Upgrade Lenovo Hard Drive to SSD without Reinstalling Windows

By Achilles Hill | Last Updated January 03, 2024

"My Lenovo Yoga laptop has been used for three years and it runs slowly now. It is on Windows 10 system. I want to upgrade the hard drive with a larger SSD. Is there any way to upgrade Lenovo hard drive to SSD without reinstalling Windows?"

Yes, after you have used the laptop for years, you will find that its performance cannot satisfy you. For some users, they will defragment the hard drive in Windows 10 or uninstall the software to make it work faster. However, it does not help a lot. The most effective way is to upgrade the laptop hard drive – no matter it is HDD or SSD, to a larger SSD that fits your laptop. Here we will tell you how to upgrade hard drive to SSD in Lenovo laptop.

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How to Upgrade Hard Drive to SSD in Lenovo Laptop

Make SSD in ready

If you are going to upgrade your Lenovo laptop with the SSD, the most important thing is to find a larger capacity SSD that satisfies your drive form factor and interface: M.2 SSD or SATA SSD. Then you need to:

1. Connect the SSD with Lenovo laptop with the help of USB-to-SATA adapter.
2. Initialize the SSD and allocate new volumes to the SSD. You must ensure that the new SSD has the larger capacity than old hard drive.

Clone Lenovo hard drive to SSD without Reinstalling Windows

After you finish the preparation work, you can clone the hard disk system and data to the SSD with CloneGo. Just as its name implies, CloneGo enables you to clone everything from hard drive to SSD without losing the data on Lenovo.

Step-1: Install Windows disk cloning software CloneGo.

Step-2: Hit the Disk Clone option in the left menu. Then you can select the source disk and partition disk. There is no doubt that your source drive is Lenovo original disk and the destination disk is the SSD.

select source and target disk

Step-3: Start the clone process. Click the Start button on the right-bottom and click Yes to start the disk cloning.

start hard drive clone process

After you finish the clone process of the whole disk, you can shut down the computer and replace the old hard drive with the SSD.

Replace Lenovo hard drive with the new SSD

How can we make the new SSD work for the laptop? Here you can move the old hard drive and install the SSD with the cloned system on your Lenovo laptop to speed up the performance.

1. Disconnect the SSD with Lenovo laptop and shut down the laptop.
2. Remove the backup panel.
3. Unscrew the hard drive and take it out.
4. Put the SSD into the place where old hard drive is took out. And you need to screw it safely.
5. Cover the back panel back.
6. Turn on the laptop and you will see it boot normally and all programs and setting are the same.

replace lenovo hard drive with SSD

If your Lenovo laptop has two slots for the hard drives, you can directly install the new SSD into the slot. Then, restart the computer and press F2/F10 all the time to enter boot menu; set the laptop to boot from the new laptop. As the SSD has the cloned Windows system, you can do everything freely now.

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