[SOLVED] Another HDD to SSD cloning question.

[mactronix]

Hello people,
I have an old, and I mean old as in first day or release W7 system, with the launch of W11 coming soon I was considering finally doing the upgrade to W10.
What I plan to do is as follows.
Buy a new 1 TB SSD and use a cloning docking station to copy my existing 1TB HDD.
Put the cloned SSD into the system and then chance my arm and see if I can get it to update to W10 for free.
This sounds way to easy so, am I missing something simple here ?
I am working on the assumption that should the new SSD not work/boot I still have a 1TB SSD to go into the inevitable new build that will be coming soon, and that I could just put the old drive back in as before.

Thanks in advance

Mactronix

 

[USAFRet]

You're trying to do too many things at once.

What drive size/type is the current ancient Win 7 on?
What are the full specs of this system?

 

[USAFRet]

Oh, and ignore the Win 11 thing.
That is months down the road.

 

[mactronix]

Hello ,
Thanks for replying.
The system is a Phenom X2 555 with 8GB Ram.
I have dual booted it with W10 before so I have no doubts as to its ability to run W10 if that was a concern you had.
The drive now is a 1TB SATA Hard Drive.

Mactronix

 

[USAFRet]

Hello ,
Thanks for replying.
The system is a Phenom X2 555 with 8GB Ram.
I have dual booted it with W10 before so I have no doubts as to its ability to run W10 if that was a concern you had.
The drive now is a 1TB SATA Hard Drive.

Mactronix

Right.
You can either:

Upgrade the current Win 7 to Win 10, and then clone to a different drive.
or
Clone the Win 7 to a different drive, and then upgrade it to 10.

Can't do both at the same time.


And that CPU is highly unlikely to be viable for Win 11, so disregard that completely.

 

[mactronix]

Maybe I was little unclear with my initial post,
Your second option is basically what I was asking if I could do.
Just didn't know if there were any hidden issues I needed to know about.

The fact that its never going to run W11 is why I'm looking at doing this.
A whole new system is well over due.
Its not sinking money into a near obsolete system if the new parts will be reused later, that's my logic anyway.

Thanks for helping

Mactronix

 

[USAFRet]

A new system will need a new OS install anyway.
You can't take this OS drive, no matter which OS is on it, into a new system.