[SOLVED] Transfer everything from hard drive to an ssd

[Insane Potatoz]

Hey everyone. Someone came to me becuase they knew I work with PCs a bit and basically asked me how I could make their PC go faster. After simply logging in to their PC, i could tell it needed an SSD. The HDD was under constant pressure even doing things like loading up google. I told them their PC needed, an SSD, and they said yes. To transfer their stuff from their hard drive to their SSD, I just need to clone it, right? I heard somewhere that it wasn't as easy as that and some other things needed to happen. Also, how would I go about doing that? any software I can install to do it?

Thanks!

Edit: Also I'm trying to find a decent cheap SSD for them. I've been looking at theTCSunBow X3. Would that be okay? It ranks pretty decent on this SSD tier list.

 

[Insane Potatoz]

Should be no problem to use it.
If there IS a problem...well, that might be the reason the clone failed.

My SSD didn't work...

Or, here's a thought.
Don't try to do a direct clone.

Assuming you have an external drive around with sufficient space, make an Image of the current HDD.
Also, make a Macrium Rescue USB.
Swap the drives...HDD out, SSD in.
Boot from the Macrium RescueUSB, and recover that Image to the new SSD>

Try that.

But I did this and it worked! Finally was able to get ahold of an external drive. Thanks so much!

 

[USAFRet]

But I did this and it worked! Finally was able to get ahold of an external drive. Thanks so much!

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