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Hi I’ve got a dell Vostro 430 with windows 7, it’s about 8 year old, two weeks ago the internal dvd which I use on a weekly basis suddenly stopped working, it would make noises like it was trying to spin up but never manage it so after deciding it was probably old age I bought an external usb3...

Yeah I will definitely need one of those, thanks for help

I've changed the secondary drive since I bought the PC so the system reserve must be on the os drive. It's a dell vostro 430 so it's a mini tower I think . Cheers for the running order

Could just buying mounting bracket separate I guess lol, still doesn't answer my original question though of the actually physical process involved in cloning

I thought Samsung had stop selling them with the kit , would be looking for around 250gb size. No Samsung kits are leaping out at me

Yeah I've read about the drive size and used space cheers, it was the fact the Kingston drive came in kit form with everything you'd need for desktop installation that attracted me to it but I'm not dead set on it

im considering buying a kingston V300 SSD just got a question regarding the cloning procedure. my desktop pc has two internal hardrives os drive c and data drive d. would the procedure for cloning the os drive onto the new ssd be this... shut down pc disconnect data drive and connect new...

ps its an i7 860 @ 2.8ghz

hi, my cpu fan has started to make a warbling droning noise even while not under load. never replaced this part before so looking for some advice. the dell component part for the fan and heatsink is 33NRX and are readily and cheaply available on ebay etc however since the original fan has...