How to Upgrade your Laptop to an SSD!

Upgrading your Laptop's Hard Drive to an SSD is the best thing you can do to increase speed & performance, and if you clone your HDD to SSD you can do it without reinstalling Windows!

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How to Install SSD in laptop (without reinstalling Windows).

When you replace your HDD with an SSD (on either Windows 10 or Windows 11) you have two options; to upgrade to an SSD without installing Windows (this video shows you how to clone an HDD to SSD using a hard drive docking station) or you can learn how to install Windows on a blank SSD using bootable USB Windows installation media.

Following the steps in this video and using the hard drive docking station as demonstrated, you will also learn how to replace a laptop hard drive without reinstalling Windows as well as how to upgrade SSD on PC.

Timestamps
00:00 Introduction - Benefits of Replacing Laptop HDD with an SSD
00:23 Choice: Clone HDD to SSD or Install Windows on blank SSD
01:08 Create USB Installation media for fresh Windows install
02:48 Opening up your Laptop to reveal hard drive
03:10 iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit: Precision Screwdrivers, opening tools, etc.
03:39 Remove your Laptop's old HDD (Hard Drive)
04:09 Clone HDD to SSD using Hard Drive Docking Station
04:23 Install new SSD into Laptop
04:51 Configure Laptop to boot from USB drive
05:11 Install Windows onto new SSD
05:23 Put your old HDD to good use!

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