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The first thing to do is rename your target hard drive "Data" or something else, if you prefer.
Then make the following new folders.
Desktop
Downloads
Documents
Music
Pictures
Video
Saved...
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Yup.
There's a real professional way to do it, and it'll work like a charm.
I'm over my head with work right now so if you didn't mind sending me a PM this evening, to remind me to make and post...
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Oh ok, just was wondering, I did the clean install with restore disks from factory/ones I made myself which included all the bloatware and such. So I am good to go then.
Do you know how to run an...
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If you are talking about a clean install from restore discs from the factory, then it should be every bit as good as a clean install, except that there would be some bloatware that you might want to...
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What is the difference in the size of the old hard drive and the SSD?
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What do you think is better complete clean install OS and all? Or using restore disks?
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"ssd tweaks" in Google will provide you with many great guides on how to improve the performance and longevity of your new drive.
I have personally used the overclock.net guide and have also...
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Question guys about installing an SSD, when installing and I bootup to install hard drive and such, do I need to mess with any of the settings on the drive? I am new to SSD, so I know nothing about...
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If you can shrink your boot partition to around the size of the SSD you can just use Windows backup to create a system image and restore that onto the SSD.
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Hey oh ok, I was thinking of just using Acronis, it is the software that came with mypackage, and cloning, and then see how that is. Also, what is aligning? How do you do it?
If anything I can do...
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I can't elaborate much, I only have limited experience cloning a single Windows 8 laptop (Lenovo G580) to a SSD and after shrinking the main partition, I was no longer able to access the UEFI BIOS or...
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Another quick question, do I need to initialize the drive before I pop it into the bay and begin installing? Or if I just pop it in, it will automatically do that for me when I begin installing? At...
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Can you elaborate a bit plz? Like right now it is on a 750gb with about 30gb of used space with OS and all, most of it coming from the recovery partition.
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I should have included that I did shrink my c: drive to about 100GB's for a 128GB SSD before making the recovery cd's.
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You would have to shrink and/or move around the partitions on the HDD to make them fit on the SSD. This could break the recoverability of your original HDD.
You could try using Macrium Reflect...
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Alright, I will give it a try then.
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Like I said, my Dell Recovery Cd's created the recovery partition. I don't know how the Lenovo setup is, but you can't hurt anything trying it. Install the SSD first before you add the second drive.
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Well that is the thing, I do want to clean install with the Recovery Disks, but the thing is bc it is a brand new HD/SSD it might not work with the Disks bc the partitions are not already made. Even...
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The Restore disks may create the recovery partition, It did on my Dell.
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Two words...clean install
I know you "want" to clone but don't.
Use Windows Easy Transfer to save settings and data... find all software install disks/keys... download all Lenovo drivers.
Then...
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