Replacing my Failing HDD with a new SSD

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Mattchu18

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My Samsung series 7 has a failing HDD. I was utterly clueless at why my computer was preforming extremely slow and performed a system recovery and completely wiping all my data. I found out after a windows popup that my HDD was failing and is recommending me to backup (a little too late). So now I am stuck with an extremely slow computer that is cause by the failing HDD (I am assuming). I already purchased a Samsung EVO 840 250GB SSD and I am wondering if I need to do anything else other than popping the back open and sticking the new SSD in.
P.S. My laptop is a refurbished model that i purchased from Amazon and it came with its own recovery disk, if it matters.
 
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Phillip Corcoran
The only problem you may encounter when attempting to use the recovery disc is if the SSD capacity is a lot less than the old HDD capacity, as there will be insufficient space on the SSD and the recovery process will be unable to run because of that. It really all depends on whether the recovery program is able to dynamically adjust the written partition sizes according to the amount of space that's available.

Toshiba Recovery can do that, don't know about other brands.

If you come up against that problem, you'll have to buy a copy of Windows on an installation CD/DVD.

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The only problem you may encounter when attempting to use the recovery disc is if the SSD capacity is a lot less than the old HDD capacity, as there will be insufficient space on the SSD and the recovery process will be unable to run because of that. It really all depends on whether the recovery program is able to dynamically adjust the written partition sizes according to the amount of space that's available.

Toshiba Recovery can do that, don't know about other brands.

If you come up against that problem, you'll have to buy a copy of Windows on an installation CD/DVD.

 
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First, I would like to thank you, Phillip for your detailed reply. My the old HDD had a storage capacity of around 650-700 GB, I would like to say. The system recovery did not include anything other than internet explorer and other default Microsoft applications, such as windows update, etc. Not even the initial Samsung bloatware came with the system recovery disk. The "used space" on the old HDD, after I performed the Recovery, was less than 50 GB I would say. Not too sure if that is what you were getting at when you said not enough space.

Other than having to purchase a copy of Windows, it should not hurt to attempt to perform the system recovery once I remove the HDD and replace it with my new SSD, correct?

Once again thank you for the reply.
 
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Oh, well you've been very fortunate. My Toshiba recovery installs a whole wad of Toshiba utilities, it actually re-creates all three of the default partitions too, but is capable of re-sizing the system partition according to the drive capacity. I know that because the original factory-fitted drive was 500GB, but is now a 320GB drive.

I honestly couldn't say whether changing to a smaller capacity drive will prevent Factory Recovery from being able to run to completion - but certainly no harm in trying it.

If you do end up having to install Windows from a Microsoft disc instead, just remember that when Windows is up and running you'll need to visit the Samsung support website to get the correct drivers for that model (those that aren't included in Windows 7 anyway).
 
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