Download Macrium Reflect, Pull you hard drive out, install your SSD, hook up your hard drive VIA USB and clone your hard drive to your SSD. Macrium has all the direction on there web site.

Perhaps before you do this, download Asus Backtracker and create a restore to factory USB thumb drive.

You can also use this USB to restore to your newly installed SSD

The main differences are backtracker will always put your computer back to factory shipped state.
Macrium Reflect will bring you back to where you were when you made the Image or Clone

All I did was put the hdd into secondary lot, rebooted the lappy to show it where primary boot drive is, then simply plopped ssd in the main slot and used macrium to create a 1:1 copy of partitions (shrinking the empty space) then take out the hdd while leaving the ssd in there and voila. Then reformat hdd and there you have your storage drive.

katim2004 wrote:
correct me if im wrong , i will clone my HDD to SSD using Samsung migration tool , then take out the HDD from the primary slot , install my SSD into the primary slot , finally install HDD to secondary slot .

Swarmy wrote:
All I did was put the hdd into secondary lot, rebooted the lappy to show it where primary boot drive is, then simply plopped ssd in the main slot and used macrium to create a 1:1 copy of partitions (shrinking the empty space) then take out the hdd while leaving the ssd in there and voila. Then reformat hdd and there you have your storage drive.

Cygnus_X1 wrote:
Will the free version of Macrium do the trick or do you have to buy Home Edition? I'm basically planning to do the same thing as katim2004, replace the main drive with a Samsung 850 SSD and move the 1tb drive to the second slot. I also appreciate the info about using Backtracker to backup the restore partition. I assume the OS is on there since the system didn't come with any media backup.