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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 640812" data-attributes="member: 13090">Your new SSD should come with software that will copy over not only the OS installed on the HDD but the entire drive. The process, called cloning, will probably be something along the lines of installing and running the included software on your current hard drive. You'll then connect the SSD to your computer using a USB cable. Upon rebooting the software will clone your old hard drive onto the new SSD. Once the cloning operation is complete you replace the HDD with your new SSD and boot-up again, this time from the newly installed SSD. You should also know the cloning operation overwrites the boot-sector on the HDD rendering that drive unusable until it's reformatted. Otherwise you'd be in possession of two drives with a working install of the same operating system but only one license, and that's a no-no. You can of course reformat and repartition the HDD for use as a slave-drive for data or what have you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 640812, member: 13090"] Your new SSD should come with software that will copy over not only the OS installed on the HDD but the entire drive. The process, called [B]cloning[/B], will probably be something along the lines of installing and running the included software on your current hard drive. You'll then connect the SSD to your computer using a USB cable. Upon rebooting the software will clone your old hard drive onto the new SSD. Once the cloning operation is complete you replace the HDD with your new SSD and boot-up again, this time from the newly installed SSD. You should also know the cloning operation overwrites the boot-sector on the HDD rendering that drive unusable until it's reformatted. Otherwise you'd be in possession of two drives with a working install of the same operating system but only one license, and that's a no-no. You can of course reformat and repartition the HDD for use as a slave-drive for data or what have you. [/QUOTE]

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