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Originally Posted by PoolBrews
Most new SSD drives (Solid State Drive) come with free software to clone your existing drive. I have done this for a number of friends. You get a drive for around $40-$50, and an external case for $10. Put the new drive in the case, plug it into a USB port, run the software that came with the drive, and you will have a clone in an hour or so depending on the amount of data.
You then swap the drive in the case for the drive in the computer, and you're up and running. In addition, you now have an external hard drive!
Caution: When moving to a new computer, you shouldn't use this technique as the new computer most likely has different hardware and will need new drivers. This technique is for upgrading an existing PC.
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That is interesting. But, if both hard drives have Windows 10 on them, I don't think you can use the external drive to boot up on another computer without violating the Windows 10 license agreement. Windows uses a computer fingerprint process to enforce the license by identifying the exact computer where the software is being used. Also, I suspect that the cloning process may not work with Windows 11 because of their new hardware based security processes that do not reside on the hard drive.