Swap HDD PSAAQE Equium A100 - 01 M - would be Crucial M4 work SATA III SSD 64 GB?

I have a friend in a bit of a State with their incredibly slow laptop; I have a spare old M4 of Crucial 64GB SATA and a couple of hours free in the morning. I said I would try to help and my plan is to swap the drives.

I see from the [Manual | http://www.toshiba.co.uk/innovation/tracker.jsp?file=http%3a%2f%2fsupport1.toshiba-tro.de%2ftedd-files2%2f0%2fuserman-en-20090212142351.zip] that there is a recovery partition.

I have one of these USB to SATA led and I really was hoping if someone could let me know something that Googling it has not revealed so far that is:

1: what SATA is this laptop? Is it 1 or 2? This player works on it?
2: what is the best method to copy the current structure of disk and partition? Preferably leaving the data not copied partition as this will be a full recovery.

Is that all I need to know?
Sorry if this IS answered elsewhere, but I have 2 hours to do, I do it for free, and I just googled this morning already.

Thank you!

Hello

> 1: what SATA is this laptop? Is it 1 or 2?

As much as I know the satellite and the Satellite A100 supports SATA I controller.
The two series are the same.

> This disc will work on it?
Well, since the SATA standard is backward compatible, the SSD should work but with lower performance.

> 2: what is the best method to copy the current structure of disk and partition?
There are different options. You can use the Toshiba Recovery disk to reinstall the system on the SSD drive. Personal data (documents, pictures, mp3, etc.) could be copied to a USB flash to move disk of the SDS.

You can also create an image of your partitions and after installing the SSD drive, you can use the image file to recover partitions

In some cases, manufacturers of SSDS provides tools/software specific to a product such procedure too.

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