Recent content by daflyboys

Thanks to everyone who responded. I'm going to look through it all again and I appreciate the help in making a decision.

Original thinking was put Windows 10 on the new 1 TB SSD. I guess I just don't understand how it will boot up. I have my original PC with W10 but I'm guessing I can't use that serial product key to put W10 on my new PC? Stuff perplexes me as I just don't do it enough. I'm really more in need...

I've used macrium successfully once, but that was going from a standard spinny SATA HDD to an SSD. Here I'm swapping out one SSD for another. I guess I could macrium it to an external 1 TB I have and then macrium that back to the new SSD? (I suck with this kind of stuff.)

Valid point for sure. Ya, it's not horrible, so maybe if there's a way to clone in the early going here to the new drive, that would be easier. But still not sure how I do that quite yet.

Thanks, but hoping I don't get stuck with W11. Talked with HP support and they indicated it would be compatible with W10, but suggested that W10 already be on that drive when I install it. Stated this model has two M.2 expansion slots: Not sure what this means quite yet or from which it...

Good question and need to look into it. It's this HP Victus: https://www.costco.com/hp-victus-gaming-desktop---amd-ryzen-7-5700g---radeon-rx-6600xt.product.4000056482.html

Just got a prebuilt with Windows 11 (reallllly don't like they force you to use a M$ account to set up, but not unexpected). The SSD drive is only 500 GBs and slower. Bought a 1 TB drive on back order and wanting to swap that in, but I want to boot from Windows 10. I'm assuming I need to...