On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote:
> Woops. Forgot the reply to Matthias... > > On Monday, March 18, 2013 10:51:41, Matthias Johnson wrote: > [...] > > So assuming you don't want to be bothered with the complexity of putting > 8 > > in a VM which an OEM license may not legally allow: Now that you made a > > backup using Clonezilla or Windows put the new SSD in and restore from > your > > backup to see if this actually worked. Windows should generally be ok > with > > restoring and booting an SSD. From the bit that I understand changing > hard > > drives will not force a Windows reactivation your only snag may be > drivers > > understanding the SSD but I have not run into this problem the few times > I > > have done this. Now install Linux as a dual boot. > > SSD drives are typically quite a bit smaller in storage space and IIRC Win8 > takes up something like 40 GB minimum. Win8 + Linux on an SSD (depending > on > the storage size) might not be a comfortable fit. Other than that possible > caveat it sounds like the right idea though. ;-) > > > I didn't cheap-out too badly in this direction and got a 256Gb Crucial M4 unit. It's 1/3 the space of the original HD but I think it will be quite sufficient. My Ancient Dell currently sports two internal drives (the original 80Gb replaced YEARS ago) C: 250G / 150 used E: 80G / 50 used (this was the original C the box was born with) G: 1Tb / 500G used MyBook USB drive used primarily for backups of everything on drives C and E C might be actually physically larger than that as it also has Linux on it - which I can't really get to now given all the graphics issues and all. I am pretty unconcerned about SSD space though - it should be good. JC (Writing this took more than 15 minutes on the Dell - it's THAT slow now.) -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life.
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