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| 1331336 |
2013-03-05 05:38:00 |
Interesting article in this month's PCWorld on SSDs but it pre-supposes cloning your present hard drive to the SSD. From what I have read this may be a hazardous undertaking under Windows8 which has EFI rather than a BIOS, leaving you with a dead machine that will not boot. Any comments?
Roger |
rogerj (10844) |
| 1331337 |
2013-03-05 05:50:00 |
Windows 8 has neither EFI nor BIOS, it merely supports both ;) |
pcuser42 (130) |
| 1331338 |
2013-03-05 21:04:00 |
Yep, plus there's no risk when cloning providing you dont do anything to the old drive until you have confirmed the new one is all 100% working. |
dugimodo (138) |
| 1331339 |
2013-03-05 22:03:00 |
No windows system has a BIOS, a computer has a BIOS and new PC's have EFI which is like a BIOS on steroids, however Windows 8 does have activation tied in with the EFI from what I understand which is where the cloning of disks may leave you with an unbootable system.... |
SolMiester (139) |
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