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I've got a few questions. I'm thinking about upgrading to a SSD. I have an Alienware 17 that I just got this summer and it has a mSATA port and two 2.5" HDD ports (both of which I use) so I was thinking of installing a mSATA SSD. Since it is a windows 8 PC I don't really have the ability to re-install windows on a different hard drive without buying a new copy of windows 8. So how exactly could I go about cloning my hard drive? And I looked a little bit into cloning on my own (didn't quite know where to look), and one website said that the two hard drives must be the same size. Is this true? I've got separate partitions for recovery or whatever, can I copy those too? And what the heck's gonna happen with secure boot? I also have the ability to create a factory re-install disk, but I'll need to use it with the original hard drive with those partitions on it. If I get the process started, is it possible that I'll be able to reinstall onto a different hard drive?
Also, is this a decent mSATA disk? Any reasons to go with a different one than this?
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Also, is this a decent mSATA disk? Any reasons to go with a different one than this?
accessories.us.dell.com/sn...