> You can clone the old drive to the SSD and once you have it booting with the SSD, you > can wipe the old drive. You'll probably need to choose the boot drive in the BIOS to > get it booting off the SSD. Or if you have a usb to sata adapter, you can remove the > old drive, boot off the SSD, then connect the old drive via USB and wipe it before > reinstalling it. > > I've had good luck with the free version of Macrium Reflect for doing the cloning on > two different laptops so far (new SSD drives)... > http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
Another vote here for Reflect, which is also a fabulous backup solution - you can mount an image as a network drive and just view/copy whatever individual files you might need very easily. -JW