Upgrade Advent Laptop Hard Drive to SSD Safely | 4 Steps

You will get the best way to upgrade Advent laptop hard drive to SSD in Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11. It's using professional SSD cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Professional.

By @Ivy Last Updated November 7, 2024

About Advent Laptop

Advent Laptop is a computer brand produced by Dixons Retail, one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe, including products such as Advent laptops, Desktop PCs, and wireless printers. Here we mainly talk about Advent laptop. 

Typically, the Advent laptop’s hard drive is a 250GB, 320GB, or 500GB hard drive. You might get a low disk space warning after a long time of use. That means there is not enough free space to install programs and store data. Also, your computer will be very slow to respond or even take too long to boot up.

Thus, many users want to upgrade Advent laptop hard drive to SSD to speed it up and improve overall performance.

What SSD is compatible with Advent Laptop?

Advent uses the SATA HDD, therefore, only the SATA SSD is compatible with the Advent laptop. The SATA SSDs include:

  • Samsung 860 EVO

  • Crucial BX500, MX500

  • Sandisk SSD Plus

  • Kingston A400

  • Western Digtal WD Blue 3D NAND

  • TEAMGROUP GX2

  • ADATA SU635

  • AcclamatorSSD

  • ...

If you are not sure, please consult for the manufacturer.

What Do You Need? 

Advent hard drive replacement is not an easy job, please do the following:

  • An Advent laptop with an existing hard drive (HDD).

  • A new larger SSD drive. Please initialize the SSD disk correctly and connect to the Advent laptop. Make sure Windows can detect it.

  • A screwdriver. It helps to replace Advent laptop hard drive. 

  • Free download professional SSD cloning software - AOMEI Backupper Professional. It's known for its reliability, excellent and well-rounded features, and intuitive interface.

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Why Choose AOMEI Backupper?
  • Clone the entire disk, system, or data partition. 
  • Bootable clone HDDs/SSDs, MBR/GPT disks.
  • Clone only used sector of a drive by default, greatly saving time and space. 
  • Clone large HDD to smaller SSD without boot issues.
  • Clone MBR disk to GPT without converting, or vice versa.
  • Improve SSD disk performance, i.e. read & write speed, as well as extend its lifespan.
  • Compatible with today's popular SSDs, such as WD, Crucial, Samsung, SanDisk, etc.
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How to Upgrade Advent Laptop Hard Drive to SSD

Here's how to upgrade Advent HDD to SSD. It's divided into two parts, namely clone and replace Advent laptop HDD with SSD. Let's get started.

1. Launch AOMEI Backupper Professional, and select Disk Clone at the Clone tab.

2. Pitch on the Advent laptop HDD as the source disk.

3. Choose the new SSD drive as the destination disk to upgrade Advent hard drive.

4. Tick SSD Alignment to improve SSD disk performance and click Start Clone to clone Advent laptop HDD with SSD.  

By default, it uses intelligent clone mode to clone a disk, so you can easily clone disk to smaller disk with a secure boot.

⚠️Notes:

  • Sector by sector clone: Clone all sectors of a drive, whether used or not, or blank and bad sectors.

  • Edit Partitions: Adjust the partition size of the destination disk to fully use its storage space. Or convert the disk partition style, from MBR to GPT, or not. 

After cloning, you need to start the Advent laptop hard drive replacement as follows.

  • Shut down the Advent laptop and disconnect the power supply as well as the battery.
  • Unscrew the screws on the Advent laptop back using a screwdriver.
  • Open the case and take out the original hard drive from its caddy.
  • Remove the new SSD from the external enclosure and put it in the caddy.
  • Cover the back case and restore the Advanced laptop as it was before.

Then, try to boot from it.

If it's not bootable, try to set the new SSD as the first boot option. Or check the boot made. MBR disk uses Legacy BIOS while GPT disk uses UEFI mode. For more info, check the cloned SSD won't boot page. 

The Epilogue

Upgrading Advent laptop hard drive to SSD is quite easy for AOMEI Backupper Professional. In addition, you are endowed with the ability to migrate OS to SSD, perform real-time file sync, command line clone, and many more.

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