Moving G73SW to SSD

I've spent a couple days here and elsewhere reading about moving to SSD, but there's much conflicting information and no real complete 'guide' to making the move. There even seems to be conflicting views of whether the G73SW is SataIII or SataII.

So, here's my plan and I'm hoping the more experienced among you can tell me yay or nay - and more importantly, if nay, what I need to do.

I have the 512gb drive, split into two (well, three with the restore) drives. What I'd like to do is use my drive duplicator to copy C over to the new SSD (a 512), expand it to the full drive, then delete the C partition from the existing spindle drive and expand D to fill that.

Aside from duplicating the drive on my external drive duplicator, is there anything I need to do to move C from the spindle drive to the SSD? I've done this when I was experiencing a failing drive on one of my other machines. I simply duped the drive, pulled the old one, put in the new one and powered up. Everything worked fine.

Will this be the case with moving to the SSD? I've read about turning off indexing, etc in Win7 and I'm wondering if that's still needed.

I'm thinking of using a OCZ Vertex 4.

Any experiences you might have would be very much appreciated.

Has no one done this upgrade? Is there a thread (recent) I'm missing that I could look at to answer these questions? Bueller?

 

The SW is SATA III, you will also have to make sure your SSD is aligned when you clone. If your laptop only has one HDD in it, you'll likely need a drive caddy as well.

 

What do you mean "ssd aligned when I clone"? I do have only the one 512 in it now, the SW-XT1 only came with the one drive, so I'll buy a caddy to go along with the drive.

 

Google is my friend. Thanks for the replies - getting a new SSD tomorrow.