I've used Crucial.com for years, and they also include the clone Acronis for free as well with their drives - for 1 clone I believe. Also, the Crucial site can scan your Dell and tell you the exact model's that fit your system. I think it cost about $280 for a 1tb or so.

Personally, I like to rebuild my HD as fresh during this replacement, and restore the original OS from Dell to it and work from there. I know its a lot of extra work, but to me really cleans a lot of stuff up.

>>>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
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>>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.
>
>Thank you!
>That would be great if I could close the existing drive. If you don't mind my question, the utility has be installed on the existing drive to "copy" the data somewhere and then "Paste" it back, once I replace the drive?