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    How to clone drive to new 960 evo?

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by Alien Guy, Jan 3, 2018.

  1. Alien Guy

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    Hey All,

    Just picked up my 15R3 and am looking to add a 500gb 960 evo as the boot/gaming drive and use the 7200 TB as a music/file storage.

    Is doing a new, clean install the best way to do this or does 3rd party cloning software work just as well?
     
    Alien Guy, Jan 3, 2018
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    QUICKSORT Notebook Evangelist

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    How to:
    Go to drivers page of the Samsung 960 evo ssd, look under software for the data migration tool and install it.
    Connect both drives to your pc, select source and destination drive and do the cloning.

    I did that a couple times, it works good. Never noticed any drawback. Doing a clean install is always of course better, because it doesn't necessarily have to do with cloning being bad, but simply that your installation of windows might have been "polluted" with some junk installations, some crap in the registry and what not, which are simply the benefits of doing a re-install of windows, not necessarily installing a new drive. But of course, will take more time.
     
    QUICKSORT, Jan 4, 2018
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