Replacing Hdd With Sdd

Decided I oughta replace the 750GB HDD in my old Toshiba laptop (model P875-S7102, Win 10) with a shiny new 1TB EVO 860. Physically, looks to be no problem. But of course, I want to just clone the data, OS and all. I assume that something like MiniTool with a USB-to-SATA cable would be the way to go, but I'd appreciate seeing what the Geeks like for that...

Anyone?

 

I just replaced an old mechanical with a 2TB SSD on the 'games room' desktop, Win10.
I used Yumi to build a bootable usb of Clonezilla
Booting to Clonezilla, I imaged the old mechanical drive from which I stored this image on my 2tb external usb.

After physically swapping the drives, I just assigned the new SSD a drive letter in 'Disk Management' and formatted with NTFS. (I found that Win10 wouldnt see the new SSD otherwise)

Booted back to Clonezilla on the usb, then simply restored the image to the new drive!

There are many ways to achieve this however, just wanted to share what worked well for me.
Oh.....and be prepared for many hours waiting to complete both constructing the image, and restoring.
(depending on how large the image is, mine was a tad over 300gb so have plenty of external drive space available)

 

I mostly use Clonezilla Live CD. It's quick and if you have never used it before there are lots of guides and videos available.

Have also used MiniTool Partition Wizard (also bootable) on a couple of occasions.

Thankfully your laptop has USB3.0 ports so should be reasonably quick.

After you are done and have substituted the HDD with the SSD make sure you boot to bios first and make sure that it has been correctly detected before booting to the o/s

Also check that the SSD is properly aligned

 

I like Clonezilla for its ability at cross-platform OS imaging.
Running a Linux server with a couple of clients, its what I prefer for image backup on all systems across my network including both 10 machines.