Hello friends,
Happy New Year!! I hope everyone is doing well. I want to swap my HDD in my laptop, with a SSD.
My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5547, it has a 1TB, S3, 5.4, 512E, STRAIGHT, M8BP2, 16D.
I recently purchased a Crucial MX300 2.5" 525GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive and want to swap out the HD with it.
This is my first time doing it, so can someone please help me:
1) How do I transfer the data from the HD to the SSD? Do I backit up on an external drive and then transfer it, or use a program like Macrium Reflect (Free version)
2) How about the O/S, I currently run Windows 10. I presume the O/S will dissapear when I install thenew SSD?
I know that Dell has a recovery option partioned in the current HD, so is there some way I can use that?
3) Any other tips for doing this smoothly?
Thank you,
Much appreciated
desidude
Happy New Year!! I hope everyone is doing well. I want to swap my HDD in my laptop, with a SSD.
My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 5547, it has a 1TB, S3, 5.4, 512E, STRAIGHT, M8BP2, 16D.
I recently purchased a Crucial MX300 2.5" 525GB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive and want to swap out the HD with it.
This is my first time doing it, so can someone please help me:
1) How do I transfer the data from the HD to the SSD? Do I backit up on an external drive and then transfer it, or use a program like Macrium Reflect (Free version)
2) How about the O/S, I currently run Windows 10. I presume the O/S will dissapear when I install thenew SSD?
I know that Dell has a recovery option partioned in the current HD, so is there some way I can use that?
3) Any other tips for doing this smoothly?
Thank you,
Much appreciated
desidude