How to Swap SSD and Reboot With a Back-Up Image of Original

I recently got a new Lenovo 13 with middle of the road specs and am upgrading the RAM and storage.

The RAM was a breeze and no problem.

The storage on the other hand is worrying me. I am pretty novice and need some advice on how to go about swapping the SSD. From other posts I concluded that I want to make a back-up image of the current SSD and use that to reboot the new one once installed.

So my question is how do I go about doing this. I understand how to make a back-up image onto an external drive, but beyond that am not entirely sure what to do.

Do I need to make a recovery disk? And if so can it be a bootable USB because the Lenovo 13 doesn't have a disk drive.

Would really appreciate a step-by-step run down of how to do this, or a link to something along those lines.

Thanks for any advice.

 

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The first thing you will need is a connection cable like this one it's a
usb to sata cable.


ALWAYS SHOP AROUND, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE CABLE.


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-To-SA...295284?hash=item25a82cc134:g:eNQAAOSwZG9WjT4b

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Aomei partition assistant standard


http://www.disk-partition.com/

or

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

It's called Mini partition wizard free


Connect your new drive to the cable, then using Aomei partition assistant standard
choose migrate os to ssd.


When the software has finished swap out the drives,done!


Sorry but all of the known software I would recommend has finished offering
their software for free for the function migrate os to ssd.

 

If you are only copying ssd to ssd drives,and have access to either
a large usb drive or external hard drive


There's another way but it's a little more complicated,
using backupper

http://www.backup-utility.com/free-backup-software.html


Choose backup, then system backup, in step 2 choose the external drive
as the destination. Start backup.


Next in the utilities section choose create bootable media you will need a usb
flash drive create the media.


When finished swap over your old ssd and install your new ssd.
plug in the usb drive then boot from the usb.

You may have to press f2 to enter the boot sequence on power up.

Your system should boot into the backupper program from the usb
choose restore, the alter the path it's the drive you copied the backup to.

It will then restore your complete system over to the new drive.

 

Thank you! I have an external drive and usb flash drive I will use to do the second method. I'll let you know how it goes.