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I have a 240GB SSD in my laptop and a 120GB in my gaming rig, and I want to swap the drives around so the 240 is in my PC and the 120 in the laptop since I only have used 66GB over the past year. Both are OS drives and I want to copy the data from one to the other. Any help on how I would do this and what software to use it would be greatly appreciated.

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Well, without another drive of some kind to clone of them onto, this will pretty much not be possible. If you have another drive that can be formatted, you can use something like Macrium Reflect to clone your desktop drive to that 3rd spare drive. Then you could clone your laptop drive to the old desktop drive, then clone the original desktop image to the old laptop drive from that 3rd disc. Musical OS's ;)

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@{EAC} Shoot em UPI have a second SSD in my system that I could use as the middle man drive (it has Steam games, Origin and Uplay on it but I should be able to move them onto my HDD. I can just move them back once I'm done right?). Any other tips you have? Nice rig and car btw. Is EAC before your name referring to EAC clan from Warthunder or something else?

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7 minutes ago, ben1000bhp said:

@{EAC} Shoot em UPI have a second SSD in my system that I could use as the middle man drive (it has Steam games, Origin and Uplay on it but I should be able to move them onto my HDD. I can just move them back once I'm done right?). Any other tips you have? Nice rig and car btw. Is EAC before your name referring to EAC clan from Warthunder or something else?

Thats the only trick I got for this situation lol. And thanks! and EAC was from long ago, I would change my name on here to LIGISTX, but they don't really allow name changes... I have been shoot em up in halo PC, xbox live, steam (mostly CS and TF2) and all the other games I have played over the years. No warthunder tho, it was just me and a few friends way back when.

Rig: i7 13700k +Contact Frame - - Asus Z790-P Wifi - - RTX 4080 - - 4x16GB 6000MHz - - Samsung 990 Pro 2TB NVMe Boot + Main Programs - - Crucial P3 2TB NVMe for photo work - - Corsair RM850x - - Sound BlasterX EA-5 - - Corsair XC8 JTC Edition - - Corsair GPU Full Cover GPU Block - - PTM 7950 - - XT45 X-Flow 420 + UT60 280 rads externally mounted - - EK XRES RGB PWM - - Fractal Define S2 - - DellAlienware AW3423DWF 34" -- Logitech Pro X Superlight - - Logitech G710+ - - LTT Northern Lights Deskpad

 

Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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