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Thats OK. I was wondering how I was going to make that happen and was thinking that I would ahve attempted it earlier if I thought it would work. Oh well guess its back to standard SSD installation.
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Then you wouldn't be able to fit your M4 in there and would be restricted to an actual dedicated mSATA drive.
As Jeff mentioned, it's a different interface as well as the space is way too tiny for a...
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yes i have the capacity for msata
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I was thinking PC when I mentioned it, as you'd mentioned mSATA, and I forgot that we were talking about a laptop with space constraints.
Does your laptop have a dual hard drive bay and/or the...
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So I can boot to the M4 and have my docs on the 500gb drive rec'd with computer? Tell me more please Rocky....
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SATA & mSATA are different interfaces - mSATA is on top, regular SATA on the bottom:
http://ssd1.thessdreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/microSATA-Compared.jpg
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You can use your M4 as an mSATA, if you want.
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I kept:
On screen display
Lenovo System Interface Driver
Lenovo Power Manager (mine seems to work fine)
UltraNav driver (for the touchpad)
Fingerprint software (if you have a fingerprint...
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Thanks all, I guess I will install the SSD. I did recovery media to a flash drive today so may use that. I really wanted to go with a mSATA instead of the SSD but I have had the SSD (Crucial M4) ...
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OP: I Have an x230. I personally used a USB DVD-Rom drive to re-install Windows on to an SSD. It worked and I've had no issues.
I recommend using an SSD for laptops. They're more power efficient...
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What is worth keeping?
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Thinkpads come with a recovery partition that you can use to make a set of recovery DVDs. I'd recommend using this rather than downloading generic version of Windows, and I RARELY recommend that. ...
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Thanks Rocky.
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1) Does your laptop have a DVD?
2) Is there enough room on the SSD for all your business data? In other words, how many gigs do you have on the present hard drive?
3) You would download the exact...
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for the SSD, you pretty much just unscrew a couple screws, pull the old hard drive out, and put in the SSD in it's place
for windows, you would probably want to set up a flash drive prior to...
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I guess when I started to post I was hoping to undo windows transfer but it seems that is not possible. I have the SSD sitting in a drawer for over a year so I guess it is time to use it. I am just...
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yes, I see that now.....
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So what is it you'd like to do?
Did you want to install an SSD in that laptop?
If so, you won't regret it, specially for a work machine.
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that is why I wouldn't use it.. it messes up settings in a bunch of places
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I know exactly where my files are but windows transfers everything, even stuff I asked it not to transfer such as settings for programs that I was not going to transfer. I set it to move my doc...
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