A Guide to Finish Lenovo Ideapad 330 SSD Upgrade Securely

User case: Is the Lenovo Ideapad 330 upgradeable?

"I have bought a Lenovo Ideapad 330. But the storage is only standard HDD and therefore there's going to be some overhead from slow loading times. I'm thinking of adding a 128GB SSD where I store the OS and such so booting and loading times improve. Can this be done? How so? What if I have the OS already installed on the HDD, how can I load it from the SSD? Thanks in advance."

Typically, many users choose to replace the hard drive with an SSD in their Lenovo IdeaPad 330 laptops for more sufficient storage space and improve computer performance. Upgrading an SSD can also happen when the hard drive fails causing the computer to not boot properly, etc. In this guide, step-by-step instructions will show you how to upgrade SSD on Lenovo Ideapad 330 laptops. Let’s get started.

Stepwise guide to enable Lenovo Ideapad 330 upgrade SSD

The process of Lenovo Ideapad 330 m.2 SSD upgrade is relatively simple and you can easily achieve this by following the steps below.

Step 1. Make preparations

► Connect the target SSD. You can connect the SSD externally or internally according to your Lenovo Ideapad 330 laptop type. If there’s only one drive bay, you should connect the SSD to USB port via a SATA to USB cable.

► Before starting the cloning process, make sure you have backed up the important data on the SSD ahead because all the data in the destination will be overwritten in the cloning process.

Step 2. Transfer all data on HDD to the new SSD

To securely transfer all things from HDD to an SSD, you can’t just copy and paste data to the target SSD, the system won’t boot normally, thus reliable cloning software is necessary. AOMEI Backupper Professional is a powerful disk cloning software for Lenovo Ideapad 330 m.2 SSD upgrade.

This program is user-friendly and requires no technical expertise, which can help you clone a disk to the new SSD including operating system, system reserved partition or efi partition, installed programs, personal data, etc. You can upgrade the old hard drive to a new SSD of all common brands, including Samsung, Crucial, WD, etc.

Then you can have the powerful SSD cloning software AOMEI Backupper Professional downloaded on your PC to realize Lenovo Ideapad 330 upgrade SSD.

✍ Tip: This tutorial can also be applied to other computer hard drive replacement, including HP, Asus, Acer, Toshiba, Microsoft, etc.

1. Launch AOMEI Backupper. Click Disk Clone at the main page of Clone. To clone only C drive, click System Clone instead.

2. Select Lenovo Ideapad HDD as source disk and click Next. Then select the target SSD and click Next. 

3. Tick SSD Alignment to accelerate its read & write speed and click Start Clone to execute the task.

Step 3. Replace the old hard drive with new SSD

After the cloning process is done, shut down your Lenovo Ideapad laptop, and you may use a screwdriver to open the back panel of the computer to replace the old hard drive with the new cloned SSD. That’s for the Ideapad 330 with one slot. If there is more than one, you can remain the old drive, just add the new SSD to the drive bay.

FAQs about Lenovo Ideapad 330 m.2 SSD upgrade

Summary

From this tutorial, you can learn how to finish Lenovo Ideapad 330 SSD upgrade, which is quite simple and no time-consuming. You just need to transfer all the data with AOMEI Backupper to the new SSD, and use a screwdriver to install it into the Lenovo Ideapad laptop. It can also help you solve Samsung Data Migration does not start.

After you finish the process, you can reuse the old HDD or SSD as secondary storage. Just use the disk wipe feature of AOMEI Backupper to wipe it completely. There are other powerful tools waiting for you to explore!