is to remove the original HDD and attach it via a usb to sata cable. Then boot from a cloning app disk. Last clone I did I used Macrium Reflect Free. Several experts swear by it and I had never tried it but now I am a believer. Works great. A clean install is also not very hard. You can get all drivers and factory utility type apps from the C:\swsetup folder on the original hard drive. 

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‎11-28-2018 06:14 PM

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So I lazily tried to switch the boot to the cloned drive right from the BIOS (which was now showing up on there) - it didn't load windows and gave me the boot error sad face screen. I figured that would happen but I could just go back to the old setup. That unfortunately didn't work either, and I was worried that I screwed up everything. I switched the bios back to defaults (turned off Legacy) and upon restart somehow it loaded from the SSD instead and now everything is how I wanted it. lol pretty lucky I think.

 

Write speed: 947.53 MB/s
Copy speed: 789.71 MB/s
Read speed: 902.4 MB/s

 

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