Bought a Nice SSD for my x220 Lenovo a while ago, have a question
Hey guys,
So when I bought my x220 Laptop however long ago, like most tech educated users, I only customize the build with options that I can't purchase aftermarket for half the price that any of the elarge vendors ask for during a build.
Because of this I decided to hold off on an SSD and then pick one up myself for considerably cheaper. The problem was I use this computer heavily for work, med school, and research and I have so much important data that I'd really really prefer not to do a clean install when switcing over to my SSD drive.
I know it is possible to basically clone the existing drive and then move it to the SSD. My question is how well does this work. I know they says its possible, but there are quite a few conversion issues and the usual compatibility b.s.
Any chance that I can do this and it will work without problems and I will truly be able to enjoy the additional speed of my solid state?
I've had it sitting in a draw for a few months now because i just cant bare to deal with the pains involved with a hard format and then hunting down and setting up all my existing data and programs.
So basically how well does an SSD transfer that includes all data and OS really work. Im hoping it works well???
It generally works well. There can be a few small gotchas, but the worst I've ever had to do was boot into the Windows disk and have it fix the boot files.
I don't know about other drives, but the Intel 320 drives I've bought have come with copies of Acronis to take care of the imaging. I have Ghost, so that's what I use, but Acronis can work fine.
Originally Posted By GlutealCleft:
It generally works well. There can be a few small gotchas, but the worst I've ever had to do was boot into the Windows disk and have it fix the boot files.
I don't know about other drives, but the Intel 320 drives I've bought have come with copies of Acronis to take care of the imaging. I have Ghost, so that's what I use, but Acronis can work fine.
thanks for the advice, I have both but currently have acronis sitting on my desktop (the bitch wont leave if I wanted it to). I not sure if I shouuld use Acronis or clonezilla or one of the open source programs that some of the walkthroughs use.
I believe acronis has an option to do this type of transfer correct?
I've put regular hard drive images on to an SSD before.
It works but I believe in order for trim to work you need to do a clean install.
There is probably some other way to enable trim.
I'd do a fresh install just to save precious SSD space from years of bloat that build up on an old install.
Indeed, if you want all functions of the SSD drive to work properly and to get all the speed possible, a clean install is the only way to go.
Clean install, get a HDD dock (usb or Esata, depending on what ports your laptop has) and transfer the needed non-OS files manually to the new drive. In the future save your non-OS data on a different partition or at least a designated "data" file/folders where you can easily transfer it (and back up).
