Please bear with me, this will be quite lengthy. I have a 3 (maybe even 4?) year old Asus F54U1 laptop. Pentium i7, 8GB RAM. It gradually slowed down (significantly). I eliminated bloatware and bloat processes. This brought some improvement in terms of boot time but it still gets slow and the laptop tends to get more and more blue screen crashes.
I double checked and triple checked, and comcluded it must be because the HDD has worn down and is "dying". Since the CPU and RAM are OK, I decided to upgrade to SSD, and since the warranty is no more valid I decided to do it myself. More so because tech support which is not covered by warranty is expensive and unreliable where I live. Warranty-covered support is very good but unfortunately I am not covered anymore.
I looked up tutorials and decided on the following process
My first question is - before I dismantle Laptop 1, how do I work around this? I have another laptop as well, let's call it Laptop 2. Both laptops run Windows 10. What adjustments can I make to the process?
Would cloning work like this:
Many thanks in advance.
I double checked and triple checked, and comcluded it must be because the HDD has worn down and is "dying". Since the CPU and RAM are OK, I decided to upgrade to SSD, and since the warranty is no more valid I decided to do it myself. More so because tech support which is not covered by warranty is expensive and unreliable where I live. Warranty-covered support is very good but unfortunately I am not covered anymore.
I looked up tutorials and decided on the following process
- Create a bootable USB 'just in case'
- Backup all media files to external HDD - optional because I will still be cloning the original HDD
- Hook up the replacement SSD to the laptop via a SATA-to-USB cable (bought already)
- Clone the HDD (it only has 1 partition) to the replacement SSD (bought already) via cloning software
- Open the laptop case and replace the old HDD with the new, cloned SSD.
My first question is - before I dismantle Laptop 1, how do I work around this? I have another laptop as well, let's call it Laptop 2. Both laptops run Windows 10. What adjustments can I make to the process?
Would cloning work like this:
- Buy another USB-to-SATA cable
- Open Laptop 1 and remove old HDD
- Create bootable USB using Laptop 2 (with either download from MS website or old HDD as source)
- Hook up old HDD and new SSD to Laptop 2 via USB-to-SATA
- Clone using old HDD to new SSD running cloning software on Laptop 2 and connecting both disks via USB?
Many thanks in advance.