SSD

[CrankyOldBugger]

Well you'd need a way to connect either drive via USB or eSATA (if
available), boot from a USB or CD and use a disk copy program to clone the
old drive to the new one.

On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 at 11:28 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeff, thanks for the info, I wonder though, once this is done(and I
> have looked up the HP site to do this)do I have to do a complete reinstall
> of 14.04? how do you transfer what,s on the HDD to the SSD?
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:08 AM, CrankyOldBugger <
> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If you know the exact model (and possibly age), you could go on the HP
>> website to figure out what sort of motherboard is installed, and from there
>> determine what version of of SATA you have.  SSD will work (I believe) on
>> SATA II and SATA III, but you need SATA III to really see the benefits
>> (i.e. how fast the transfer rate is).
>>
>> Even if it's SATA II, SSD will be an improvement.  Without knowing for
>> sure what model laptop you have, I would imagine that it's a
>> straightforward swap.  You may need to move the drive bay attachments to
>> the SDD to make it fit right.
>>
>> I'm not the expert here at laptops, though.  Perhaps one of the Working
>> Centre lads could help out here...
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 at 11:03 Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, I'm using an HP pavilion laptop and I wonder if I can replace
>>> the HD with an SSD? I never opened one of these, is this doable? I suppose
>>> I could add an outboard SSD but I wonder how to transfer all the info on to
>>> it and tell the computer to shut down the HD.How would you do this? Thanks.
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