Copying contents of hard drive.

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I am looking to replace my old hard drive with a new ssd and have a few questions. Will i be able to entirely copy my current hard drive as is, with windows installation, drivers ect to the new hard drive. Can i do this without having to buy hardware (pc only has regular hard drive connections). Are there any major disadvantages to doing this (apart from copying viruses).

Also, i have been told that Samsung 850 Evo is the way to go for SSD. Is this true or is there a better option. Is it worth looking at newer PCIE drives (not sure if they'll run on my old z77 mobo).

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Yes... it would be easy but there are a few things you need to understand. Unless you don't have any software to reinstall it's recommended to just go...
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As long as you get an 850 that is a larger capacity than what you need to transfer you should be fine. The 850 Evo is a very good SSD.

As mentioned above though you will need to use a cloning software to successfully move accross the OS and other applications.
 
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Yes... it would be easy but there are a few things you need to understand. Unless you don't have any software to reinstall it's recommended to just go ahead with a fresh, new install of everything. Also, you won't have the problems of having the cloning software breakup your new SSD into partitions to fit your old installation/copy of Windows.
 
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