How to Clone Your Hard Disk to an SSD Using Clonezilla Clonezilla is free and is OS-independent drive cloning software.

If you don’t have a Samsung SSD, then you won’t be able to use the Samsung Migration software — luckily, there’s some generic software that you can use to clone your hard drive over to an SSD.

Check this guide and learn how to effectively clone your HDD onto a new SSD. Enjoy the fast bootups and quick launch apps from the SSD.

In addition, make sure the drive you are cloning to has enough storage space to take all the cloned data. For instance, you wouldn't want to try and clone a 2TB HDD on to a 256GB SSD now would you?

It's an 80gb HDD and a 120gb SSD. What's the best way to clone the install, which is XP and Mint with a grub (?) loader.

I imagine I will need to take the laptop HDD out and hook it to my main computer and do some kind of clone process onto an SSD I have hooked to my main computer as well?

There are few ways to make a laptop faster that are as easy and cost-effective as replacing your existing hard drive with a solid state drive (SSD).