>Hi,
>
>I have a Dell Latitude laptop. And yesterday I started getting messages from Window that there is something wrong with the hard drive. Sorry don't remember exact message. The computer and the drive are about 4 years old.
>So I called Dell and they offered a SSD 1 TB drive to put in place of the existing drive.
>
>My questions are, please:
>1. The Dell support person says that since my existing drive is 2.5" and the SSD is 2.5" too, it will fit into the existing slot.
>Does this sound right?
>2. If I buy SSD drive, can I re-partition it just like I did with the existing conventional drive? To make C:, D:, and E: drives?
>
>TIA

Yes to both questions :-)
If the SSD drive is Samsung they have utility to clone your existing drive to new SSD disk.
So you don't have to install everything again.