[H]Installing new SSD on Clevo P150HM

Hi, I bought my Clevo P150HM with the standard 500GB 7200RPM Seagate.
Now I've decided to switch over to a 64GB Crucial M4.
I do not use allot of space so thought it would benifit me, as I have a 2 TB Nas, 1TB Mediaplayer & a 750GB External HDD.

Now I don't have a caddy (yet) to place the old HDD in the ODD.

So I'm currently only using 25GB of the 465GB available, and thought I might aswell just migrate my system from the HDD to the new SSD.

Is it possible to use Paragon Drive copy & Paragon Migrate OS to SSD ?

I thought about Copy'ng my disk to my external HDD.
Swap out my HDD and insert my SSD, then boot from the external HDD ( as os ), detect the ssd update the firmware, and then use Paragon Migrate OS to SSD. Reboot and just use the SSD from there on ?

Or should I just clean install ?

 

First off, I'm not familiar with that software, but Clonezilla is what I typically recommend when doing full disk images:

Clonezilla - About

While you can clone your HDD to an external, I doubt you'd be able to boot from it. Most versions of Windows cannot be run from an external USB drive, so that's basically moot.

However, if you use Windows backup and restore utility- you can backup to the external drive, clean install on the SSD (or boot from a recovery disk), and restore the backup.

I'd honestly recommend clean installing on an SSD though. Ghosting/cloning a disk to an SSD can sometimes misalign the sectors or cause the drive to address more or less than it actually has available. I'm also not sure how TRIM support will be affected as the original install was not on the SSD.

EDIT: And for the time needed to do the full image and get it copied back to a new drive, you could have probably reinstalled Windows and copied your backup files back over. You may just want to do that- copy your important files to your external, clean install windows, reinstall programs, and copy them back.

I personally run a Windows Deployment Services Win2k8R2 Server at home with a slipstreamed Win7 SP1 install so that I can network boot into the installer and be back up and running with all my apps in about 30 minutes.

 

I have to agree with Malibal...Cloning from a traditional drive to an SSD may cause some issues. Definitely suggest a clean install.

And for all your program needs, check out ninite.com! You can select all the programs you use frequently and download them in one tiny installer package.

 

Decided to just go for a clean install, went fast and smoothly thx anyway =]