Replacing notebook SATA hard disk with SSD without reinstalling

Posted by Graeme Donaldson on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Graeme Donaldson
Published on 2010-05-05T15:39:30Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 15:48 UTC
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So there's a notebook (Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m) with a SATA hard disk, the SATA controller is configured for native AHCI operation & the OS is Windows XP. The hard disk is going to be replaced with an SSD which is larger.

I have an idea of how I'm going to do this, but I want to be sure there isn't something obvious I'm missing.

  • Connect external USB drive
  • Boot some flavour of Linux live CD
  • Use dd to clone the SATA disk to the external drive
  • Power off and replace the SATA disk with the SSD
  • Boot the live CD
  • Use dd to clone back from the external drive to the SSD

Does anyone have anything to add?

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