Clone Stock HDD to New 850 EVO Pro - T440s

Hello All,
I was wondering if there is a good tutorial somewhere on the proper sequence of steps to successfully clone my existing HDD to the 850 Pro SSD.
I am most curious as to what bios settings needed to be made before, during, or after the cloning process (AHCI?)
I purchased a USB 3.0 to SATA cable to help with the process but don't know if I take the old drive out first and connect it to the cable, or connect the SSD to the cable and start the process.
Any help is appreciated.
Regards,
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Hi,
1. download cloning sw from Samsung's support site. That sw is free of charge.
2. connect new SSD to the usb-sata cable, keep HDD inside of the laptop. Will hope there is enough output on the USB port for SSD powering.
3. install sw you've downloaded and launch that one.
4. perform the cloning entire (!) HDD to the SSD, not selected partitions. You can even choose Auto mode. It'll resize the SSD partitions in the proportions HDD has. Later you can resize them yourself, manage as you need, using OS Disk Manager.
5. No needs to change BIOS Setup settings. Of course, AHCI mode is a right choice.
6. exchange drives, resize partitions, manage them. If the OS is win7, reinstall Lenovo R&R
Or use another free tool, Macrium Reflect. It has backup/restore features also.
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I bought a new Mac Book Pro and when moving my Numbers and Pages files to the new computer it will not allow me to open the files until I update them to Numbers 09 first. On my iMac I was running Numbers 08. Any suggestions how to tackle this issue?
Thanks,

Hi onnygirl,
Numbers 3 will not open Numbers '08 documents.
On your iMac, open and then export your Numbers '08 documents to Excel.
Transfer the Excel documents to your MacBook and they will open in Numbers 3.
Numbers is not an Excel clone, so there will be some glitches .
Regards,
Ian.

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