(October 30, 2021 at 3:26 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Okay, so I found a solid state external hard drive. Does anyone have any recommendations for software to do the copying? It seems like I can just do that with software that already exists on my computer. Like, I remember doing this years and years ago and not needing software.
Should I do that or get software?
I have never been quite sure about this but I have looked into it before... because I've got an SSD as well for my laptop so since they don't last forever the need to replace them is going to come up sooner or later. Granted that would be many years from now, but still in principle I want to know how it's done. Basically it seems to come down to whether you want to clone the drive or not. I don't think Windows 10 can fully clone drives, but it does have some sort of backup/recovery solution. I think you'd have to look to third party backup software if you want to go the cloning route... I did find some that offered it but I can't remember their names I'm afraid... the difference being that that would make a byte for byte copy of your drive, so that you would not need to reinstall any software or data, whereas I'm not sure how much you'd have to reinstall if you went another route. Wish I could be more specific but that's at least the gist of what I understand the issues to be.
