#Linux clone hard drive to ssd free#

My SSD, SAMSUNG 850 EVO was absolutely blank, might be yours too as well. Create Partitions on the SSDĪfter successfully attaching the SSD, you need to partition it according to it's capacity and your choice. Here's detailed the tutorials, with MultiBootUSB and here's bootable USB with GRUB. You could use any method to create it, the dd approach will be the simplest. You'll need a bootable USB drive for letter steps, booting any live Linux distro of your choice, I used to Ubuntu.

#Linux clone hard drive to ssd free#

However the 'caddy' is the best you can do with your laptop.Įnjoy free shipping and One-Day delivery, cancel any time. Preferably a USB 3 adapter for better speed, like this one. Open up your laptop's DVD drive and get a rough measurement.īut if you don't want to play around with your DVD drive or there's no DVD at all, use a USB to SATA adapter. If the laptop has a DVD drive, then you could remove it and use a ' 2nd hard drive caddy'. On laptops it's a bit tricky, as there's no free SATA port. You've just have to connect the SSD to any of the free SATA ports and you're done. So you need to attach the both disk at the same time on your PC/Laptop.įor desktops, it's easier, as there's always at least 2 SATA ports on the motherboard. This tutorial should work on every Linux distro with a little modification, depending on which distro you're using, I was using Ubuntu.Īs you're going to copy files from the hard drive to the SSD. Of course it's not the only way to clone linux from HDD to SSD, rather it's exactly what I did after buying a SSD for my laptop. Read this tutorial carefully before actually cloning to SSD, anyway there's almost no risk of messing things up.Here we'll assume that it's not a dual boot system, only linux is installed on the hard drive.You should at least know what junks to exclude while copying the files, taking backup of important files is always good.You don't need to worry about the above, but you should clear up the existing hard drive as much as possible, I mean delete the junks.

As you're planning to move your existing linux installation to a SSD, there's a good chance that the SSD has smaller storage capacity(in GB) than the existing hard drive.

So, here's how you can clone HDD to SSD without re-installing the existing Linux distro and now be clear about few things. Overall system responsiveness is highly dependent on storage drive performance. No doubt the old spinning hard drives are the main bottleneck of any Linux PC.