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   Mr. Man-wai Chang to Steve   
   Re: switching to solid state drive   
   23 Dec 25 22:01:26   
   
   From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com   
      
   On 19/12/2025 2:29 pm, Steve wrote:   
   >   
   > For a long time, I wanted to switch over to a solid state drive. I   
   > finally bought one a couple of months ago and finally got around to   
   > installing it last week. my current hard drive is a 1 terabyte Western   
   > Digital. The new drive is a Samsung SATA 2.5 inch 1 TB drive.   
   >   
   > I downloaded the Samsung Magician software to transfer to the new drive.   
   > When I went to use it, it showed my current drive as the source drive   
   > and prompted me install the Samsung SSD drive. It was already there.   
   > After a couple of tries, I unhooke3d the ssd and plugged it in when   
   > prompted. Nothing.   
      
      
   Stop using that Magician software. Do it after you successfully   
   installed WIndows.   
      
   You might need to unplug all SATA drives first to prevent Windows   
   installation from adding boot loader into those SATA drives.   
      
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