So I wanted to enhance performance on the new Lenovo x230 laptop. It came with a 500GB HDD. I decided a Samsung 840 - 250 GB SSD would be a good upgrade for speed, battery life and cooler temps. I had ...

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Creating a complete backup of your hard drive by cloning it is never a bad idea. Hardware can fail, and it's a pain losing your data. There are also times where you'd like to swap out a hard drive — ...

I am trying to clone a spinning HD to SSD in a Windows 7 laptop, both harddrives are installed. My first choice was Macrium Reflect, but after installing, well, I don't know where it installed to, so ...

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One way to speed up your computer is by swapping out your optical hard drive for a solid-state drive (an SSD). There’s a significant speed difference in this swap, because you’re moving from the ...

Cloning a drive saves time in that it creates a twin of whatever is on your existing system. Once the drive is cloned, you can pop the new drive into your system and be up and running with all your ...

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