Just installed SSD in my NB205 - mostly happy - it does "fly" now compared to "walking" before.

I'm happy to say that the installation of a 64 GByte SSD ($73 at crucial.com on sale, $10 off) has been successful.  I used an external USB HD that I had lying around to do a backup, and the installation recovered most of my User files - the only thing I found missing was my e-mail settings, and I don't store my e-mail on the NB, since it is not my main computer.
I did have to buy, as far as I could tell, the Toshiba recovery thumb drive for $40:
SW Media - USB-MINI NOTEBOOK-NB205-Windows 7 32bit Starter-EN for mini notebook
in order to re-install Windows 7 Starter.  Maybe someone can post with a work-around for that.  I tried to make a bootable thumb drive, but that didn't seem to work.  I would guess that the difficulty is the way Microsoft prevents pirating their OS.
The one mistake I made, was that the backup to a disk image didn't work for me, because a disk image has to be restored to an identical, or maybe a larger, disk, and I went from a 160 GByte HD down to a 64 GByte SSD.  
One other attempt can be made to restore added software and the updates would be to re-install the HD and do a different backup from which I could restore the rest of the stuff.
Responses to that would be appreciated.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I'm glad it's flying now!
The Toshiba Recovery Media Creator should be able to create bootable USB recovery media. Did you try it?
- Peter

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