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    How to Swap SSD and Reboot With a Back-Up Image of Original

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by washingtonhenry, Jul 16, 2016.

  1. washingtonhenry

    washingtonhenry Newbie

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    I recently got a new Lenovo 13 with middle of the road specs and am upgrading the RAM and storage.

    The RAM was a breeze and no problem.

    The storage on the other hand is worrying me. I am pretty novice and need some advice on how to go about swapping the SSD. From other posts I concluded that I want to make a back-up image of the current SSD and use that to reboot the new one once installed.

    So my question is how do I go about doing this. I understand how to make a back-up image onto an external drive, but beyond that am not entirely sure what to do.

    Do I need to make a recovery disk? And if so can it be a bootable USB because the Lenovo 13 doesn't have a disk drive.

    Would really appreciate a step-by-step run down of how to do this, or a link to something along those lines.

    Thanks for any advice.
     
  2. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

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    I usually use Macrium reflect Free to image the whole disk to an external HDD, create a recovery disk( CD/USB), install the SSD and boot with the recovery disk created, recover the image from my earlier backup.
    http://www.macrium.com/webtutorial/tutorial.asp
    You need to change the boot order in BIOS settings to USB as the first boot after creating the backup. Install your new SSD.
    Insert the USB drive(recovery) , connect your external disk and recover the image on to the new SSD.
     
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