Arborbridge wrote:Urbandreamer wrote:I'd recommend a slightly different model of mounting kit. I.E
https://www.amazon.co.uk/DEEPFOX-Intern ... tdGY&psc=1
Why?
Well it comes with cables and you will need a spare set when you clone the drive.
Won't I also need to start off with a SATA to USB cable to clone to drive hanging externally?
Arb.
Only if you clone it externally.
I wonder if you could post a bunch of photos of the inside of your PC? The simplest (and cheapest) option, if possible, would be to simply unplug the connector(s) going into your DVD drive and plug them into your SSD, then do the clone, and then replace the HDD with the SSD, both physically and connection wise, and replug the DVD connector(s).
If that's possible then you don't need to buy anything*, other than the SSD itself. Of course, it requires that the connector(s) going to the DVD are the same as go to your HDD, hence the request for photos. (I say connector(s) because SATA connections have two sections, power and data, and sometimes they're both in one connector at the drive end and sometimes two separate ones).
If that's not possible then you might still be able to clone it internally, but it will require that your motherboard has a spare SATA slot free. You may still not need to buy anything if your PC builder anticipated the possibility of adding another drive and left ready-to-plug-in cables in it, otherwise you'll (temporarily) need some as shown in that Amazon listing. Again, photos would be good.
If none of that's possible then there are two more options, one being that you get a USB->SATA cable and do the clone externally. I have one of these that works fine: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B011M8YACM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title.
The other, which would be my preferred option (as I've done it twice when drives failed on me) and was suggested by Bree above, if you already have some external storage, either a (big enough) USB drive or a NAS, would be to use Macrium Reflect (free version) to do a full system image backup to the external storage, create a recovery CD/small USB stick, physically swap the failing HDD with the SSD, then boot the PC off of the recovery drive and restore the image backup to the SSD. The advantage being that if anything goes wrong you still have a full backup of the system.
* You don't actually need a mounting kit for the SSD. They're such that you can just tape/blu-tac/cable tie them down.