Can I switch the hard drive with a SSD without copying it? I hate the preinstall softwares, and I wonder if it will cause any problems. I have OS disc
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You could take out the HDD and put a SSD in there and not have to worry about any software since those are all installed on the mSATA drives.
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Thanks very much for your help. I finally succeeded to replace my hard drive with the 128GB SSD with the help of a technician.
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The Optical Disk Drive (ODD) which is the DVD drive can be changed to an SSD with a caddy, but unless you are using it as storage I would never do that. You want an SSD with the OS and programs on it put where the HDD (Hard Disk Drive) is currently. Because the current HD is on a SATA III port while the DVD drive I am seeing as being only on a SATA I port. Much slower to put the SSD in the ODD slot.
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If you clone the drive then you are moving everything from the host drive. If you have the OS DVD then you could do a clean install and have just the OS on the ssd
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You can swap it out for a SSD, but just make sure you have a copy of all the drivers and some back-up discs of the OS.
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Ok thanks for the mesg. I don't think I will change the partition. It seems partitioning the drive leads into some errors, esp after storing some files.
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I used a backup program (Acronis True image) to copy the OS onto the SSD. It then guided me how to change to boot from the new SSD. No reinstall of Win 8 needed, just copy to SSD and set that drive as boot drive. Pretty easy. It never asked for windows key in the process. For an easier process still, buy the migration kit for your specific SSD which will come with the hardware you may need as well. I was in your shoes and like you thought it was going to be harder than it was. Good luck and enjoy the 5-second boot up afterward. JF
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Hi James. the answer is definitely yes. I have done it with Acronis many times both with this version and previous ones. How you do it depends on what you are setting out to do e.g replacing a drive in an existing desktop PC, replacing a drive in a laptop or transferring a drive image to a different desktop or laptop. Recently I swapped the 1tb hard drive in my laptop for a 1tb hybrid drive (i.e. one with a small solid state drive that speeds up boot up by storing frequently used programs in the SSD pat of the drive) Acronis worked a treat to do this. In this case I used a usb docking station to plug the new drive in and used the disk migrate tool in Acronis - i.e. running Acronis from within Windows. This then made an exact copy on to the new drive. Once done I swapped them round and presto thanks to Acronis (and Seagate hybrid drive) I now have a laptop that boots up really fast. The ld drive I put into an external enclose and is now used a an external back up drive for the laptop using Acronis for the drive backups! Some procedures need you to create the disk image and save to an external hard drive then create an Acronis boot disk on CD or memory stick and boot from that and run the restore from the external drive as source and new drive as target. It is very flexible in how you can restore or copy one drive to another. In short I can heartily recommence this- I have been using it for several years now and its worth every penny esp when a drive has gone wrong or a software install has messed things up. If you need advice on a particular scenario Id be glad to help. Hope this helps.
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The drive has software that 'clones' your existing drive. all files, including the operating system, are copied. Once that is done, you can delete any files you don't want on the SSD & still find them in their original place on the hard drive.
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This comes with everything you need minus the disc. Once you setup it will ask you to create a clean backup of OS. But you can always reinstall without the backup directly from the hard-drive, you just risk loosing the OS if the HDD dies. However, if your looking to spend money on a laptop you can find much better for the price.
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This is basically what I did, but I just put my SSD directly into my MBP, did a clean install of Mavericks, and moved over my desired files. It had been a while since I did a clean install, so I preferred to do it this way versus a clone. Now the HDD can be an external drive.
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I haven't done that with this laptop, but have swapped a hard drive with an SSD on another HP laptop and it worked great. You just need to get an SSD hard drive that fits in a laptop, most of the more common SSD's do. You also will need to backup and restore the operating system from the existing disk to the new ssd drive.
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When you clone from a large SATA hard drive to a smaller SSD drive it will most likely not work. Your best bet is to install windows from scratch, treating it as a new install. That way all partitions will be set up correctly.
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I bought a Samsung ssd 256GB and cloned the drive with the included software. Works great. Just estimating the boot time before and after by counting in my head, before it took say 40 seconds from when I saw the first bios splash screen, and after putting in the ssd it takes 6 seconds to boot.
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The cloning software makes an identical copy of your old hard drive. If Windows 7, or Office, or anything else worked before you installed the SSD, it will operate perfectly afterwards. The "computer" does not see anything different. Just clone your hard drive which has Windows installed. And when it is finished, install the SSD. Then, button up your computer and it will boot up without your needing to do anything.Good luckJohn
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When I used the software that came with the SSD, it only copied the data. You can set up a second partition with a partition program after your done.
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I never had to use a disk. You just plug it in an it will give you an option to transfer data to the new HDD under the memory section of your console settings.