How to Replace Notebook's Hard Drive with SSD

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How to Replace Notebook’s Hard Drive with SSD

12 July 2019 Amanda J. Brook Senior Product Manager

Summary
Just 2 simple steps you can improve the performance of your computer by replacing hard drive with SSD! Free Renee Becca is waiting for you!

Disk Cloning Applications

Clone disk is also called ” Disk to Disk “, which can clone all the data on one disk to another disk. It can be applied to many situations.

Hard disk upgrade
Help you to upgrade your hard drive from small and old disk to a new one without reinstalling the operating system and installed applications.

Data migration
Help you quickly transfer all data on one disk to others, such as, migrate system to SSD, etc.

Make a disk copy
Can be used to make a copy of the source disk as a backup.

Data Security
Make a copy of the damaged hard drive and recover the lost data from the cloned disk.

Disk cloning
Allows you to clone the entire disk from one to another in the easiest way. However, do you know how to clone a hard drive safely? Here we present a reliable disk cloning software and guide you to do the procedures for disk cloning in a simple way.

What is the Best Tool to Clone a Hard Drive?

First, you should find out what third-party disk cloning software is required if you want to clone or copy hard disk. Renee Becca is professional software for backup, restore and disk cloning. It supports all major Windows systems such as Windows 10/8/7 / XP / Vista 32-bit and 64-bit, and Windows Server 2012/2008/2003.

The program can do a perfect job to copy the entire hard drive to another. The procedures for disk cloning are very easy and direct. And it also offers a hard disk copy / clone solution to transfer your data from the old disk to a new one, or make a system backup such as cloning Windows system disk or hard disk in case of computer failure or failure of the system. Now, follow the steps below to learn how to clone a hard drive with this program.

Replacing the Hard Drive for Notebook with SSD

Preparation before Clone:

Select the right SSD from factor and interface which fits for your computer, especially for laptop.
Make a full backup for both HDD and SSD.
Move large files and folders that you do not use frequently to external memory device.
Download and install Renee Becca.

Renee Becca is compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista and XP.

Step 1: Launch Renee Becca. Select “Clone Function” and then please click “Disk Clone”.

Step 2: Select the target SSD and you can have a check of the size of partitions in SSD. After assure, just click “Clone”.

Renee Becca will divide the space for target SSD in accordance with the space ratio in source disk when cloning entire HDD to SSD.

Note:
1. Memory of the target SSD need to be equal or larger than the space which has been used in source. (Larger will be better, because each disk has some space which is hidden).
2. Please make sure size of each partition in target SSD must be equal or larger than the total size of the file in related source partition.

Source Disk (500GB) Partition Ratio: 2:2:1

Target Disk (250GB) Partition Ratio:2:2:1

Now, clone entire large HDD to smaller SSD or HDD is no more difficult for us. With entirely free Renee Becca, you can make it in 2 simple clicks. Download the free version!