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I am considering switching a laptops HDD to an SSD. Is it possible?
What should I know before doing so?
Should I not do this?
Will it work?
2 Answers
- ?Lv 75 years ago
It should be possible and even if your laptop on has a single drive bay you can either make a recovery disk and reinstall Windows from scratch onto the SSD or use some cloning software and an external caddy to temporarily mount the SSD, then swap round the drive.
In the latter case the SSD will need to be at least the same size or greater than the HDD you are cloning from
- 5 years ago
You generally can, but make sure that your laptop has 2 bays; one for the SSD and one for the HDD if you want to use one.
My HP laptop has space for 2 drives. I have my SSD on one and the HDD on the other. I have a 120Gb SSD and a 1Tb HDD.
How you do it depends on your laptop. Before you do this, make a backup of your important information.
I prefer to clean install Windows and re-install all of my programs and copy over my information. It is tedious, I'll admit, and time consuming, but it works very well.
