Noobie question sorry
I recently upgraded my old laptops SSD back in April. It was a placeholder until I bought an actual gaming laptop yesterday. I never upgraded the old laptop to Windows 11. The new laptop has a 512GB SSD and comes with Windows 11.
Is it possible to swap out the old SSD and transfer my old 1TB SSD with everything on it to the new laptop. I don’t know if I should upgrade my old laptop to Windows 11 real quick then transfer or simply just take out and insert the old SSD into the new one.
For reference:
Old Laptop: MSI GF63 Thin 10SC
New Laptop: Acer - Predator Helios Neo 16" WUXGA 165Hz IPS Gaming Laptop - Intel i5-13500HX – GeForce RTX 4050 with 16GB DDR5– 512GB SSD
My 1TB SSD: Intel 670p Series M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 QLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) SSDPEKNU010TZX1
I would avoid doing it that way. However, you can put it in a USB drive enclosure (available at any office or computer store) and then access all the data as an external drive. The nice thing about this is you can move your data (documents, pictures, video, etc) to your new computer and then once you are sure you have all your data, you can then clear the drive and use it as a external/USB drive.
I have several drive from old laptops that I do that with.