upgrading mSATA SSD to mSATA SSD
Hi. I have a 120GB Intel 530 mSATA SSD Drive (containing W7 OS and programmes) and a 750GB HDD with my files in my laptop. I wish to upgrade the SSD drive to a 240GB Intel 530 mSATA drive. I tried putting the new drive in a USB caddy and doing a straight forward clone but the USB caddy doesn't seem to load on restart to do the clone.
I have now sensibly read the instructions which doesn't really cover SSD to larger SSD so I just wish to see what advice I can get. The instructions seem to suggest putting the new drive in the correct slot, in which case can I boot windows from the USB caddy and will this then let me clone from here or will I have the same problem with the USB drive not being recognized prior to windows booting?
Another possibility seems to be to create recovery media and then swap drives and use recovery media to reinstall, will this do a complete clone? If I create recovery media on an external HDD, will this be bootable from (i.e. is it possibly the mSATA caddy that is the pre boot problem?)
Could I swap out my HDD with another I have lying around, clone to this then swap out mSATA drives and clone from HDD to new mSATA drive?
Any other suggestions? Any other questions/info required?
Many thanks to all who take the time to help
Mike


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I am supposing that your computer is using SSD cache technology to accelerate access to the spinning drive. Disable this feature temporarily as you perform your SSD migration (ie backup and restore, or clone), then turn it back on after the computer boots normally on the new SSD.
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Many thanks for all your help, migration successfully completed.
Mike
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