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Lee Waun
I am not certain who I got the info from on this group but I want to thank
them who ever they are.
After a lot of research I have decided I am so going to skip Windows 8. I
really am happy with windows 7. Both my laptop and desktop work perfectly
with win7 as does all hardware and programs. Since it isn't broke why fix
it.
What I did decide to do is try to upgrade my laptop but not buy a new one as
all the new laptops are windows 8 now in this area.
So I decided to upgrade the laptop to an SSD from the old slow 5400rpm 750
gig Hitachi harddrive.
I have successfully upgraded this laptop to a 128 gig m4 Crucial SSD and
the performance is impressive. The SSD is running in SATA 3 mode and this
does seem like a new machine. I bought the 128 gig drive as I am only using
45 gigs of the old drive anyways so after cloning the drive I still have 74
gigs open which will last me years.
The big help I got from this group was the discussion of cloning programs
and someone here mentioned Macrium Reflect which is free for home use. It
did a fantastic job and I will in a few weeks be using it again to clone
the system drive on my I7 desktop.
Again thanks to whoever mentioned Macrium. It cloned this machines HD
perfectly.
them who ever they are.
After a lot of research I have decided I am so going to skip Windows 8. I
really am happy with windows 7. Both my laptop and desktop work perfectly
with win7 as does all hardware and programs. Since it isn't broke why fix
it.
What I did decide to do is try to upgrade my laptop but not buy a new one as
all the new laptops are windows 8 now in this area.
So I decided to upgrade the laptop to an SSD from the old slow 5400rpm 750
gig Hitachi harddrive.
I have successfully upgraded this laptop to a 128 gig m4 Crucial SSD and
the performance is impressive. The SSD is running in SATA 3 mode and this
does seem like a new machine. I bought the 128 gig drive as I am only using
45 gigs of the old drive anyways so after cloning the drive I still have 74
gigs open which will last me years.
The big help I got from this group was the discussion of cloning programs
and someone here mentioned Macrium Reflect which is free for home use. It
did a fantastic job and I will in a few weeks be using it again to clone
the system drive on my I7 desktop.
Again thanks to whoever mentioned Macrium. It cloned this machines HD
perfectly.