How to clone my old SSD (Connected to my desktop PC motherboard) to a new Samsung 850 Evo SSD that I will use in my laptop?
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Does the old SSD currently have your laptop's Windows installation on it, or does that Windows installation belong to your desktop PC?
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Will this work in order to clone my desktop ssd to new ssd of same size?
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That doesn't answer what I'm trying to discover so I''l put it another way.
Did you install Windows on the old SSD while it was in your desktop PC or while it was in your laptop?
(and please don't send two posts before you've had a reply to the first one).
Did you install Windows on the old SSD while it was in your desktop PC or while it was in your laptop?
(and please don't send two posts before you've had a reply to the first one).
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Yes indeed. It's got all the wrong drivers installed on it for your laptop, and the registry contains hardware ID that doesn't match your laptop. You can't use that installation on your laptop whichever way you try to do it.
You have to install Windows on the computer you intend to run it on, you can't subsequently move it to another computer, whether by cloning or any other method.
You have to install Windows on the computer you intend to run it on, you can't subsequently move it to another computer, whether by cloning or any other method.
Thanks for the help. However I don't have a genuine windows installation disc or anything - this pc was built for me by the local tech shop. How will i get to do a fresh windows isntallation on the ssd? (There is a genuine copy of Windows 10 on the 750 gb HDD on the laptop though)
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"There is a genuine copy of Windows 10 on the 750 gb HDD on the laptop though"
Well that's the one you need to be cloning on to the new SSD then, except you will be struggling because its a 750GB capacity HDD, yet your new 850 Evo SSD will probably be considerably less than that - - right?
Well that's the one you need to be cloning on to the new SSD then, except you will be struggling because its a 750GB capacity HDD, yet your new 850 Evo SSD will probably be considerably less than that - - right?
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