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CNET How To: Replace your computer's main hard drive with an SSD

2012-03-12
hello we have a computer for why now Starcraft for example take forever to load that it's unacceptable now if you go I will tell you go ahead and buy a new computer this time however I have something else SSD hello my name is delgo and today and show you how to migrate your computer's hard drive to a solid-state drive okay to do this there are a few thing you need first an SSD just go out there and get the one that is a the most affordable for the amount you need the most important thing however you need to get an SSD that have capacity that is more than the amount of existing data you have on the computer but for the demo though and use one that is 240 gig why settle for less quanta can have more right the second thing you need is a piece of software to clone the hard drive I use the akunis true image the reason because this is a very public software and it can do more than just cloning but you can use any version that was released on or after 2007 for example here I use hakuna 2m is 11 which was released in 2011 regardless of what version you use they all share the same cloning function which can be accessed from the Tools menu now the third things you need is a adapter USB to SATA if you have a Seagate go flag hard drive you actually can use the adapter part of the DRI for the job and the last thing you need is a screwdriver now let's start with the project first you hope the SSD to the adapter and then you plug it into the USB port of the computer now on the computer you run the aqua needs to image as you see the software loaded and you should click on tools and clone disk and then click Next now you're going to software to do the job automatically so you pick this option and then this is important step make sure you choose the source hard disk is the main hard drive of the computer and then click Next and now of course you pick the destination hard disk as the one which is plug in through the USB port and if the new drive has some partition or data on it the software will ask you to delete partition and you want to do that make sure though you do not delete your import information and then you click Next now we see the window we show the result when the cooling process is finished you click Next make sure you see that a two drug would be exactly the same you click Next and then click proceed now the software will ask you to restart the machine for the cloning process to start you go ahead with a reboot and then after that the computer will ask to restart now this will take some time up to an hour depending on how much data you have on the computer so I suggest you go ahead and do something like running another blog do push up I'll call your mom maybe not because take you more than an hour and now it is done just press any button and the computer will shut down it is now time for us to replace the hard drive with the SSD physically now the hard drive the most laptop can be replaced very easily with this down for example it takes only 2 screw for the hard drive to come out and there you go now here is the hard drive of my Dell it is now no more in service now I take the SSD now of the adapter and I would put it back in here and now I'm going to put the SSD Isis clone earlier into the computer and now the moment of truth I'm on turn the computer on it is now running an SSD and you will notice how much faster it boots up and there you go and now let's see how much faster start wrapped loads all right there you go must faster and now if you're still losing I can help you for more information check out the write-up version of the how-to that you can also find linked to software and other option up sort of state and so on and don't forget to follow me on my Facebook page or Twitter you can ask me question there if you run through a problem once the game my name is Don low and this has been they'll see that how to on how to migrate your computer from hard drive to solid-state drive
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