Thanks to all of you for your honest and detailed replies to my questions about the cloning process. I have confidence in moving ahead with the SSD purchase and install.
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Yes, when I cloned my old drive to the new one everything was exactly as it was on the original and everything worked fine.I did have to clone each partition separately because my system had a recovery partition which will not copy correctly if you clone the whole drive. I used sector by sector for the recovery partition and regular clone for the main OS partition and all worked.
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software-ul de clonare,transfera tot ce ai pe hdd si instaleaza pe ssd!nimic in plus sau minus!cloning software, transfer all of the hdd and install the ssd!nothing more or less!
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Yes, it essentially turns the new drive into the old one. I did this on a Acer netbook and it worked fine after swapping to the cloned drive.
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It does a perfect clone of your existing drive. All operating system, applications, settings, keys, passwords and data come over automatically. Keep you r old hard drive as a backup
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The cloning software makes an identical copy of your old hard drive. If Windows 7, or Office, or anything else worked before you installed the SSD, it will operate perfectly afterwards. The "computer" does not see anything different. Just clone your hard drive which has Windows installed. And when it is finished, install the SSD. Then, button up your computer and it will boot up without your needing to do anything.Good luckJohn
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The cloning software makes an exact duplicate of the existing hard drive including OS, all installed applications, etc. No need to reauthorize existing applications, or re-validate the OS.
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No the cloning software does not "install" anything but rather makes an exact (image) copy of the old hard drive contents. If you had Windows 7, MS Ofc and others with codes then you will have them after the cloning. Think of the cloning software as a duplication piece of software. Another example of how the cloning software functions is the same as making and exact copy of a DVD or CD and just to another hard drive (SSD in this case).
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It depends on the source drive. Some Dynamically Partitioned drives, such as the ones in a lot of new HPs won't clone properly.
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heh Understood, and much more comforting to know you ran and it passed, three tests. >__>b I'm definitely interested, as this is a great deal for 16GB. Thanks for the quick response!
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Yes I did. if it don't work, download easeus data partition and partition data before you clone. I went from 1tb HDD to 512 ssd with no problems
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sometimes, i buy 3 SSD kingston, but not all the software allow me to manage the partitions to be clone at will.I will say 60% of the time works fine.
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Mine came with everything needed including cables and software. But, I used DriveImage (http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm) to do the drive-to-drive cloning since I knew it was reliable. Everything worked perfectly. Love it - much faster, even on my old laptop!
814112
Front slot is target, rear slot is source. Cloning takes anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes, depending on drive size and how much space is being used on the source drive. This thing was worth every penny!
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Please let me know if this worked out ok,,I have an Alienware M14xr2..I wouldnt mind having an ssd in
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changing the drive is easy, any SSD SATA would do. I would go about 250g or bigger if you can afford it. Don't forget to clone from the original to get all the proper drivers .
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Yes, I have upgraded mine and also switched my hybrid HD for the MX100 SSD. No hassle at all.
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I use Acronis True Image Home 2011 to clone my boot disk to the ssd drive. I did this with a Kingston HyperX 120 GB SATE III Solid State drive and it worked perfect. Tom
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No. Absolutely ZERO software for cloning, migrating, optimizing, etc.... It's really sad. NO ONE in the industry even comes close to the Samsung SSD Magician software. This is a REALLY FAST SSD though. Faster than the 840 EVO and 840 Pro.... but sometimes the add-in software makes all the difference if you're not technical. In my case, I was able to use Western Digital's branded version of Acronis TrueImage for free b/c my original boot from which I migrated was a 1TB WD Green drive.
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I bought a.256 SSD for my op system and start up.programs and used my HDD with another to.store music pics.etc....works.really well
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As long as your SSD has a SATA port that will fit in the Clone device, it will work. I have cloned from a HDD to a SSD using the CyberTech device.
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well yeah thats sort of the point with this thing. plug in power, a hard drive you want to clone, and the destination hard drive. hit the button and wait. when it tells you its finished you can install the HDD in a computer and it will work just like the old one.
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I don't know. I am not an IT expert. I bought the item just like you did and I am having issues with the SSD in my laptop and assured it would work. It first would not read the operating systen after I cloned the SSD. Now it doesn't recognize the drive. I am a little ticked at the seller as I believe they knew there was a compatibility issue and lied to me.
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A perfectly understandable decision. It was a big change for me, and you're right, I do love my Chromebook!That being said, I think it was good that you'll still be equipped for what I think is an impending "cloud revolution." I think people who spend a lot of money on giant SSD's will find themselves with some serious buyers remorse in a few years, simply because I think computing is moving in the direction of the cloud.I do hope you enjoy your new computer!
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I just added an SSD in the m2 slot and used imaging software to clone the drive. In my experience with Windows 8, it actually stores the Windows 8 key in the BIOS, so it will install with the correct key by itself (only with computers shipped with Windows 8).