How to upgrade from normal hard disk to SSD on your personal Laptop?

2/1/2021

How to upgrade your laptop from your normal hard disk to a new SSD (Solid State Hard Disk).

To start with you need following spares.

First thing you need New SSD with capacity starting from 256 GB, 500GB or 1TB + as per your requirement.
External USB Casing for transferring or Cloning data from old hard disk to new SSD
Screwdriver set to open the back cover of laptop. Some laptops may need an experts help to open it up.
8 GB PEN DRIVE to create installation disk for fresh installation.
For Cloning some brands come with their own cloning software which are easier to use.

Step 1

Step 2

Open your chosen backup application which is available from website for the SSD brand you bought. In the main menu, look for the option to Clone or Migrate SSD/HDD. That's the one you want.
A new window should open, and the program will detect the drives connected to your computer and ask for a Source and destination drive.
It will take some time depending on the data size. Then remove the old hard disk and restart PC with new SSD only. For Desktops you can keep your old hard disk as a secondary hard disk.

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