Perform Acer Aspire SSD Upgrade without OS Reinstallation

Why make SSD upgrade in Acer Aspire?

To upgrade hard disk drive to solid-state drive in Acer Aspire laptop or desktop means that you can enjoy faster boot speed and read & writing speed; to replace small SSD with a larger SSD can solve disk full through gaining more disk space.

Some Acer laptop comes with HDD like Acer Aspire One 722 or with small SSD, such as Acer Aspire S7. To get a better experience, it’s wise to upgrade Acer Aspire HDD to SSD or SSD to large one.

How to perform Acer Aspire SSD upgrade easily?

Whether you replace HDD with SSD or SSD with a larger SSD in Acer Aspire laptop or desktop, it’s a time-wasting work to reinstall OS and all applications one by one on the new SSD.

To complete SSD upgrade in Acer without reinstalling OS and apps, you can clone old hard drive to new SSD in Acer computer. Here recommended you a professional & reliable disk cloning software, AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. It can be helpful whether you want to clone large HDD to smaller SSD or clone small SSD to a bigger one, it’s a great choice. It allows you to clone only system related partitions as well via its Migrate OS to SSD wizard.

To clone hard drive to SSD without reinstalling in Acer Aspire PC, connect the new SSD with your computer via the SATA to USB cable and make sure the SSD has been detected at first. Then, install AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional and follow the steps listed below:

☞ You can also download its demo version to have a try!

Step 1. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. Click "Clone" in the main interface, and select "Clone Disk".

Step 2. Choose the hard disk that you need to clone as the source disk and click "Next".

Step 3. Select another drive as the destination disk, and then click "Next".

Step 4. Then, you can check the source and destination disk in the next window or change to "Sector to Sector clone", and click the "Confirm" button to continue if there is no problem.

Here, you can also click the "Settings" button to adjust the partition size on the destination disk or tick "4k alignment" to improve the reading and writing speed of the SSD. 

Step 5. After returning to the main interface, check the pending operation and click "Apply" and "Proceed" to commit the operation.

Step 6. After finishing cloning, disconnect the new SSD drive and shut down your computer, unpack the panel underneath, replace the original hard drive with the new SSD. Then restart your Acer Aspire laptop, all the procedure of Acer Aspire SSD upgrade is done.

✍ Notes:
➣ This cloning software allows you to clone MBR to GPT disk. But when you clone MBR system disk to GPT SSD, your PC should support EFI/UEFI boot mode and you need to change boot mode from Legacy to UEFI after cloning.
➣ AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional is far more than disk cloning software and it allows you to split partition, convert MBR to GPT or GPT to MBR without losing data, change serial number and so on.
➣ AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional is for Windows 10/9.1/8/7, XP and Vista. To clone disk to disk in Windows Server, you can use AOMEI Partition Assistant Server.