How to Add SSD to Laptop without Removing HDD?
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Certainly, you can add an SSD to your laptop without removing the old HDD. There’re two feasible ways:
How to add an SSD to a laptop? Some higher-end and business-class computers come with extra hard drive bays. In this case, you can easily install an additional SSD (or HDD) into the available second slot, if one exists.
If your computer has an optical drive and is old enough, you can purchase a hard drive caddy that fits into the optical drive slot. This caddy allows you to install an extra HDD or SSD in place of the optical drive. But this action will sacrifice optical drive capability.
If your operating system is currently installed on the HDD, you can clone the system partition to the new SSD via this Windows multifunction software-AOMEI Backupper Standard to ensure a smooth and successful transfer of your system partition to the SSD.
As a professional cloning tool for Windows 11, 10, 8, or 7, freeware AOMEI Backupper Standard can help you clone the whole data disk from HDD to SSD/HDD for hard drive upgrade without losing data.
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With the help of the AOMEI Backupper Standard, you can also easily clone individual partition or volume to another one with intelligent sector clone by default.
1Step 1. Connect your SSD to the Windows and launch AOMEI Backupper Standard on your Windows, select Clone > Disk Clone.
2Step 2. Select the old HDD as the source drive > select the SSD as the designation drive.
3Step 3. Tick SSD Alignment to accelerate the reading and writing speed of your SSD > click Start Clone to clone the old HDD to your new SSD.
