

Mirroring hard drive to SSD is to make an exact copy from hard drive to SSD and the cloned SSD can be used to boot your computer successfully.

As usual, do a backup of all your data before you attempt to follow this tutorial.Honestly, replacing HDD with SSD is the best way to upgrade an old disk, gain better performance, avoid reinstalling Windows from scratch, and prevent data loss from hard drive failure, system crash, unexpected deletion, laptop stolen, etc. However, any other user-created folders in the C: drive will still be intact.Ģ. All the applications that you have previously installed will be lost. Reinstallation of Windows 7 will wipe the system folder, Program Files and My Document folders. Even after the reinstallation, your data will still be intact. The fact is, you don’t really have to reformat your hard drive to reinstall the OS. However, most people don’t like (or even hate) to do a reinstallation because it means that they have to reformat the hard drive and probably lost some of their precious data. The best choice for me is to reinstall the OS. Apps start to run sluggishly and I can’t even get the Windows update to function. For my Windows 7 machine, after countless installation/uninstallation of various applications (all for testing purpose), it starts to give way and behaves abnormally.

It is very common for WIndows OS to become sluggishly after some time, but when it reaches the point where you can’t get anything to run properly, you know that it is time to do a re-installation.
