Upgrading to a larger SSD?

[Laura_Timmy]

Hi, I am not particularly computer savvy and was wondering if some of the experts here could help?

I have a Lenovo Yoga 3 14-inch (not the Pro) with a 128GB SSD. With Windows 10 and Office, I'm down to 70GB free space and am considering upgrading.

So a few questions:
1) How difficult is this to do with limited knowledge?
2) Is there an easy to follow guide out there for this?
3) With Windows 10 and Office, would I run into activation issues on the new SSD? (I'm not sure what my Office key is, and I think it can only be registered on 1 machine).
4) How long on average does this take?

Thank you for anybody's help.

 

[jaytechgaming]

What you want to do it grab the old SSD, the new one, and clone the old one over to the new one. You're going to need a desktop that can handle 2 additional drives and a copy of something like clonezilla. This way the computer never realizes that the drive has really changed, just that it has extra storage space.

To answer your questions:
1) Pretty easy since there is considerable documentation.
2)Yes, I'll add that later as I am on the go now, but clonezilla has a lot of documentation/youtube videos on it.
3)nope
4)Probably an hour of actual work and a few of letting the program do its thing.

 

[guanyu210379]

Or..
No need to use an extra PC, just use your laptop with the old SSD.
Get a cloning software e.g. aomei, etc., connect the new SSD using USB adapter.
Clone the old SSD to the new SSD.
Turn off the laptop completely..take out the battery too..
swap the SSD...
Put the battery back in...
Power-on..everything should work..if you do the cloning correctly.

 

[burdenbound]

Or..
No need to use an extra PC, just use your laptop with the old SSD.
Get a cloning software e.g. aomei, etc., connect the new SSD using USB adapter.
Clone the old SSD to the new SSD.
Turn off the laptop completely..take out the battery too..
swap the SSD...
Put the battery back in...
Power-on..everything should work..if you do the cloning correctly.

+1 for USB sata adapter. You can get them fairly cheap online, heck some SSDs actually come with one. (But not all)