How best to clone the C:Drive to a new SSD in a two drive Laptop.

[gbruce40]

I have a Dell Laptop with Two physical 500GB hard drives (C and D drives). I want to replace the C: drive with a newly purchased 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD.

Would the following method work.?

1) Remove the D: drive and replace it with the SSD.
2) Clone the C: drive to the SSD.
3) Change the C: Drive with the SSD.
4) Replace the D: drive in it's original position in the laptop.
5) keep the C: drive as a back up.

Will I have partition problems by cloning? Should I use imaging instead?

Not being one of the more technically minded individuals, I would appreciate someone pointing out any errors in my method.?

 

[Laptop_Nerd]

Hi,

Please do try this link that may answer that question.

http/www.easeus.com/todo-backup-guide/disk-clone-guide.html

 

[gbruce40]

Your suggestion does not help me with my questions. It may be fine but not what I am looking for. Thank you.

 

[wpgwpg]

I always do a backup to an external hard drive, then do the restore to the SSD. Just make sure the partition you're cloning is no larger than the SSD.

Good luck.

 

[gbruce40]

Thank you wpgwpg.

I have successfully installed the SSD using my method outlined above. It would appear that my laptop does not support SATA 3 (6Gb/s), only SATA 2 (3Gb/s). Therefore it is slower than I had expected, although considerably faster than before. Certainly worth the effort. I get 246 MB/s Sequential Reads and 272 MB/s Sequential Writes, not as good as 3GB/s but it will do..