Installing replacement SSD on laptop

here it is.

You might consider storing backups on an external USB drive, and keep it offline when not doing backups.

If anything took out Disk 0 (ransomware, hard drive failure, etc.) SusanBackups on G: would be gone.

Curious said:

here it is.

I suppose drive 1 is the new SSD.
Did you already replaced the Old drive with the new SSD and booted from it?

You have 461G of unallocated space on the end of the disk. You can easy expand the Data drive (F:) to the end of the disk.

AddRAM said:

Hey, you said you were going to sleep

Is Disk 1 the old drive ?

Does disk 0 boot on its own ?

You need to label C and D. If D is your old OS and Disk 0 is booting on its own you can delete D and the recovery partition in front of it.

I thought you were replacing the old with a new Samsung, why does Disk Management still show 2 drives ?

It's next morning now.
I will replace the old HDD with the new ssd. I just haven't done it yet in case it does not boot up. That is why Disk Management shows both hdds: the old HDD and the ssd still attached via usb adapter.

I will now do the exchange and hope the laptop boots up.

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SUCCESS!!
With my heart in my mouth, I picked up my courage and replaced the HDD with ssd — and the laptop booted up just fine.

This may seem like small stuff for you guys but to an enduser like me the stress was huge. But all's well that ends well. I will mark this thread as solved (once I find out where to do it). Thank you all. You've been a great help.

One final question: do I need to change anything in the BIOS or windows because it is now running an ssd?

Good to hear it booted as expected.
You don't need to do anything on BIOS.

Did you expand the Data drive (F:) to the end of the disk?

To mark the thread as solved, you'll find a green button and the bottom of the page.

Megahertz said:

Good to hear it booted as expected. You don't need to do anything on BIOS. Did you expand the Data drive (F:) to the end of the disk? To mark the thread as solved, you'll find a green button and the bottom of the page.

I will expand the Data drive. I just haven't got around to it. Also the "Backup" partition was just a temporary one I created for data transfer. That's why I did not need it on the new ssd. All backups go to 2 alternating external hdds.

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One last question. Windows is currently set to regularly defragment the hdd. Sould I disable that for the ssd?

Curious said:

One last question. Windows is currently set to regularly defragment the hdd. Sould I disable that for the ssd?

No need, Windows optimisation will not defrag an SSD, it will Trim it instead. Regardless of how frequently you schedule optimisation Windows will only retrim an SSD once a month. More on that here:

SSD Trim Windows 10 - post #2

Here's one of mine: