https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/how-to-change-ssd/m-p/16763#M6325 <P>I purchased <A href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/171829455776?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.ebay.com/itm/171829455776?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT</A> Sealed Kingston 120GB 6Gb/s mSATA SSDNow Solid State Drive SSD SMS200S3/120G.</P><P>How do I change SSD's and keep the existing system and data on the other 32GB SSD?</P><P>There is a 1TB extrenal HD attached.</P><P></P><P>dlw</P> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 02:00:48 GMT DWats3 2015-10-29T02:00:48Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/how-to-change-ssd/m-p/16763#M6325 <P>I purchased <A href="http://www.ebay.com/itm/171829455776?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://www.ebay.com/itm/171829455776?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT</A> Sealed Kingston 120GB 6Gb/s mSATA SSDNow Solid State Drive SSD SMS200S3/120G.</P><P>How do I change SSD's and keep the existing system and data on the other 32GB SSD?</P><P>There is a 1TB extrenal HD attached.</P><P></P><P>dlw</P> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 02:00:48 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/how-to-change-ssd/m-p/16763#M6325 DWats3 2015-10-29T02:00:48Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/how-to-change-ssd/m-p/16764#M6326 <P>Backup current SSD by external tools like Acronis, or by Windows Backup feature (full disk backup), to HDD, then restore to new SSD after replacing.</P> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 08:46:27 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/how-to-change-ssd/m-p/16764#M6326 AP16 2015-10-29T08:46:27Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/how-to-change-ssd/m-p/16765#M6327 <P>Thank you for replying.</P><P>I use Ubuntu so researching Acronis told me of Clonezilla.</P><P>I've downloaded it and will do research on how to use with Youtube.</P><P>Thanks again for replying.</P><P></P><P>dlw</P> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:07:16 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/how-to-change-ssd/m-p/16765#M6327 DWats3 2015-10-29T13:07:16Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/how-to-change-ssd/m-p/16766#M6328 <P>Don`t forget to include into backup system hidden partitions (EFI and MSR, two 100 MB-sized parts in beginning of SSD), otherwise you will loose Windows boot.</P> Thu, 29 Oct 2015 18:43:50 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/how-to-change-ssd/m-p/16766#M6328 AP16 2015-10-29T18:43:50Z