Laptop Hard Drive to SSD Upgrade

customer contacted me the other day said their laptop is running slow I recommended a solid-state drive replacement because they have a mechanical drive currently in this Sony Vaio laptop when I pick up a laptop from a customer I'd always tell them I need the laptop itself and power supply with the power cable that's it and I want your mice I don't want your dongles I don't want any other accessories I don't even sometimes customers give me the laptop bag I don't want that that's the kind of stuff that gets forgotten when bringing the computer back to the customer or when the customer comes to pick the computer up and it results in another trip from somebody and they're none too happy about it whoever it is who ends up being the one it has to either deliver it or pick it up so best to just if the customer shows up with those items send them home with those items what we're going to upgrade this to is a Samsung 850 Evo one terabyte solid-state drive and while I was sticking the laptop up the customer said you know I've got these little parts do you want them I said what is it he says I don't know what it is I've had them for years it in this box it's just 56 K PCI fax modem I just want to share this because a lot of the viewers are young and they don't even they know a cable modem but a dial-up modem what's that I was really surprised when I open the box because it was kind of heavy and in the box he's got sure enough just what's advertised on the Box a 56k pci fax modem and you used to plug this into your motherboard and hook it up to your phone line and you would dial out to AOL or an isp of some sort and get a very very slow internet connection but of course we weren't watching youtube videos it would have been it would have not been possible with a 56k modem and a 56k modem can't even transmit data at 56 K and what you understand what I'm saying 56 K not 56 megabits or 56 megabytes or 56 gigabit or 56 2 gigabyte 56 K all right slow we've got a little speaker on there but what surprised me when I looked in the box is apparently he upgraded his modem and this is going to bring back memories for a lot of you guys out there this is a good old classic is a if you look at the connector it's an is a connector Peck's modem actually I don't know if this will do faxes I assume it will and I don't know what the speed of this one is looks like it's also 56 K and it's made by US robotics and this was the gold standard in modems and back in the day you just didn't plug this in like you kids can do today oh no we had these things called jumpers jumpers still exists today on motherboards for clearing biases and things like that but you had to set the comport in the irq and you couldn't have two devices sharing the same irq so the more hardware you had in your computer you had to manually set all this this is when you bought something it would last a really long time I'm sure this modem probably still works great today look at the size of the speaker on this thing I'm trying to remember what these sold for I want to say they're about 50 years from somewhere between 50 and 75 dollars and we use these before the internet primarily we use these to go on to bulletin board systems which were people who simply had the computers hooked in the phone lines with special software that would answer the phone and have message boards and then you would leave a message and hang up and somebody else would call them and read the messages and respond and just like forums are today on the Internet but only one person could use them at a time and what you would do is you just have to keep dialing the bulletin board number over and over and over again it would keep there's a thing called a busy signal many kids today don't know what a busy signal is they don't understand the difference between a dial tone and the busy signal if you ask twelve-year-old kids today they think they know most of them but they've never heard one so so the busy signal would just go and and and and and then the modem would auto detect that hang-up and then based on an amount of time you set whether it was two seconds or three minutes or whatever it was it dial back just keep dialing so as soon as that person hung up hung up with the bulletin board system then you could login you'd have a name and password and you could send private messages separately email because it you had to log into that specific bulletin board everything was isolated to the phone number that you were calling some people who were real enthusiasts with bulletin boards had multiple modems and they could have you know six or seven or eight lines all coming in and that would probably cost them about sixty to eighty dollars a month per line to provide that service and so symbol it's more systems you had to pay subscriptions for to help offset the cost of not only the electricity that this thing was using but the cost of just all the landlines going into somebody's house usually in a bedroom somewhere was easily you know five six hundred dollars a month if you had multiple lines so you know we don't really use landlines anymore and the rates the monthly rates for phone service is are a lot cheaper today you know back then if you wanted to dial across town you have to dial a one first and then you would be charged per minute for every minute you were on that call whether you were talking are you around the computer for 16 hours you didn't even realize how much time went by then you got the bill in the mail so that's what it was like and I just accepted this from the guy just to give you that little education about how things used to be where we were and where we are now might be fun to look back at this video in 10 years and see what we're doing next with fiber optics and who knows holographic crystals platinum we'll see what happened let's get back to the job at hand we have a sony vaio laptop with a mechanical hard drive it's running slow I have no need to turn this on because I already logged in remotely for this customer and I did a full system cleanup just to see if that would be fast enough and it's still well it's improved customer still wants it to be you know faster I've never had a customer tell me anything is too fast and to slow it down so I'm not surprised by this what we have to do is verify that this hard drive is going to fit before we go any further I did look up online what the specs were for the connector on the hard drive but you've got to watch the thickness on some really thin laptops they use like seven millimeter hard drives and the Samsung Evo is the 850 Evo is thicker than that if it gets 10 millimeter if I'm not mistaken but whatever it is if it's too thick it's not going to fit in there and let me just grab my screwdriver here I need to use a smaller screwdriver a thinner tipped screwdriver that I normally use for computer builds because these laptop screws are really tiny in fact this screwdriver even appears to be too large to get these screws in it maybe not got it to bite there so let's take that one out once again magnetized screwdriver highly recommend it if you're going to work on computers yeah screwdriver is just a smaller an actual smaller screwdriver would be a little bit better little easier but I am getting it in there it is it is turning the screw and if you ever want to know where your lap how to open your laptop or find certain parts if you're brave enough to do that you can certainly just go to google and search for the make and model of your laptop followed by the words disassemble or remove hard drive and there are probably plenty of YouTube videos and and how to's that are already done for practically every make and model of laptop they all pretty much open up differently and I'm sort of doing this blind here trying to figure out how this cover comes off I see there's a little there's a little notch right here and I'm guessing you lift up yeah there it is and yeah there's our hard drive right in here and the screws got even smaller I don't know if this was going to I am still going to work we've got a screw here in one corner it's not look like the same threw still like to keep the pairs separated to put them back just the way they came out not necessarily every screw back in the same hole but all the hard drive screws back to the hard drive all the hard drive cover screws back to the hard drive cuddle sometimes there's a difference sometimes the length of the screw sometimes they are drive ones have little bits of Loctite sealant on them as I see on these and with those two screws removed we there's a little plastic tab you'll see this a lot on laptops and that's for you to grab and pull the laptop back I'm sorry now pull the hard drive back and you'll see that it's exposed the connector I just lift up on it and I can remove it and I can verify this is just a standard every day two and a half inch mechanical hard drive this is a Western Digital 500 gig BBE VT it's pretty standard hard drive this has a manufacturing date of November 2010 this hard drive is towards its end of life and it was another reason it's a good idea to replace it before it fails all mechanical hard drives fail typically within three to five years we're on almost year seven and 12 year six-and-a-half be a little more accurate and it's on borrowed time as far as I'm concerned and of course you've seen how technology is advanced in the last six and a half years you know our hard drives today are much much faster the solid-state technology pretty much didn't even exist or if it did it was solely in college campuses and research and development facilities and was probably thousands multiple thousands of dollars for the tiniest little solid-state drive it doesn't even work anywhere near as fast as our drives do today so what I'm going to do now that I verified the drive is going to fit I'm going to put this back in it kind of sits in a little track which requires okay I see what I'm going to do these little posts that stick up they have to go in first and slide back then we can set the front down and it should be flush and then slide it forward I don't need to screw it back into place I don't need to put the cover back on I'm going to go ahead and turn the laptop around and plug it in this is a really easy job to do it does take a little bit of time but using the right tools it's a pretty painless anybody can really do it if you have the right tool so the first tool I want is a hard drive doc there's no particular maker model of hard drive doc that I recommend look at Amazon reviews or Newegg reviews this one's made by Cente it's really inexpensive it'll take a regular desktop hard drive or a laptop hard drive that has with SATA interface and it's just like a little hard drive toaster we're going to take the hard drive out of the box right here and with the static connector matching the static connector in the dock we're just going to put that in one too difficult so far right I've got the USB cable for the dock and the dock is plugged into power that's all there is to that get these boxes out of the way and I'm going to go ahead and plug that right into any USB port on the laptop the next tool I use is a Cronus now there are multiple cloning utilities you can use free alternative I like to use a Cronus I was able to buy a Cronus on sale for $20 I don't get any special deals on it they don't send it to me for free it's like 50 bucks at a Cronus comm it's a little cheaper than that at Amazon and if you watch the sales or if you belong to a computer user group you can get it as cheap as fifteen dollars do be aware when you buy an inexpensive copy of a Cronus that you're not buying last year's model so this was a Cronus 2017 every year there's a new version and it's to keep up with the different formats like MBR and GPT as well as the different ways that the operating system recognizes the hard drive so using an older version of a Cronus is fine with an older version of Windows and we do have an older version of Windows on this so we're okay which are always better off using the newest version just to avoid any potential issues and what you do is you don't actually install the Acronis software at all I never install the software what I do is when the product arrives whether I bought it online or you know that's a software download or it arrived as a package and a retail package in the mail which is what minded you create a free account at Acronis comm and you register your product with the serial number that it was included with it now for life you can log into a Cronus you can lose your serial numbers you can lose your box you can lose the software your login to a Cronus and they have downloadable images and programs that you just paid for available to you for the life of a Cronus's website so you know I can go all the way back to 2009 if I still want to download 2009 what I download is what's called the rescue iso image the other advantage to downloading the program is the version of the program in the box may not be the latest version of the version you bought so in other words there may have been four different versions of Acronis 2016 as they improved it throughout the year then they come out with the Kronus 2017 and all the improvements for 2016 stock that won't get any better after that point and then throughout 2017 there will be updates to the program that address particular bugs or issues that people experience and report to across and then those are addressed and updated and so there you go you just go to the website download it and then create your bootable USB stick now we want to go from the source drive which is the drive in the laptop to the target drive because the strive is brand new out of the box the Kronus is smart enough that it defaults all those values it says there's no partition on this clearly you're not wanting to clone this one this is the one that's got a partition and data if you just keep clicking next on the clone it will just follow right through however if you're using a drive that's been used before pay very very careful attention to which direction your cloning them make sure you clone your source to your target there's no undoing this unless you made a backup before you begin which is always a good idea now it can be tricky to figure out how to get a machine to boot to the USB flash drive and once again I would encourage you to use Google to type in the make and model of your computer be it a desktop or a laptop to figure out which buttons are keys or how to get into the BIOS and what you need to adjust all that information is available at your fingertips please don't ask that question here in the comment section it's not what it's for the information is there simply types the very same question you were going to type in the comments section type it into Google instead and those answers will be provided to you for free now here you can see it's starting Windows 7 we clearly did not start from the USB flash drive so I need to step around so I can see what's going on I as I was talking I get the power button it just defaulted to boot to Windows which is what it's supposed to do see the flashdrive flashing hence the name flash drive actually because it's flash memory that's alright now we see the starting Acronis loader and we want it reload a Cronus true image we can do the 64 bit just a little bit faster 32 bit would probably work as well but if you've got a 64 pit if you have a 64 bit CPU then you might as well use the 64 bit version of a Cronus but for backward compatibility for people who have a 32 bit CPU which would be many many years old Acronis does still support that with the latest version at 2017 it takes a moment to load not too long and this is your Acronis homepage now at this point I'm going to go ahead and turn the hard drive dock on there's a little power switch in the back and a light just came on and I need to give a Cronus about 45 seconds or so for it to acknowledge and register the USB device that's the same in Windows you don't just plug use USB device in and immediately start using it you have to wait that moment where Windows acknowledges it can initializes it now of all the options on the screen here on the left side it matches what's on the top most of what's on the top I'm going to go to tools and utilities and the option is to clone the disk we want that option and we're going to choose automatic and it next it's already defaulting disk one as the source hard drive and that shows it's 465 point 8 gigabytes which round it out if you do a thousand 24 per K that's 500 gigs so we're going to hit next remember I'm not changing am just clicking next all the way through this now with analyzing what potential target drives or destination drives we have and the only one is going to find is that one but be patient here is if analyzing the mechanical drive and you can move like in this case we're going from a 500 gig to a terabyte no problem but what if that was only a 250 could we go from a 500 to a 50 to a 250 with a Cronus you can as long as the amount of data you have on all the partitions on the drive total less than 250 it'll work you can't put 10 pounds of junk into a five-pound bag right so that's simply not possible but is but some harddrive cloning utilities especially hardware drive cloning utilities only clone sector by sector so if you have a 500 gigabyte hard drive it doesn't care how much data is on it it actually closed each sector so you need to drive that has the same number of sectors or more to clone that drive regardless of the amount of data Acronis is more intelligent than that and in a Cronus will resize the partitions automatically so it's all really good stuff so usually this doesn't take this long for a Cronus to analyze source disk however do be patient with it because depending on how much de you've got how old and how slow your drive is or your CPU is or how much RAM you have this will vary and what we're here talking check out my arcade marque in the background there I got a good friend of mine named Dave who made that for me and what I'm planning to do is I've got a bunch of different arcade Marty's and I'm going to swap them out with different classic video games of the 80s and have them in the background so keep your eyes open for that in future videos and you know he I can't work with wood at all I'm not good at it my friend Dave made that for me and I needed it so that I could open it up really easy and change them Artie's out and I actually love it I think it's the coolest thing ever I hope you guys enjoy a little nerdy background stuff I put in my videos all right so finally it says select the target hard disk from the list below and what's showing up is our little 2 gigabyte flash drive which is obviously too small and it shows disk number 3 which is not initialized it shows it's 930 1.5 gigs remember a K is 1,024 that so it does work out to one terabyte or 1000 gigabyte so I've just selected that and I'm going to click Next once again it's going to initialize and do the math that it needs to do and it's going to say here's what the partitions look like now on your source drive which is completely empty here's what they're going to look like after it's copying the recovery partitions all the stuffs only puts on there it's going to be an exact mirror image of the hard drive we have now which means had I not clean this drive up prior we'd be moving over ten files and system restore points going back years and years we'd be potentially moving over viruses and spyware it moves every bit of data it doesn't care what it is if there's data in the in on the hard drive it moves it we're going to go and hit proceed and now we can walk away for a little while depending once again and how much actual data you're moving how fast your USB port is you know that USB two or three or one how fast the drive you're copying to is and how fast the CPU and how much memory you have is all variables and how long this is going to take my advice is to simply walk away all right well that's it quite a while almost three hours I think and normally doesn't take that long but again really depends on the amount of data and the performance of the computer and the speed of the USB port so we're not really seeing the advantage of the solid-state drive just yet you'll see clone disk operation succeeded we can click OK and we can close a Cronus with the red X there in the corner like you would close any other application it actually starts to shut down and reboot I'm going to hold the power button down until the system powers off and now I'm going to remove the Cronus rescue disk or whatever they like to call that nowadays bootable disk and unplugged power from the laptop now come around here because now it's just a final part of swapping the drives also have to make sure I cut power to the drum to the USB Drive doc we don't want to insert or remove any hard drive from a USB dock that's plugged in and turned on so just to verify that powers off we're going to unplug it and then here on the laptop once again I'm going to remove the hard drive as I showed you earlier the hard drive is in this little drive caddy pay attention to which direction the connectors come out of it it's only going to fit in one way and sometimes even wrap a little tape on the edges you might have to remove that and there are just four screws holding the drive into this caddy and there are two on each side I'm just going to set them right here for right now drives pretty warm again magnetized screwdriver very useful when working on computers highly recommended nope this is exactly why good example those things are flying all over the place part of this is me rushing through this I recommend you take your time and go slowly after you've done it about 4,000 times you might find you go through the process a little bit quicker so what I'm going to do is rotate the drive with the connector facing this way and take our brand new drive and also face the connectors in the same direction and I'm simply going to lift the caddy off and put it onto the new drive then I don't have to worry about which direction did it come off the old hard drive because it still works I'm going to give this back to the customer and recommend they stick it in a drawer or safe this is a backup now because it's not going to be updated as a backup what I recommend they do after about a year or whenever they feel comfortable is if they're having a particularly bad day with their computer to take this out to their driveway with a hammer and smash it if they want to make sure that none of the data on this drive will ever fall into the wrong hands you really just want to smash the heck out of it and it's worth the value of therapy alone on a bad day ultimately he could also get a USB enclosure and use this as an external drive for updating backups but because of its age given that this drive is seven years old or six and a half years old I don't anticipate it's got much life left in it but that's the choice for the customer to make not for me so I'll set that aside these drives are exceptionally fragile I always warn the customers that they're fragile you don't want to drop them or kick them or step on them and now I just need to line up our new drive mounting holes which is just very very easy you will need to use both hands to do this my magnetic screwdriver is not as magnetic as I would like it to be so it's dropping the screws a little bit there so securing this back into the caddy don't have to over tighten those screws once they stop that's as far as they need to go now we're going to put the drive right back in and every laptops a bit different like I said you can visit some YouTube videos use Google and find out how the hard drive comes out of yours some laptops are easier than others this one's served in the middle it's not super easy and not super difficult and as I recall we pulled screws come out from the top it's a little confusing because there are four holes for screws to go into but two of them are being used by this cover so the two closest to the camera are going to be filled by the screws that hold the cover on so don't struggle as this tip of the screw when you're going to put the cover back on to the screws not going in you might be trying to screw to just put the screw on top of another screw if you didn't put it back together the same way you took it apart you know don't be afraid to break your camera phone out and take some pictures of it as you take it apart so you have a reference to go back to no harm in that cost you nothing and make sure your you know you look at the pictures you took to make sure they're going to be useful to you during focus which you close enough shots that you can see what you're going to need to see when you go to put it back together so you like this cover it just doesn't flap on you actually have to put the back on it first and then there's some clips that's has to click into place and then we can put the two screws in it now as you recall I showed inadvertently I showed you how long this computer took to boot so we'll fire it up here and we'll see if it boots up any faster windows may need to be reactivated which shouldn't be any problem whatsoever or it may not and then windows will detect new hardware which would be the hard drive it will load the driver and then it should want to restore it restart the computer and then that should be it so this one last screw and we are done you can see being a technician there's a lot of waiting that gets done waiting for virus scans you're waiting for file clean ups drive clean ups rather you're waiting for help transfers a lot of waiting and that's why working on site is very discouraged because if I did a job like this on site I'd be stuck at somebody's house for four hours and at $125 an hour customer would think you were crazy because they could buy you the laptop for that much money not including the three or four hundred dollars they spent on this one terabyte solid-state drive all right here we go and see what happens another thing is power button there it is after that glare off there you could do your own counting you can look down at the video time ticker to see how long this takes to boot I won't put any edits in its just so you can get a realistic okay couldn't even get the system what an amazing difference and then of course when we log into it you'll see we've got a lot more free space our Cronus does that partitioning resizing automatically also if you needed to Windows has built-in partition resizing and once again you can use Google and YouTube if you want to resize your partitions differently than how a Cronus does it automatically those utilities are available built in the windows and also there are utilities both paid and free of different qualities and easels of Utes more some are more intuitive than others that you can download and learn more about using Google and YouTube search but for the most part just letting a Cronus do its thing 99 times out of 100 maybe 999 times out of a thousand it's exactly the way you're going to want it so we still have all the recovery files for the Sony Vaio on the hard drive all those recovery partitions are there it is an exact mirror image of this original hard drive right here and this really is one of the best upgrades you can give to any desktop or laptop computer with regards to really noticing the speed improvement you know having at least eight gigs of ram and putting a solid-state drive in to any computer that has a SATA 3 interface or even SATA 2 is a worthy upgrade that the end user will notice the difference and you could take a computer that's so frustrating to use you're ready to buy a new one and after just changing the solids you know the old mechanical drive to a solid-state drive this thing will fly again and get another 2 or 3 years out of it before you're going to need to replace it with Windows 7 on this you know Windows 7 is good until January of 2020 so as long as he doesn't lose this laptop or drop it or spill something on it he's likely good until windows 7 expires and then I'd recommend buying a new laptop and when he does that I suggest taking the old well not the old but the SSD we just put in it that'll be three years old in 2020 take that out put it in an external USB enclosure and you that for backups or data transfers or whatever you want to do you don't have to chuck it out with a laptop that's the beauty of this upgrade I hope you found this video educational and entertaining I hope it has some value to you and I look forward to seeing you again very very soon until then bye for now

Channel: CareyHolzman

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Id: Q-9pYHYKLUw

Length: 32min 29sec (1949 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 12 2017