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The Samsung Evo 860s are quite easy to use. As long as you have a SATA type drive - this should work. The easiest way to copy your old drive to the SSD is to purchase a USB to SATA cable (which will allow you to plug the Samsung drive into a USB port. Then go to Samsung's website for SSDs and download their data transfer utility. It will completely copy the old drive to the Samsung - and then you can connect it inside the machine where the old drive was a boot it up. Drive access should be about 30 times as fast with the SSD. One trick.......to make it copy reliably and faster - run a chkdsk c: /F from an elevated command prompt at least once on your PC before you start. It should repair any FAT or DET errors on the drive. When you open the command prompt (click in the search box and type cmd and when you see the command prompt icon either select Run As Administrator in the right pane - or right click on the command prompt icon and choose run as administrator. Then when the DOS box (command window) opens type chkdsk C: /F - it will tell you the drive is mounted or locked - and ask if you want to run the chkdsk next time the machine is restarted. Type Y or Yes and hit Enter. Then restart the PC and let it run through the check disk on bootup. If it finds a LOT of errors - you may want to repeat the process. You can also save some time in the copy by running a Disk Cleanup and letting it delete temp files, etc before you start the data migration utility from Samsung. You will also find that if your current drive is in IDE or Raid mode in CMOS - you can google how to change to AHCI - using safeboot or minimal boot - then changing from RAID or IDE to AHCI once you have booted in safeboot. An SSD will have the fastest data transfer in AHCI but will still run well even if you do not do this.
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