Installing an SSD in a laptop with Windows already installed?

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colony_people2021-07-13 06:06:40

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colony_people, 2021-07-13 06:06:40

Good afternoon. To check, you need to get it out of laptop A (the main one, drivers are installed, etc.) and insert it into laptop B for a while , then return it back later. What is the probability of its normal operation after these manipulations in laptop A
, if you create a restore point before all manipulations?
*an older version of windows 10 is installed on the ssd than required by the hardware of laptop B

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SagePtr, 2021-07-13
@colony_people

Before turning off the laptop and removing the disk, disable various features such as fast startup and hibernation. Otherwise, there is a risk that hibernation will still be used, which can harm the integrity of the file system if the disk was removed and used on another system between falling asleep and waking up (I once broke the system partition like that, I had to restore it from backup). The restore point will not save in any way, it is stored on the same volume.

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Artem @Jump, 2021-07-13
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What is the probability of its normal operation after these manipulations in laptop A, if you
create a restore point before all the manipulations?

In this situation, in case of problems, only a backup will help, a restore point will not help in any way.
A restore point is just a shadow copy - if you move the disk to another computer, it will be deleted, if there are problems with the disk, it will be corrupted.

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Drno, 2021-07-13
@Drno

Make a full backup to an external drive. the whole system.
You rearrange the disk - Windows will give an error that it cannot boot, run auto restore at boot. Should work.
Well, then in the reverse order.
If something happens, then restore the backup

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rPman, 2021-07-13
@rPman

Different chipsets on different motherboards means different controllers, I'm not sure about modern hardware, but the previous generation had incompatible disk controller drivers, and when you try, for example, from an intel machine to start the system on amd (or vice versa), it caused a blue screen of death.
The solution is to remove / disable the disk controller drivers, replacing them with the standard one.
Another option is to switch the disk to ide mode in bios, but this method will not give guarantees.
Make a restore point, this will allow you to roll back the disk when you return the disk back, but it’s better, of course, to make a backup copy of the system, this will give more guarantees that you can return it as it was.