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      12-13-2022, 09:46 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by tranquility View Post
Thanks all for your advice. I firmly believe in the KISS principle, so the less steps the better, esp since I"m an IT noob. Given that I could get a SSD for <$100? and a decent laptop is supposedly higher than my $500 budget, I'd rather go w the former. I think that I should do the following then? Please lemme know if I'm missing something:

1. just try to save whatever data I want onto another storage (to hopefully avoid getting an external case)

2. get a new USB drive to install the Win10 stuff

3. buy a SSD and do the physical replacement

4. switch it back on and insert the USB drive to install Win10

PRESTO, done and done?
No. Not done. You will then need to transfer the data back onto the computer. If you have installed any other programs onto your old laptop, if you want those programs on the new computer you will need to reinstall them on your new computer. So there's some more.

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