Hey Guys,
I know there are hundreds of threads on here about this issue, but I thought before I make the leap I may as well make sure.
Firstly, I'm currently running a laptop with a 1tb hard drive and looking to switch to a 500gb SSD. I'm a little bit concerned about whether the SSD will be big enough. I've only used up 250gb of data on my C drive, yet on my computer it is only saying that I have 624gb of total storage despite it being 1tb. I imagine this is due to some kind of formatting, but all I'd like to know is whether a SSD will also require a large amount of space 400gb~? before I even think about adding my 250gb of my own data.
Also would it be useful to bring across my D & E drives, Recovery & HP Tools respectively? Can't I just a manual back-up/restore on an external HDD instead of need to partition the SSD. I guess the HP tools can also be downloaded from the HP website.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Joe
I know there are hundreds of threads on here about this issue, but I thought before I make the leap I may as well make sure.
Firstly, I'm currently running a laptop with a 1tb hard drive and looking to switch to a 500gb SSD. I'm a little bit concerned about whether the SSD will be big enough. I've only used up 250gb of data on my C drive, yet on my computer it is only saying that I have 624gb of total storage despite it being 1tb. I imagine this is due to some kind of formatting, but all I'd like to know is whether a SSD will also require a large amount of space 400gb~? before I even think about adding my 250gb of my own data.
Also would it be useful to bring across my D & E drives, Recovery & HP Tools respectively? Can't I just a manual back-up/restore on an external HDD instead of need to partition the SSD. I guess the HP tools can also be downloaded from the HP website.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Joe
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