I bought an Asus X202E laptop and installed Ubuntu on it and then completely formatted it which deleted everything including the recovery partition. So i could not restore it. Then I installed Windows 8.1 update 1 complete raw and now I am not having those original Asus programs and drivers (I downloaded some but i am not satisfied).
My friend bought a new Asus X202E the same model. So I am planning to migrate his hard disk to an external hard disk then install it on my hard disk. By which i might get the same experience of a new asus X202E. Is it possible and if yes please tell me how? Will my friend's laptop be harmed?
thank you!
Answer
Yes, it is possible and there is no worries in this case because both hardware are identical.
Just use a disk cloning app that supports full disk cloning (that includes boot partition), like the apps listed above:
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Macrium Reflect (FREE):
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
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Paragon Backup & Recovery (FREE):
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/
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Honorable mentions:
Clonezilla (FREE): http://clonezilla.org/
EaseUS Partition Master (FREE): http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm
DriveImage XML (FREE): http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm
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