G'day,
My son has a Dell Optiplex. *sigh*
The SSD in it appeared to be failing, as it was no longer booting, and the diagnostics could not see it. So I helped him get a new Samsung SSD.
My problem is... Installing Win10 the first time round was an absolute nightmare. The ISO image wont fit on an optical disk, and when I tried to create a bootable USB that wouldn't work either. I frankly have no idea how I ultimately managed to get it installed... I just remember hours and days of agony trying to get the bloody thing working. (Even tried using his Win-based Laptop, to run the installer and choose the SSD when connected via a USB dock, but the Win installer would not allow me to choose an external drive..!)
When I put the old SSD into the USB docking station now, the drive mounts on my Mac Mini. (Guessing it's on its last legs) So - I was wondering if I could clone the old SSD onto the new one, including any special partitions etc that Windows may need...? Either via Terminal, or Carbon Copy Cloner?
Thanks
cosmic
My son has a Dell Optiplex. *sigh*
The SSD in it appeared to be failing, as it was no longer booting, and the diagnostics could not see it. So I helped him get a new Samsung SSD.
My problem is... Installing Win10 the first time round was an absolute nightmare. The ISO image wont fit on an optical disk, and when I tried to create a bootable USB that wouldn't work either. I frankly have no idea how I ultimately managed to get it installed... I just remember hours and days of agony trying to get the bloody thing working. (Even tried using his Win-based Laptop, to run the installer and choose the SSD when connected via a USB dock, but the Win installer would not allow me to choose an external drive..!)
When I put the old SSD into the USB docking station now, the drive mounts on my Mac Mini. (Guessing it's on its last legs) So - I was wondering if I could clone the old SSD onto the new one, including any special partitions etc that Windows may need...? Either via Terminal, or Carbon Copy Cloner?
Thanks
cosmic