Then you read the comments and it's nothing but people complaining that the video is a hoax and you need to pay for premium in order to clone as the video described. My next question is what program? That is GENUINELY FREE? The reason i stress this is because the YouTube videos i was going on were claiming use this program, it's free. You then run the cloning program, clone your drive, turn laptop off, switch drives and then job done, right? you plug your SSD to your laptop via an adapter in to the USB port. Ok so I had a look at some YouTube videos and i have a better grasp of what is involved now (provided the videos were accurate). if you don't mind trying a alternative to Windows, especially if your primarily using it as a basic internet machine and the like, I suggest giving Linux Mint a try. with that said, it might be possible to use Clonezilla (as mentioned already) to copy from HDD to SSD but people in general should still not be using Windows 7 at this point. this is standard practice if you ask me, especially if it's been years and you got a bunch of random junk on your laptop as it sits. It's not worth moving the install as is to your SSD as it's best to do a clean install to remove the junk and ensure your system is in optimal running order. then at this point, if you don't mind spending a little bit of $, could get one of those cheap USB laptop 2.5" HDD readers then connect the HDD via USB to your laptop and transfer in your important files to it and then wipe the drive and use that 500GB HDD for external storage backup. I would try the free upgrade to Windows 10 first (WIndows 7 is no longer supported as of Jan 2020), once you confirm it's activated, you could then remove the 500GB HDD and put your SSD into the laptop, then clean install Windows 10 to your new SSD.
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