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I'm startng my project to replace the 1TB system drive on my self-build PC today, doing a clean install of Windws at the same time. The 1TB PCIe M.2 NVME SSD is in good nick, but my laptop only has a 256GB one, so the 1TB one is going to the laptop and I'm replacing it with a 2TB one which is a bit faster (Crucial P5 Plus).
Good luck! You could take some photos of the guts of it. I haven’t done a PC self build for a long time, blame it on Apple. Even a Hackintosh isn’t feasible as you can’t buy the Apple silicon processors unless there’s a compatible ARM processor for the MacOS. I’m done with Intel on Mac - too slow for photo AI processing without a decent GPU.
It's actually not that difficult, in theory! I've done it before - replacing the original SATA SSD with the PCIe SSD.
The setup isn't very cutting edge any more - I've had the CPU and motherboard for about four years. AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6 cores, 12 threads) CPU, 32GB RAM (but space for an extra 32GB), AMD B450M chipset, so only PCIe3 rather than PCIe4, and my recently added RTX 3060 12GB GPU.
When I clone drives or upgrade my system drives to a larger one I use this, insert source and new drives and one button press. Not sure if an PCIe M.2 NVME SSD adapter is available though. They make life so easy.
You can get USB housings for M.2 drives, but unless I end up with a spare card, I probably don't need one. Fingers crossed my laptop has two slots so the old 256GB card can remain in the laptop.
Nice job Ian. It's amazing how dirty fans can get and it's always on the underside of the blades where you can't see properly. I get my brushes, blower and vacuum cleaner out every six months to give everything a good clean out, especially the fans and the processor cooling fins. (dust with brush and use a Rocket Blower for the processor heat sing fins, all whilst having the vacuum cleaner clearing the air).
I'm up and running on the clean-reinstalled PC - it went very smoothly indeed. The only hiccup was me being flummoxed by my main monitor not displaying anything - luckily I thought to switch on the secondary display, which is the default when the card is running via it's Windows driver
Now I'm reinstalling the apps that Windows doesn't and re-syncing my files from the Cloud (MS OneDrive). I also have some backed-up files to restore.
The next task is to disassemble my trusty 7-year old laptop (Acer Swift SF314-52G, 8GB DDR3 (maximum), CPU Intel Core i5-8250U 4 cores/8 threads, nVidia MX150 GPU with 2GB DDR5 VRAM) and replace the existing 256GB M.2 C:drive card with the 1TB one from my desktop PC that I replaced yesterday.
It will be interesting to open up the laptop once again as I have read that it has a second M.2 slot, in which case, I can retain the 256GB card as a supplementary onboard drive. I say 'again' - I actually bought my laptop cheap with a German keyboard and replaced the keyboard with a QWERTY one
All looks good. I like doing this sort of stuff when it’s going well. When it doesn’t I’m tearing my hair out - what’s left of it!
We’ve got an old PC running Windows 8. I’ve been looking at upgrading it to Windows 11 but I don’t think the hardware is supported. So it might end up upgraded with an SSD and installed as a Linux PC and we’ll have to buy a new system for the Windows stuff, perhaps a laptop. My other half won’t do her stuff on Macs
All looks good. I like doing this sort of stuff when it’s going well. When it doesn’t I’m tearing my hair out - what’s left of it!
We’ve got an old PC running Windows 8. I’ve been looking at upgrading it to Windows 11 but I don’t think the hardware is supported. So it might end up upgraded with an SSD and installed as a Linux PC and we’ll have to buy a new system for the Windows stuff, perhaps a laptop. My other half won’t do her stuff on Macs
Bill
Put Windows 10 on it? An SSD is the way to go.
I'm enjoying the tinkering too, though I have a lot to sync back from the cloud (OneDrive) (700GB!) - it's been a bit buggy as OneDrive has frozen a couple of times, but we're on the final stretch with just about 100GB to go. As I now have double the space, I'm syncing everything to the local drive, so nothing will be just 'on-demand'.
I'll do th laptop later in the week. I'm quite busy tomorrow - can't think why!
Maybe upgrade it to W10, get that registered properly, finally swap to SSD and re-validate the new install via your Microsoft account.
If you do it in that order, everything should work OK.
After that dual boot to W10 & Linux
Thanks. Where to buy a valid Windows 10 license though? I had a look and thought MS were not selling them any more now 11 is out and there are plenty of dodgy sellers of these things on Amazon I think. I will investigate more. I can still download the Win 10 OS and then register it later.
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