I would imagine the school would be on a loser if you removed all but
security software from it, as after all its not their machine, is it?

Brian

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On Wednesday, 27 November 2019 10:56:26 UTC, T i m wrote:
Peeps,

Following on from the Digital Audio Workstation / laptop question
previously, we have since found a s/h i5 HP Notebook that seems to run
Reason 11 ok. It came with a 750GB hdd that I'd like to swap out for a
SSD (a new 500GB Samsung 860 EVO is sitting here ready).

Now, I think I read somewhere that if you clone a std HDD onto a SSD
you may not get the optimum configuration, compared with allowing W10
to partition the drive from scratch itself. This is down to partition
/ block boundaries or some such? [1]

So, whilst this is a pretty fresh re-install of W10, she's taken it to
school the last couple of days and has to get the school IT dept to
put it online.

Now, if a fresh install (that is potentially going to be running for a
while, especially if she goes onto UNI etc) could give better results
than cloning, I might as well do that, even if she has to 'bother'
school IT again.

Thoughts please?

Cheers, T i m

[1] Or can you re-configure such things post cloning, with Gparted or
the like?

The main issue is that your SSD is smaller than the HD, so you will
need to shrink the last partition before you clone it.
I have successfully cloned a couple of Windows 7 systems to Samsung 860
Pro
drives using DD running on a USB bootable linux. It may not be the
optimal
method, but the results are good.
Getting the computer "online" at the school often means installing the
school spyware and a certificate for their proxy server so that they
can inspect all the encrypted traffic. Some monitoring may take place
even when the computer is out of the school. Any removable media attached
to the computer are also likely to get scanned and "anomalies" reported.
Schools have draconian legal powers for doing such things.

John