I'll be away from work for a month soon and can just take my laptop with me. This one is very very lame. I have a SSD installed in my PC on which my PC is running (programs, games, etc.).
Now my question: Can I expand this SSD and install it in my laptop so it runs faster then?
Later, when I'm back home, I would of course like to put it back in my PC and continue to use it as normal. Can this cause any damage or is that easily possible?
Let it be.
Windows will have massive issues with activation / licenses
You will get massive driver problems
An SSD does not cost much, you can transfer the contents of the notebook HDD safely to an SSD with imaging programs.
That will not do. The laptop has a completely different hardware than your PC. It will then need other drivers that need to be installed first. The built-in processor and graphics cards are different. Even Windows itself should complain because a very different hardware is detected and Windows then locks (because a pirated copy is suspected).
The only way (cumbersome) would be to pull a system backup from the PC to an external hard drive, the same from the laptop. Then install SSD in laptop and restore system backup of the laptop to the SSD. (Now ALL data of the PC will be overwritten). Rebuild SSD again and restore the PC's system backup (laptop data is now overwritten). All this is much too complicated and uncertain.
How about a new SSD? There are already for 60 euro (512 GB).
You can install it in the laptop, it will not break.
However, it may be that the laptop sometimes crashes or does not even start.
Because Windows activates all drivers at boot time and does not activate them until Windows has identified all hardware parts. Wrong drivers can lead to abrupt drops.
However, I have often even passed my SSD between many different PCs around and never had major problems. At the most that times the Lan port or so does not work and I had to install the appropriate drivers first.
That's really awkward. But unfortunately I have no time to get a new SSD. Install this and then rebuild the laptop. Therefore, I thought it would be easiest to swap the hard drive
I'll probably just give it a try and hope that nothing really goes wrong (including files, etc.)
