Hey guys, I just got my SSD today after a trip to microcenter. I am putting it into my laptop. But before I can do that I need to copy everything off of my old HHD. I have never done this before so if anyone knows what would be the best way to do this I would really be thankful for the help.
Well, it's easier to only copy what you really need. Here's a list of some ways, some are practical, some are not. But if you have no choice then you gotta do what you gotta do to keep your data I suppose.
Move it to an external hard drive then copy it back to the SSD after.
Use flash drives, if you have enough of them.
Burn the data to DVDs/BDs then copy back to SSD after.
Copy the files to another computer over your LAN, then transfer back to the upgraded computer.
If you have a classic iPod in the 80-160 GB range you can enable disk use and use it as a external hard drive.
Archive important files with 7zip and split it into 200MB portions then upload to MediaFire and download back. (Not very practical but I've done it.)
Use a SATA-to-USB adapter to simply plug the hard drive into the upgraded computer via usb and transfer the files.
There's probably some other ways too but that's all I can think of for now.
Normaly I would just pull the things I need but I dont have a disk for the os laptop didnt come with any sadly. I took all the junk off of the old hard drive so now I just need to pull the rest to the new drive os and all.
I could be wrong but if I remember correctly, when you're upgrading to a SSD from a HDD it requires a clean install and cloning isn't possible.
Although this site here has official Windows 7 ISOs that are legit. It will ask for your serial in the install process so just use the one you already have if you can locate it on the computer. Make sure to choose the appropriate ISO that corresponds to the version of Windows that was already on the PC.
Thanks Ill have to try that.
Some people clone it, but i wouldn't recommend it. Just start fresh and install everything you need, and copy all the data to one folder.
I have successfully cloned to and from ssd easily with techies toolkit and an external hard drive adaptor, the ssd only needs to be bigger than the origional hard drive...there are literally hundreds of freeware live-cd cloning tools out there to make the operation easy as pie.