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Acer E5-571 SSD upgrade help

PSenapus
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Hello,

 

I hate laptops.

 

I have in my hands an Acer E5-571 (runs windows 8) as well as a brand new Samsung 850EVO 120 and now for my next magic trick I will make you confused:

 

I have unscrewed the back of the laptop to get access to the HDD cage and I see 3 ribbon cables, how the fuck do I remove them without breaking anything?

Is there any way I can backup the recovery partition along with all drivers and shit in order to clean install windows on the new SSD?

How do I keep my license information?

 

Please help me.
 

P.S. Acer's website sucks for drivers downloading, drivers do not match the hardware on my device and such issues.

"Gerard if you're watching I'll see you at the usual spot in 10 minutes, if you know what I mean." Linus Sebastian, 2014.

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Please add a picture, it will be easier for us to tell you that way.

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you can just clone drive to drive should you have the utilities needed e.g cloning software, external hdd enclosure

 

I read that cloning the drive will make the recovery partition not work.

 

Anyway I think I have decided I'll first try to see if windows update can find all the drivers needed:

Yesterday I used the recovery to have "factory reset" of the user partition and I was impressed by the large amount of bloatware the recovery installs.  I'll get a legit private license of windows 8.1.

 

I hate laptops.

"Gerard if you're watching I'll see you at the usual spot in 10 minutes, if you know what I mean." Linus Sebastian, 2014.

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