On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 4:38 PM Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Mark, welcome back! :-) >
Hey Mick. Thanks for the welcome. <SNIP> > This will take for-ever on larger disks as it will be copying all empty bits > and bytes. Instead you may wish to try clonezilla, or partclone. > > https://clonezilla.org/ > > Clonezilla Live will copy the whole disk or selected partitions along with > their UUIDs, so Win10 should have no idea it was just migrated. ;-) > > You'll need a USB/eSATA caddy to put your new drive in and connect it to the > candidate laptop, or fit both drives in your desktop and perform the cloning > there. Here's the step-by-step instructions you asked for: > > https://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php > Good point about the amount of time. I'll investigate. If the SSD came up as activated that would be a big win as it hasn't happened on it's own with the new install. Thanks! Cheers, Mark