main drive migration?

[unklep]

I wanna upgrade to a SSD on my main drive of my laptop. its 500gb and has about 100gb of free space. what is the best way to migrate to a SSD (i havent bought it yet). I do own a external HD dock which i should make the process simple i hope.

im using windows 7

 

[USAFRet]

You have 400GB of used space on the current HDD. Either you need a 500+ GB SSD, or do it the recommended way and install fresh on the new SSD.

 

[unklep]

You have 400GB of used space on the current HDD. Either you need a 500+ GB SSD, or do it the recommended way and install fresh on the new SSD.

ya i plan on getting a ssd at least 500gb. i like the way my os is running now so im not doing a fresh install. i just want to take the image from the old drive and put it on the new one. in the past ive tryed to do a drag and drop from one drive to another but i get errors because the os is using the files.

if i load a disk copy of linux will that let me do a complete drive copy?

 

[USAFRet]

You have 400GB of used space on the current HDD. Either you need a 500+ GB SSD, or do it the recommended way and install fresh on the new SSD.

ya i plan on getting a ssd at least 500gb. i like the way my os is running now so im not doing a fresh install. i just want to take the image from the old drive and put it on the new one. in the past ive tryed to do a drag and drop from one drive to another but i get errors because the os is using the files.

if i load a disk copy of linux will that let me do a complete drive copy?

I always recommend a fresh install on a new SSD, but...

What you need is a migration tool. Some drives will come with one on a disk. Or CloneZilla and DriveImageXML will do it as well.

You can't just drag and drop from one boot drive to another, and Linux has nothing to do with this scenario.