I have two Acer Aspire laptops with a single HDD bay, going to upgrade to a 860 EVO SSD.
I dont have a SATA to USB cable, but I have a WD 3TB external drive to copy the drive to first via USB.
My question is, can I clone the existing drive from saving a system image on the WD external drive? I would use either Macrium or Easeus.
I'm not able to attach the new SSD until I save the existing drive, so no direct swap.
Sorry if this sounds basic, but trying to clone without directly going from old drive to new drive...don't have the necessary cable...trying to do this tonight.
Thanks.
I dont have a SATA to USB cable, but I have a WD 3TB external drive to copy the drive to first via USB.
My question is, can I clone the existing drive from saving a system image on the WD external drive? I would use either Macrium or Easeus.
I'm not able to attach the new SSD until I save the existing drive, so no direct swap.
Sorry if this sounds basic, but trying to clone without directly going from old drive to new drive...don't have the necessary cable...trying to do this tonight.
Thanks.