Using the CloneZilla ‘restoredisk’ feature, restore the image created earlier onto to your new 512GB module, wiping everything on the SSD when it asks you (and then asks you again. I’m going to jump past the mistakes so that I describe a coherent process, pointing out the lessons learned at the end. Now here’s where my little ‘journey’ began. Locate the mSATA unit (under some plastic), remove the single screw holding it and replace with your shiny new chip. Lift up the cover on the USB port side and then away over the power switch.
Remove all the screws from the back cover one by one, remembering the one under the system info cover. Tool-wise you’ll need T6 star screwdriver (about 1mm) and a PH0 philips screwdriver.
#How to clone hard drive to ssd with paragon 14 upgrade#
The physical upgrade is quite straightforward. You’ll need to disable ‘Secure boot’ and enable ‘Legacy’ bios from within Setup in order to boot to cd-rom – tap F2 at the Dell logo to enter setup, then after rebooting tap F12 at the Dell logo to select your cd-rom drive to boot. If you’ve got some fancy SSD-to-SSD cloning kit, that’s great, personally I used the CloneZilla live bootable cd-rom from a USB external optical drive and imaged the entire SSD drive to a USB external hard drive. My scenario: brand new XPS12 unit, not even switched it on, going to upgrade the factory fitted 256GB SSD with a new Samsung 512GB mSATA module (PN: MZMTD512HAGL) before 1st boot.įirst things first, you need your new drive to contain what the old drive currently does.
I made so many mistakes doing this upgrade.I hope that I can help you to avoid them. They will honour the warranty if the original drive is (re)fitted. Dell have advised that if you upgrade the SSD then your XPS12 will no longer be covered under warranty (whilst it’s fitted) nor any impact from the upgrade process.