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I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 7577 laptop (Windows 10, 128 GB SSD, 1TB HDD). The SSD is too small for my needs so I am upgrading to a Samsung EVO 1TV (link). I will keep the 1TB HDD as the secondary drive (D:\).
The SSD that came in the computer is the boot drive (C:\). How do I go about replacing this with the 1 TB Samsung SSD?
Will the following steps work?
1) Create new partition on the HDD, calling it E:
2) Clone the existing C: drive (128 GB SDD) to the E:\ partition
3) Modify the BIOS to boot from E:\
4) Remove the 128 SSD and replace it with the Samsung SSD
5) Boot the computer (from E:\) to start Windows
6) Clone E: to the Samsung SSD (which I assume would still be the C:\ drive)
7) Modify the BIOS to boot from C:\ (the new 1TB SSD)
Thanks for your help!
I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 7577 laptop (Windows 10, 128 GB SSD, 1TB HDD). The SSD is too small for my needs so I am upgrading to a Samsung EVO 1TV (link). I will keep the 1TB HDD as the secondary drive (D:\).
The SSD that came in the computer is the boot drive (C:\). How do I go about replacing this with the 1 TB Samsung SSD?
Will the following steps work?
1) Create new partition on the HDD, calling it E:
2) Clone the existing C: drive (128 GB SDD) to the E:\ partition
3) Modify the BIOS to boot from E:\
4) Remove the 128 SSD and replace it with the Samsung SSD
5) Boot the computer (from E:\) to start Windows
6) Clone E: to the Samsung SSD (which I assume would still be the C:\ drive)
7) Modify the BIOS to boot from C:\ (the new 1TB SSD)
Thanks for your help!