Swap SSD's, reinstall windows, keep files/settings/programs etc

[Uncle Petey]

Right then, how to go about this if it's doable?

Situation:
PC with 60Gb SSD
Laptop with 120Gb SSD

I want to swap them (and obviously format them before reinstalling windows), but I want to keep the laptop files/programs/settings etc and restore them to the replacement SSD.

It's my mum's laptop and she use an external hdd for storage and therefore doesn't use/need 120gb. I do

Basically, I don't to be moaned at if she ends up having to reinstall programs and enter all her login passwords all over again etc...
It needs to be seamless. Like it never happened

Help a brother in need!

 

[Uncle Petey]

Yep. Waste not, want not

Win764 (both machines). Agility 3 SSD's (does it matter?), and god knows what the external drive is...

Would cloning the drive be an option?

 

[Uncle Petey]

Ok, cheers.

I may need a little bit of totally heterosexual handholding here
This is a little bit out of my sphere.

Btw, I could network the two and save the cloned image on my PC's HDD if that helps.
I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm fine with a simple windows installation.

 

[Uncle Petey]

Oh come on, it'll be fuuun

 

[Uncle Petey]

I'm not quite sure how to respond to that No, I don't believe I have... Although there was that one time I got really drunk and.. Woah.

Y'know what? There's 89gb free out of 111gb... Wasted, bloody wasted on her

EDIT: Okey dokes, I'm going in. Thank you very much if this works, damn you to blazes if it doesn't.


Nah, not really, cheers!

 

[Uncle Petey]

SUCCESS!

To cut a very long story short, I connected both drives to my PC and cloned the 120gb laptop drive data to the 60gb PC drive.
Put the 60gb in the laptop, reactivated windows and voila.

I just went with a totally fresh install for the PC though.

It's easy when you know what you're doing and what the results are going to be... I didn't, so it was a bit of an adventure.