I have a 2ish-year-old HP Pavilion Laptop (15-eg0070wm) that has upgraded RAM and M.2 SSD drive (32GB and 2TB respectively)... I dropped the laptop by accident a few weeks ago and ended up with a roughly 6" (15.24cm) scratch on it... it's not too bad and not overly noticeable (most of the time) but the system fan sounds like a Jet Engine 70-90% of the time now and the screen has shut itself off without warning a few times (making me hold the power button until I kill it to start it again). The RAM and SSD upgrades weren't that long ago so I figured I could buy a new laptop where those are compatible and save money. Buying say a system with 8GB of RAM and use mine instead (same with Hard Drive). I found a nice Dell Inspiron system where the above are both compatible and happened to be talking to a friend who said he had a Dell computer he doesn't use (it's the Latitude [Business] version of the same system I was looking at). He shipped me the laptop from Canada and I got it today.
Now, here's my dilemma... I have WAY too much software/files/etc on my HP that I have to keep... I have Macrium Reflect installed and have full backups on my NAS. I uninstalled all HP-specific stuff from the laptop and debated if I should just stick the drive into the Dell and hope the drivers sort themselves out. Maybe do an in-place upgrade of Windows after the fact to see if that helps/fixes anything and just continue like nothing happened? I had thought about dump the 2TB drive, install a fresh Windows 11 on it, and than restore the backup, but I assume that would carry over any of the problems I'd have doing a direct drive swap would and just waste extra time.
Being the Dell is a Latitude and not an Inspiron I assume it was Windows 10/11 Pro and not Home... my HP is 11 Pro... between the two systems, there are 2 licenses already, but I'm willing to buy a new Windows 11 Pro if I have to.
How would you guys go about this to keep as much info/files with as little of a headache as possible?
Now, here's my dilemma... I have WAY too much software/files/etc on my HP that I have to keep... I have Macrium Reflect installed and have full backups on my NAS. I uninstalled all HP-specific stuff from the laptop and debated if I should just stick the drive into the Dell and hope the drivers sort themselves out. Maybe do an in-place upgrade of Windows after the fact to see if that helps/fixes anything and just continue like nothing happened? I had thought about dump the 2TB drive, install a fresh Windows 11 on it, and than restore the backup, but I assume that would carry over any of the problems I'd have doing a direct drive swap would and just waste extra time.
Being the Dell is a Latitude and not an Inspiron I assume it was Windows 10/11 Pro and not Home... my HP is 11 Pro... between the two systems, there are 2 licenses already, but I'm willing to buy a new Windows 11 Pro if I have to.
How would you guys go about this to keep as much info/files with as little of a headache as possible?
- Windows Build/Version
- 11 Pro Beta v23H2 22635.3350
My Computers
System One System Two
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro β
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eg0070wm
- CPU
- Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7
- Memory
- 32 GB DDR4-3200 SDRAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel® Iris® Xᵉ Graphics
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 2TB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD
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- Operating System
- macOS Ventura
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Apple iMac 27" 5K (2017)
- CPU
- 3.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5
- Memory
- 40 GB 2400 MHz DDR4
- Graphics card(s)
- Radeon Pro 570 4 GB
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 27" 5K, 34" UW
- Screen Resolution
- Mon 1: 5120 × 2880 Mon 2: 2560 x 1080
- Hard Drives
- 32GB NVME, 1TB SSD