Fast forward to today, and this laptop has seen its use drop off significantly, with the major complaint being “it’s so slow to start up, and it takes forever to do anything”. This is exactly what I was expecting to hear about this time when we made the purchase, and thankfully, I had a plan in mind at that time. This article will be a guide to that plan; replacing the factory HDD with an SSD for improved boot times and overall usability improvements. If this sounds like a scenario you are currently experiencing, sit back and read along, as we go through all the steps of upgrading from a hard drive to a solid state drive.