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I guess the first question is whether it's actually worth it? Modern laptop processors are far more efficient so much cheaper to run/much better battery life. Also better screens pretty often. What laptop is it?
You should be able to boot up from it if you put it back in. Only issue may be Windows licensing throwing up issues if you use the same key for your new install.
Booting from one of those caddies will probably fail. Personally I'd clone the hard drive and run it in a virtual machine if you ever need anything from it.
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System SKU LENOVO_MT_80NT_BU_idea_FM_Lenovo ideapad 500-15ISK
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6200U CPU @ 2.30GHz, 2401 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date LENOVO CFCN21WW(V1.03), 10/08/2015Bluetooth Core Specification 4.2
Graphics = AMD Radeon R7 M360 and ?
GPU 0
Intel(R) HD Graphics 520 Driver version: 21.20.16.4627 Driver date: 09/03/2017 DirectX version: 12 (FL 12.1) Physical location: PCI bus 0, device 2, function 0 Utilisation 2% Dedicated GPU memory Shared GPU memory 0.2/5.9 GB GPU Memory 0.2/5.9 GBGPU 1
AMD Radeon(TM) R7 M360 Driver version: 15.201.1001.1002 Driver date: 14/08/2015 DirectX version: 12 (FL 11.1) Physical location: PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0 Utilisation 0% Dedicated GPU memory 0.0/2.0 GB Shared GPU memory 0.0/5.9 GB GPU Memory 0.0/7.9 GB
hugo7
I want to upgrade my old laptop which used to be my folks and have some questions.
I want to:
Questions:
A. If I keep the old HDD can it just be popped back in anytime in the possible but rare situation my folks need something from it, or even better can I keep it in one of those caddies and boot from it if I hit esc or whatever on startup
B. Is there a particular order I should do everything? Ram > SSD > graphics software
C. Is there anything else I need to think about?
Cheers.