Question Upgrading HDD to an SSD on my laptop ?

[Izquierdo1991]

Hello,

I have a Toshiba Satellite L645-SP4135L laptop and I want to change the storage from HDD to SSD.
Does anyone know if this is possible and what capacity is available?

 

[USAFRet]

Hello,

I have a Toshiba Satellite L645-SP4135L laptop and I want to change the storage from HDD to SSD.
Does anyone know if this is possible and what capacity is available?

You can change from the HDD to a 2.5" SATA III SSD no problem.

Samsung 860/870 EVO, or Crucial MX500 are 2 good choices.

How to?
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1x port with an Image

Assuming you have another drive (any type of drive) with sufficient free space to hold the entirety of your current drive:

1. Download and install Macrium Reflect
2. Run that, and create a Rescue CD or USB (you'll use this later). "Other Tasks". Create this on a small USB flash drive or DVD.
3. In the Macrium client, create an Image to some other drive. External USB HDD, maybe. Select all partitions. This results in a file of xxxx.mrimage
4. When done, power OFF.
5. Swap the 2 drives
6. Boot up from the Rescue USB you created earlier.
7. Restore (on the toolbar), and tell it where the Image is that you created in step 3, and which drive to apply it to...the new SSD.
8. Go, and wait until it finishes.
9. That's all...this should work.

 

[Izquierdo1991]

Hello

Thanks for the information.

Do you know what SSD capacity the laptop supports?

 

[USAFRet]

Hello

Thanks for the information.

Do you know what SSD capacity the laptop supports?

There probably isn't a "max", but you probably don't want to go over 1TB.
Maybe 2TB.

 

[Izquierdo1991]

Thanks

 

[Izquierdo1991]

I bought a 512GB KingSpec SSD, installed it, but after a while it shut down completely.

I formatted it and reinstalled the OS, but the same thing kept happening.

Does anyone know why this happens?

 

[Moonstick2]

Where did you buy it from? How much did it cost? From what I know, Kingspec are pretty variable in quality.

One issue might be it's a drive that runs hot and it's overheating inside your laptop.

Return it as faulty and get a replacement. If that does the same thing return it and buy a different brand, one of the ones recommended. If that also shuts down then you can start thinking it's an issue with your laptop.

 

[Izquierdo1991]

Hello

Thanks for the comment. I'm going to change the disk and get one of the aforementioned references and try again.