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09-25-2020 03:49 PM
I have a hp 15-dw0023ci laptop and want to put in a larger hard drive and I have a usb cable to hard drive can I restore the drive plugged into usb I want to keep org hard drive like it is. Thanks for your help
09-25-2020 04:26 PM
I don't know what are you trying to do, but what I normally do :
1. Buy new, larger capacity HDD,
2. Put it on an enclosure (or using USB - SATA adapter),
3. Clone old HDD to new HDD using a cloning software,
4. Physically swap old HDD and new HDD,
5. Keep machine running on new HDD for few days or a week, keep old HDD as backup,
6. When happy, reformat old HDD and use it as an external HDD.
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