So. Back to the W8 to W11 transfer

Tim Lamb · 2024-02-06T16:27:01+00:00

With the tax return returned, the Internet connection restored, Wife's birthday celebrated, I am back to the job of upgrading my PC.I found a local group who would do the job for £150 so those contributing can put a value on their advice:-) They would have both m/c.s plus the necessary passwords. The process seems to be to have both sets running W8, do the transfer and then re-upgrade the new box to W11. Alternatively if this is not practicable to simply copy files across.Having already paid for a W11 m/c I am twitchy about any licensing issues.TNP advocated retaining the old box. Apart from having to swap the display, I now have keyboards/mice/etc. so this could work.My data is backed up to a hard drive anyway.Any thoughts in words I might understand?Breaking news, Harpenden, 3 miles up the road, is to get 1000/Mbps under project Gigabit!

Feb 06, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 42 Replies

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Tim Lamb 2 years ago

Ah well! I'm not that brave. Probably be a big cloud of dust if I opened this one:-)

Not been back to try yet but the plan is to have both m/cs running on the local net and arrange the access permissions so I can re-save files in W11. I have some instructions from

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wasbit 2 years ago

Agreed. I use a Startech Satdock25u

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John Rumm 2 years ago

When in my office, I have a dual bay dock by Icy Box that has its own PSU - so can run a pair of 3.5" HDDs if needed.

If I am on site cloning a SSD then I normally use a Sandberg one which I find to be fast and reliable:

https://sandberg.world/en-gb/product/USB-3.0-to-SATA-Link

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