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canalrun said:
Hello,

I'm kind of guessing that the procedure will be something like the following:
- Remove the laptop battery, remove the HDD. Install the SSD, hopefully the connector will be the same, close up the laptop and reinstall the battery.
- During laptop boot, press F11 (or whatever key) to enter the boot configuration, select recover (hopefully it has a from flash option). This will recover Windows 10 to the new SSD?

After it is recovered I will be able to boot the laptop into Windows 10 (on the SSD).

Am I close?
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Sadly, that won't work. The recovery information is on the hard drive - everything is except the BIOS to boot the machine. The last one I did as an upgrade, I did like this:

Get the SSD - They are all SATA connections and generally 2.5 inch size, although most SSDs are 7mm - thinner than a hard drive but not a problem.

If you don't have a second computer with two spare SATA ports, you'll have to try an in-situ clone if you want to keep everything. Download a copy of Macrium Reflect http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx. This will give all sorts of options to make an image of your existing drive or clone it directly to another one and is free for personal use.

I'm lucky to have a spare PC that I used to do a direct clone and was back up and working on the SSD in about an hour. If you haven't got this luxury then it is probably best to just install windows from scratch and copy your data across from your backup later.

I've not tried, but it may be possible to use Macrium to just copy the recovery partition from your old drive onto the new one and then proceed as you suggested.

Also, having an external USB SATA drive adapter can be a god-send.

HTH

David
 
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canalrun said:
Hello,
I find this thread interesting. I just got a new 2016 HP laptop with Windows 10 and an i7 that I use as my new secondary, test, computer. I've been toying with the idea of switching to an SSD because of the performance improvements people mention. I wonder if someone could give a brief overview of the procedure for switching from an HDD to SSD, mentioning any pitfalls that might be encountered – definitely not a step-by-step procedure, just an overview.

For example, the laptop contains a 1 TB HDD. I will essentially just be swapping this for an SSD.

- Does the SSD have the same form factor as the HDD and will it mount inside the laptop? Do I need to get a specific form factor SSD?
- Windows 10 came preinstalled on the laptop. I have no Windows 10 disks, but I made the Recovery flash drive including the system files. Will I be able to use this to install a fresh copy of Windows 10 on the SSD. I don't care about any other files. I will reinstall the other stuff.

I'm kind of guessing that the procedure will be something like the following:
- Remove the laptop battery, remove the HDD. Install the SSD, hopefully the connector will be the same, close up the laptop and reinstall the battery.
- During laptop boot, press F11 (or whatever key) to enter the boot configuration, select recover (hopefully it has a from flash option). This will recover Windows 10 to the new SSD?

After it is recovered I will be able to boot the laptop into Windows 10 (on the SSD).

Am I close?

Thanks,
Barry.
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when i bought the SSD from toshiba i also received a Spacer of 2,5 mm because the SSD was 7mm width.
the connectors are the same and also the screws are on the same place and my old hd screws matched to the SSD (there where no screws in the SSD package)

i think you have lots of soft that creates boot-able recovery disks so i guess it is possible to recover from an USB image file (since you can install even windows through a USB flash disk!) look at : http://www.acronis.com/en-eu/personal/computer-backup/

https ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKbR6XT7fcA

so basically you wont loos anything if you try to switch to an SSD if you will not be able to recover (what i think should work) you will have to buy a windows7 copy that should not be very expensive and then upgrade to WIN 10 for free (this is what i did, because my hdd died and i could not create a recovery image, so i install windows 7 and update for free) it took me only few hours to get everything working (including all soft like java, android sdk, b4x, gimp,...

so you should go for it the difference is really enormous (in my opinion)


this is the SSD i bought: http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Q300-240GB-2-5-Inch-Internal/dp/B013XFRWRM
but i paid a little bit more (92$) but it is worth!
 
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@ilan, in general. As of 2016, there is no difference in terms of performance between having 8 or 16 gigabytes of RAM.
 
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wonder said:
@ilan, in general. As of 2016, there is no difference in terms of performance between having 8 or 16 gigabytes of RAM.
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i have only 8gb so i cannot confirm what you said but i can confirm that SSD upgrades your pc experience a lot!
 
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with my old hhd it took me about 3 minutes from boot to start working (smoothly)
with the ssd the good thing is that after your systems boots to the desktop you can immediately work!

and my ssd is maybe middle class or even lower class. there are much faster ssd that cost 2-3 times then mine but i am very satisfied with the result :)

what ssd have you ordered @wonder ?
 
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The HyperX Savage price is the same like mine but has much better states.
here the same drive cost 550 shekel = 127 euro (compared to the 83 euro you paid)

:confused: why is here everything so expensive?!

Good choice wonder, you will definitely enjoy your new SSD :)

EDIT: don't forget to make a boot-up video, i would like to see the difference
 
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if you have enough RAM you better turn of the page file since there is not need for it and just eats away space on your ssd.
I have 12Gb in this machine at work and only use 30% of it while I have a lot of stuff open.

also disable crap like windows search/indexing if you use other methods to look for content (total commander and it's search)
 
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ilan said:
don't forget to make a boot-up video, i would like to see the difference
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I put a Crucial 256Gb SSD in an old (6+ years) ACER machine.

From Win10 boot logo appearence to login screen is like 4-6 seconds.
 
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wonder said:
@ilan, in general. As of 2016, there is no difference in terms of performance between having 8 or 16 gigabytes of RAM.
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Sorry, I disagree! I notice a big difference.
 
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MikeH said:
Sorry, I disagree! I notice a big difference.
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Mike, I'm only referring to my personal experience. Nevertheless, I will rephrase it in a better way:
As of 2016, after upgrading my PC from 8 to 16 gigabytes of RAM, I notice no difference in terms of performance.
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I believe the "problem" was that my PC was already fast enough.
Core i7 @ 3.40 GhZ
nVIDIA GTX 760
Win10 64bit
 
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"Fast enough" is one thing, "doing more" is another. I often have several memory hungry apps running at once. This obviously benefits from more ram. I went from 8 to 16gb in my Windows PC (similar spec to yours) and noticed an immediate improvement.

Unfortunately, shortly after that upgrade, the i7 cpu died. So I bought my Mac Mini which has almost the same spec and is doing the same work without even sweating :)
 
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MikeH said:
"Fast enough" is one thing, "doing more" is another. I often have several memory hungry apps running at once. This obviously benefits from more ram. I went from 8 to 16gb in my Windows PC (similar spec to yours) and noticed an immediate improvement.
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I guess I haven't yet put my PC under such a heavy load that I would notice the difference. I usually avoid multitasking at all costs.
The apps I usually have running at simultaneously are: B4A, Visual Studio, Droid4X, Chrome (max 3 tabs) and Photoshop. Not much...
 
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IMO, a sweet combination is the SSD as your primary and a WD BLACK HDD as your secondary. Redirect the user data to the HDD since the larger SSD's are not cost effective yet. This works great and in the event the SSD dies the data is on the HDD.(this is not a backup) just a method of getting better performance.
 
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