How to Upgrade and Clone Your Bootable Windows Laptop Hard Drive to a 2.5' SSD

In this video, I show you how to upgrade a 2.5" hard drive in an old Windows 7 based Asus K53E laptop with a 2.5" SSD. The procedure involves connecting the SSD to the laptop with an external USB enclosure, cloning the HDD to the SDD, and then physically swapping the two drives. I'll use Macrium Reflect's free cloning software to perform the clone. In addition, I'll show CrystalMark benchmarks before and after the replacement to show you the performance improvements that I experienced.

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[malcytull]

I love the sound effects of your screwdriver LOL, a really useful & helpful video, I hope to do my laptop later when I get my SSD, thank you for sharing.

[danatmonst]

Thanks to this tutorial I was able to to clone my antique HDD to a larger SSD. Took almost an hour, but on exchange and reboot ...wow! Even on this antique laptop, I noticed such an improvement in response (not surprising - the HDD was red-line full!). What I didn't expect, but which also makes total sense, is the complete lack of heat. Some days the keyboard would be very hot, fan running crazy fast but sometimes uncomfortably hot to the touch. That poor HDD!

I'm so impressed with how quickly and smoothly everything went, thank you so much!

You seem to be in-the-know, so you're my go-to-guy for this question: I have a nearly full 1Tb ext HDD that I'd like to clone to a new 4T ext HDD...everything, all in one go, as was done for the OS/C: drive....Is this possible for FREE? (And without using the cloud?) File explorer seems slow and unreliable for some of the larger files (or long file names). They're both non boot drives so Macrium free wasn't an option, sadly, as the C: drive was soooo easy to clone.

I agree with everyone else too: You have such a soothing voice :)

[obliviousmode]

Thank you so much. I’m planning on doing this when my new SSD and Sata cable arrives. Your tutorial is simple and very easy to follow along to. I will update my results when my items arrive and finishing this process.

[sjsphotog]

Fantastic tutorial. You rock. Any plans to update these to show the process for Macrum Reflect version 8 or is it basically the same?

[RGerard_Costa]

Merry Christmas AR.... and thanks for the info...

[dinil]

I'm planning to follow this for our office laptop. It won't cause any issue with old HDD( data loss) right?
My managers laptop is too slow due to HDD issue. He was using 1TB HDD (WD) and I will clone it to 1TB SSD (WD).

[PeterPalDesign]

Thank you brother. It helped me a lot. I needed this kind of complex/all-in-one tutorial.

[gpcrawford]

Wasn’t aware that macrium reflect automatically resized partions when cloning large capacity hdd to smaller capacity ssd all other videos. On this say not.Good clear commentary voice over

[danconanu]

Hello, Do I need a full hard Drive Upgrade Kit or a Sata to USB 3.0 Adapter Cable is sufficient?

[HamidSBaig]

Superb tutorial👌CrystalDiskMark is free to download. Please send Link if possible

[danielalfredo]

Really like the way you explained everything. I have a question though, I think partitions are giving me issues to clone my drive, not related to space, but with permissions. These partitions are empty, so I was thinking of just installing the partition that has Windows on it. Would my computer boot up fine without the rest of these partitions?

[josmeeusen]

Can you please help me? My HDD starts with a small ESP FAT32 (LBA) partition. The BIOS boot system is UEFI. I learned this by Macrium Reflect and System Information. The HDD contains also an NTFS primary partition. And a second small NTFS primary partition which shows red. Macrium tells me that UEFI will not start on an NTFS formatted disc. It allows me to copy both NTFS partitions to the SSD. What do I do to make the SSD bootable? I hope you will help me. I bought a 860EVO SSD from Amazon, I got confidence from these very good instructions and more here on YouTube, but you are a favorite.

Has Macrium been updated since making this video? Any differences? Also, do I need to make a rescue disk here? I want to replace my old laptop HDD with a new SSD.

[SidewalkMechanics]

Dude this is the shit thanks soo Much for posting exactly what I was looking for

[sirfranciscanadianbacon]

Thanks very much for the video. I am confused about something, hope you can help me understand. Based on another video of yours, where you cloned a boot hdd to new ssd, you created what I believe you called a “rescue disk”. This other video advised to do something with that even after switching the boot order in bios. In this video, you did not create rescue disk. Is this because in your other video, you kept the old disk connected for use, but in this video you physically swapped the disks? So the old boot disk is no longer connected here. I am doing this procedure except to upgrade my m.2 disk on my desktop pc. I have a single m.2 slot so I will be using this adapter and swapping after the clone. So, to clarify, I will not need to do the rescue disk step because my old boot disk will be removed? I hope this made sense.

[helloworldstein]

As they say in the popup, giving them your email is optional. You can skip the it by leaving the email field empty and hitting continue anyways.

[nziom]

Is there a way to do this(aka cloning from an hdd to ssd) from a USB stick instead of booting from either the ssd or the hdd

[nziom]

Should my internal ssd be allocated? Or is it fine if I do this when it's just an empty ssd

[patrikcintula]

Thank you so much, worked very well. :)