Samsung 700Z5C-S02 SSD install - clone Windows/Samsung restore?

Hi there all, new here so be gentle! I've scoured as many posts as I can trying to come up with the answer to this relatively simple question, so I'll just start a topic and ask it directly...

Got this from Best Buy last week as a work computer and love it - it shares many traits with my MBP that I love so much.

Anyway, onto my question...I've got a SSD that I'd like to use in place of the installed 1TB drive. I've got the laptop open with no problem - that's not the hard part. What's boggling my mind is getting the OS onto the SSD. I've booted into recover mode, have burned the recover drive onto a 32gb flash drive but my computer goes into a "boot loop" when I installed the SSD.

So is there any detailed, step by step process that will walk me through either cloning the contents of my HDD to my SSD or a way to simply use Samsung's recover feature so that my laptop will work with the SSD?

This is my first Samsung laptop and as I said, I'm very impressed, but this one issue is really frustrating.

Thank you for any and all assistance you can offer.

 

I second your request for a tutorial

 

Ok well the fact that there's at least someone else out there that's in my same position gives me hope. I found this:
How to transfer data from an HDD to an SSD - YouTube

But I couldn't get it to work. Burned the .iso to DVD and everything, but no dice.

So yeah, I'm all ears.

 

Anyone, anyone? Bueller?

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/search.php?searchid=799253

This guy has done it in the same machine. I suggest you kindly ask him for some help via pm.

 

When I click on that link, I get "Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."

I'll just go to Geek Squad and see if they can help me out and if not I'll just use the 1TB that came with my laptop.

 

This is what I did with a Crucial M4 with data-transfer kit and EZGig cloning software:

1. Backed all my data, media, my docs, pictures, etc. to an external USB drive and deleted them from the 750GB Samsung HDD. This left 2 partitions: 60GB of Win 7 files and applications on the C drive, and a blank D partition.
2. Defragged, ran CC cleaner, and cloned the HDD to the SSD using the included Data transfer cable and EZ Gig IV cloning CD included with the SSD. It took about 40 minutes to clone and another 40 to verify.
3. Opened up the laptop, removed the Samsung HDD and replaced it with the Crucial SSD.
4. Turned it on and changed the boot order in my bios so the SSD was 1st.
5. It booted to the Win 7 logon screen in about 20 seconds, and everything loaded up in about 5 more!
6. Pulled out the DVD drive and replaced it with the original Samsung HDD.
7. Put everything back together, and then booted up and Optimized Windows 7 for the SSD (TRIM enabled, turned off Defrag, Hibernate, Superfetch and Prefetch, etc.), and verified 4k alignment.
8. Ran benchmarks to verify performance was consistent with that found by SSD review articles I found online (and it is!).
9. Copied all of my data, media, and documents back to my HDD (in the ODD bay) from the external USB.

All-in-all, the cloning process was very smooth and I didn’t encounter any issues – it took approximately 2 hours altogether.

 

I gave up. I just put my HDD back in.

 

Don't give up - the SSD upgrade changes your whole experience of the machine. No other upgrade has produced a speed increase to match this. Everthing loads in a few seconds, even notoriously slow-to-open applications like iTunes, Outlook, etc.

 

I'm heading to Best Buy (where I bought the laptop) to see if the Geek Squad can figure it out. If so, great and if not I can't say I didn't try to figure this out.

 

I take it your SSD didn't come with a data transfer kit? That made my process really easy.