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.
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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. -
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.