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Hard drive upgrade to SSD
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Send message Joined: 12 Nov 21 Posts: 236 Credit: 575,038,236 RAC: 0 |
OK gang. I have a shiny new SSD ready to install. i have suspended all tasks not already started, and will let running tasks finish to completion. As far as MW@home is concerned, what else do I need to do? Can I move the suspended task to the new hard drive? Should I abort them? The old spinning rust is coming completely out. |
Send message Joined: 3 Mar 13 Posts: 84 Credit: 779,527,712 RAC: 0 |
For me, I would run all tasks and make shure everything is uploaded and reported first. |
Send message Joined: 24 Jan 11 Posts: 713 Credit: 554,688,704 RAC: 38,847 |
If you stop BOINC and just clone the hard drive to the SSD, BOINC is none the wiser when you start it up again. Just un-suspend your cached work and proceed as usual. If the new SSD is going to be a different system drive label like changing from C:\ to D:\ then you probably need to reinstall BOINC and go through the configuration where you tell BOINC where its DATA directory is located. |
Send message Joined: 2 Oct 16 Posts: 167 Credit: 1,008,057,133 RAC: 17,008 |
Just clone the HDD https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/clone-larger-hdd-to-smaller-ssd.html |
Send message Joined: 18 Apr 09 Posts: 7 Credit: 5,005,579 RAC: 0 |
. . . and you clone all the rubbish on the hard disk. |
Send message Joined: 2 Oct 16 Posts: 167 Credit: 1,008,057,133 RAC: 17,008 |
Its an easy to use piece of software. No fuss and can be done from w/in windows. If a user is asking those questions then something simple is needed. Copying 'garbage' and keeping the PC as similar as possible is probably more useful and easier to them then a clean install. Judging the question, credit and RAC this seems more like something in their capability. |
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