I need to upgrade my ssd (Win7) boot drive to a larger capacity as I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel now. It's an old 80gb which I'll be replacing with a 250gb ssd.
I've been looking for thorough cloning/migration guides which cover this subject but can't seem to find defacto versions which offer the exact task I'm looking for. I.e. I'm replacing the OS ssd boot drive and replacing it with another ssd drive. I'd also like to do this without buying any additional software, such as Acronis.
Another worry is the whole 'creating a clone of a system while it is already running'. Is this safe to do? Wouldn't some system files be locked and therefore be unable to be copied?
Any help much appreciated.
Edit. It's just struck me that this might also be suited to the software thread? However it's also about hardware.. If needed could a mod move it? Sorry for the confusion! It kinda fits both places.
I've been looking for thorough cloning/migration guides which cover this subject but can't seem to find defacto versions which offer the exact task I'm looking for. I.e. I'm replacing the OS ssd boot drive and replacing it with another ssd drive. I'd also like to do this without buying any additional software, such as Acronis.
Another worry is the whole 'creating a clone of a system while it is already running'. Is this safe to do? Wouldn't some system files be locked and therefore be unable to be copied?
Any help much appreciated.
Edit. It's just struck me that this might also be suited to the software thread? However it's also about hardware.. If needed could a mod move it? Sorry for the confusion! It kinda fits both places.
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