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How can I detect which Windows 8 version I have? [duplicate]

A few hours ago I bought a new ASUS N56 laptop (VZ 4215H). It has Windows 8 on the HDD, I've bought an HDD caddy and an SSD. Is there a program that can move the OS to the SSD? How can I detect ...
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I need to move Windows 10 from a hard drive to a solid state drive [duplicate]

I recently built another desktop computer with 3 drives, one of which is from my old computer. I want to move my Windows install to the new solid state drive without losing all of my files on the old ...
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Replacing hard drive of laptop having geniune windows 8 [duplicate]

I have bought a new Laptop Sony VAIO E17, it has a pre-installed windows 8 64bit. Now after using it few days I want to replace my HDD with new SSD, if I will change my hard-drive I will loss my ...
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How to install Windows 8 without the setup DVD that came with my notebook? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Free way to clone HDD to SSD? Recently I bought an Asus u32vj and decided to change from its hdd to a smaller capacity ssd. The problem is I can't figure out how to migrate ...
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How to clone an M.2 drive through a computer and USB-M.2 adapter? [duplicate]

want to upgrade the SSD size of my Laptop without reinstalling everything if possible. The laptop has an M.2. drive and I have an M.2->USB adapter (like this https://www.amazon.de/-/en/FIDECO-...
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How to clone Windows 10 Home from SATA SSD to new nVME SSD? [duplicate]

Here's my particular situation: Have a new MSI Codex R desktop which came with a 500 Gb SATA SSD with Win 10 Home. I've booted up, pulled windows update, installed my G513 Carbon keyboard driver and a ...
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Archive entire hard drive [duplicate]

How would you recommend backing up an entire hard drive? Back story: I often help others perform a clean OS installation (usually Windows) or migrate to a new hard drive. I like to begin with a full ...
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Windows 10 HDD to SSD for primary partition [duplicate]

Just upgraded boot partition to a 480gb SSD and its so much quicker, but.. Now my primary partition is divided as followed. [111.16GB System Reserved][224.53GB NTFS][111.333GB Recovery Partition] It ...
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best way to clone HDD to SSD Window 7 [duplicate]

This is really similar to this question but some of the methods did not work for me. For example Clonezilla and GParted is not booting from my USB device (created with YUMI). I was following this ...
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Win8 migration HDD to SSD [duplicate]

Can you guys instruct me how to migrate a HDD to a SSD? Also I was thinking about having ubuntu and win8 in the same SSD, 250GB each and then have the HDD for files only. I bought an MSI GT70 20C, do ...
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Creating laptop's disk drive image [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Free way to clone HDD to SSD? I have bought a new laptop and there is an original HDD which I replaced with the SSD one. I do want to make an image of the original hard drive ...
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How do I move my current Windows from an ssd to a bigger ssd? [duplicate]

So for months, I have been struggling to live with a 128 GB SSD. The available space of the drive is getting smaller and I had to uninstall some programs over time. I currently have this SSD as my C ...
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Is it possible to move win10 installation? [duplicate]

I have my win10 and various apps installed on my HDD. And I have a new SSD. Is there a way to safely move win10 to the SSD? Or the only way is to install it again?
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Hard Disk Upgrade [duplicate]

I want to upgrade my laptop hard disk but take an image of my current drive and make the new one exactly the same and bootable so that basically I just have a bigger hard disk. Can this be done - an ...
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Options for Internal SSD Upgrade [duplicate]

I currently have a 256GB internal SSD in my laptop, but it isn't enough. I have just ordered a 500GB one, and that will be enough (at least for now). I have looked up a few things on how to "...
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