Replace HDD with SDD on laptop

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endeavour37a

endeavour37a

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Hi, not sure of the best and easiest way to replace my HDD with a SSD on a Sager laptop, it has only one place for one storage device. I have an external passport I do saves on that has plenty of room if needed. Any suggestions before I buy one would be great.

Thanks in advance for any help...
 
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Phillip Corcoran
dudeman's suggestion to perform a fresh Windows install on your new SSD is best in my opinion.

It's easier than cloning (especially if existing HDD contains more data than the SSD has the capacity to accommodate), plus many people come here with boot-failure issues after cloning to an externally connected drive then connecting it internally. It's fixable of course, but that extra hassle you can do without.
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If you want to pretty much clone your existing drive, you can buy an external case for the HDD and clone it that way. Some SSDs come with imaging software, or there are cloning utilities that you can find online to do the same thing.

Otherwise, back up stuff you want to your external, and do a fresh Windows install on the SSD, then re-install all your applications. It sounds tedious, but you'll have tons of performance back on a fresh Windows install. It really doesn't take me that long to re-install everything on one of my computers (the sheer speed of a SSD makes that a lot better, and having > 2 core processors in 2 out of the 3 also helps with that as well).
 
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Phillip Corcoran

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dudeman's suggestion to perform a fresh Windows install on your new SSD is best in my opinion.

It's easier than cloning (especially if existing HDD contains more data than the SSD has the capacity to accommodate), plus many people come here with boot-failure issues after cloning to an externally connected drive then connecting it internally. It's fixable of course, but that extra hassle you can do without.
 
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Thanks gentlemen for your input ! I have a limited net bandwidth connection cause I live in the sticks, just did the "Creative" WIN10 update and it took all night just to download the whole thing :(. I have a current image of my HDD, maybe I will just try to swap them out and reload the image after I get the OS on the SSD. My HDD (160GB) is smaller than the 240GB SSD I plan on getting. Anyway THANKS for your advice....
 
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