Trackrig wrote:
My question is how does he transfer the programs and data from the old HD to the new one? And in this case as the Gateway has been around for a few years he most likely does not have the original program discs anymore. And let's assume at the time the Gateway was loaded with the programs (let's assume MS Word, Excel & Windows Home Premium 7) that he can't download them from the software people because that was a long time ago - how does he transfer the operating systems to the new HD? Let's also assume the Gateway has a couple of USB2 ports and a read/write CD player built in.
There are a couple of ways to do so, but what I usually do is clone the existing drive using an adapter similar to the
MTECH (Amazon $3.35) above, and use an HD/SSD clone utility such as the Free
AOMEI Backupper Standard. In fact, I will need to do so shortly as I ordered a larger SSD(mSATA) drive for my DELL UltraBook, to accommodate a secondary install of WIN 10 of all things. Will basically use the same setup and software.
