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• SSD in new ALX R4 installation and what makes the startup disk

  Have just ordered a new R4 ALX. Would have preferred to order a combo HDD SSD, but Dell didn't, this combo and the largest SSD they available was 512 GB.

  Thus, when the new PC arrives, I intend to install a 840 Samsung 1 TB mSATA SSD EVO (using an Icy Box 2.5 "to 3.5" HDD/SSD converter).

  YouTube has a video showing how:

  "Alienware Aurora ALX R4 - installation of an SSD.

  So, how can I make the SSD the startup disk and the backup HARD drive?

  Re-install the operating system? Can I clone on the SSD HARD drive, then change the boot order? Something else?

  For any help or suggestion will be appreciated.

  Problem solved - see link to post

  http://en.community.Dell.com/Owners-Club/Alienware/f/3746/t/19578114.aspx

• Difficulty of startup disk after copying the OS to new SSD

  This morning and used EaseUS partition wizard to copy the recovery partition, OS partition (C :) and unnamed in the SSD partition, I received a shiny new SSD. I should have used one of the many software migration available but I didn't, so I've been running a few problems. I have everything but the d: more expanded and copied in the new SSD drive C (on the SSD) to occupy all of the space allocated.

  From there, I set my BIOS to boot from the disc SSD and Windows loaded normally, so I assumed that the new drive was working how I wanted and erased everything except the D drive on the old drive. After the reboot, I have met with a cursor flashing instead of the windows logo 7.

  After some research, I think my problem might by one of the following:

  The operating system on the new drive partition was not set up active, is not loading at startup.

  The system partition does not recognize the new, larger OS partition and must be reset to match the new partitions.

  The OS copied on the new SSD is simply not bootable.

  I used my laptop (Ubuntu) to check the SSD drive, and all the OS files are there, exactly how I expected to be after you copy the files using EaseUS.

  I have the Windows 7 installation disc, as well as the old HDD and the new SSD. I can do to fix the OS on the SSD so that I don't have to do a new clean install, or who is my best option?

  Thank you, Ty

  Hi TySimmel,

  Thanks for posting the query on Microsoft Community.

  I appreciate your efforts and your time.

  I suggest you try the steps in the link below to check and the system recovery options, if it helps.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/what-are-system-recovery-options#what-are-system-recovery-options=Windows-7

  Please get back to us with the information required to help you further.

• How to change the Satellite L670D-103 using new SSD 80 GB HARD drive?

  Hello

  I have a Satellite L670D-103 with a 320 GB HARD drive running at 5400 RPM which is too slow for me.

  So I plan to change this factory by a new SSD HDD to increase the performance of the overall system :)

  But as the SSD are expensive, I have only a 80 GB SSD.

  I built the recovery on a USB media and I want to use it to restore my system to the new SSD (I previously did the space needed to ensure that all data can be stored on my new SSD 80 GB space; p)

  Retrieving SSD partitioning new procedure is done without error, but when copying image to restore data to freshly created the partition, one not enough space error stop the process!

  It seems that the recovery procedure is possible on a hard drive that is equal or superior to the original size of the disk (320 gb).

  So, how can I restore mysystem on my new SSD?

  Thank you
  Stéphane.

  > It seems that the recovery procedure is possible on a hard drive that is equal or superior to the original size of the disk (320 gb)

  To my knowledge, you have different recovery options:

  (* 1) * recovery of factory default software

  (a) recovery to out of box state
  (b) recovery without changing the HARD drive partitions
  (c) recovery of a custom size partition

  (* 2) * "erase the HARD drive.

  I think that if you choose factory default software recovery of-> recovery to out of box state then the recovery would create exactly the same size of partition on the new SSD which were available on the 320 GB HARD drive.
  I think this might be the reason why you have received this message.

  Perhaps you need to choose the 3rd option Recovery on a custom size partition

  What do you think?

• Clone of SSD will not appear at startup, but present in the startup disk

  OS X 10.11.3 El Capitan

  iMac (27-inch, late 2012)

  2.9 15

  32 GB of Ram

  My machine came with a standard 1 TB hard drive. I recently bought a PNY 960 GB SSD CS1000. and a USB to SATA adapter from Ebay.

  First of all, I cloned with the CCC. Then tried to use disk utility to see if that was the problem. Both have the same results.

  The cloning process was successful in both cases. It displays not only at boot time. I start my imac. Press the Option key and the new drive does not appear as a boot option. To make sure that its not only meet its time but never watch? After the starting of the machine. I go into the Preferences system-startup disk and performances as an option. I unlock a tell the machine to reboot using this disc. And it will restart, but still does not use the SSD.

  I did score as GUI and logged and followed all the relevant instructions. It seems fitting that at startup it find until after the start.

  Any ideas on what is happening. I want to be sure that it will boot from USB until I open my machine and install it as a replacement. Thank you

  Strange indeed. Looks like you've done everything right, but something does not play well. My first suspect is the USB-SATA Adapter, I do not trust any of the cheap knockoff sold on eBay. What happens if you clear and just install a new copy of El Capitan on the SSD instead of a clone? It will then start?

• using recovery on new SSD disks

  Hello!

  I just bought a new SSD, Corsair 120 GB and I want to use it as a system for my HP DV7-7259nr want to drive. How can I use the Windows 8 recovery disks to do? Or... simply... How do I make this change?

  Any advice is welcome!

  Thank you

  Hello Costin.
  
  What disc it has not on?
  
  I think this may have failed because of an Intel driver.  For some reason, one of the pilots ("" Description: USB - IF USB Host Controller xHCI ' ") was an integrated 01/01/2013 expiration date.  This caused a lot of customers unable to perform the recovery.  The work around this problem is to go into your BIOS and change the year of 2012 and save the changes.  This should allow you to install Windows, and once installation is complete, you can change the clock to the correct time.
  
  Let me know if it helps.  Have a most excellent day!

• the upgrade of the disk sata hard to new ssd sata 3 disc 1

  I have Hp m9510 running windows 7 64 bit home edition.  The motherboard is ASUS IPIBL-LB (Benicia), my drive sata hard existing 1 running in raid mode.  I want to add a new SATA of SDS 3 as a new startup disc and leave the player sata 1 existing as a backup.  Insofar as the motherboard is built for sata 1, if I install a sata pci card 3 I will then be able to obtain the transfer of higher data rates of the new ssd without causing other problems?

  If your current configuration has a single disc, then your default would be AHCI.

  RAID stands for redundant array or inexpensive disks and requires two or more physical hard disks for the implementation.

  In this case the preferred configuration would also be AHCI. It's a SATA mode. (Advanced host configuration interface) His replacement is IDE (emulation) mode

• Repair your startup disk Bootcamp disappearing after you create the new partition

  . After some research, I found that it was the way forward to create a separate partition, and so I did another partition.

  I didn't know it would affect my Windows partition that I thought it was completely different.

  So now, when I start it up, there is no option to start with Windows. But when I boot the Mac and select Startup disk, it displays Boot Camp is still there, and all my files etc. are still there.

  I tried to create one separate partition (other than Bootcamp). After that its done and I started my computer, I found that the option to boot Windows (Bootcamp startup disk) has disappeared. But I still see boot camp Mac files. Any solution for this? Thank you.

  (I tried to find this solution on the discussion Forum, and I found: repair Boot Camp after having created the new partition, however, I'm not able to follow these instructions. any help would be appreciated)

  For reference:

  Aerospews-MBP: ~ the marcuslo list $ diskutil

  / dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 500,3 disk0

  1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 350,7 GB disk0s2

  3: disk0s3 Apple_Boot Recovery 650.0 MB HD

  4: Apple_HFS 47.6 Untitled GB disk0s4

  5: Microsoft database BOOTCAMP 101,0 GB disk0s5

  Aerospews-MBP: ~ list of cs marcuslo$ diskutil

  No logical volume group CoreStorage found

  Aerospews-MBP: ~ marcuslo$ sudo TPG - vv - r show/dev/disk0

  See the TPG: / dev/disk0: mediasize = 500277790720; SectorSize = 512; blocks = 977105060

  See the TPG: / dev/disk0: PMBR to sector 0

  See the TPG: / dev/disk0: Pri GPT to sector 1

  See the TPG: / dev/disk0: GPT Sec at sector 977105059

  start index size summary

  0 1 PMBR

  1 1 Pri GPT header

  2 32 table GPT Pri

  34 6

  40 409600 1 part TPG - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

  409640 684969040 2 part TPG - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  685378680 1269536 3 part TPG - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  686648216 92929128 4 part TPG - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  779577344 262144

  779839488 197265408 5 part TPG - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

  977104896 131

  977105027 32 table dry GPT

  977105059 1 dry GPT header

• How to clone my disk to a new SSD

  Hi, communities,

  My hardware: Apple Mac Book Pro (mid-2009), El Capitan running and an airport Time Capsule 3 TB (with Active Time Machine).

  I want to replace my HARD drive. It's easy to find out how to replace it in your Mac Book Pro, but it is much more difficult to find the best way to clone my new SSD HARD drive.

  So my question is: what is the best way and the easiest to clone my disk for my new SSD.

  Hope you can help out me. Most of the information I found was really old.

  Thank you and best regards

  Jacco

  Install the SSD in a closed enclosure and connect it to your MBP via USB.

  Open disk utility > delete and format the SSD to Mac OS extended (journaled).

  You need a third party application cloning.  I recommend Carbon Copy Cloner:

  
  

  https://Bombich.com/

  
  

  Run the application of cloning.  It will ask you if you want to copy the recovery partition.  Do.

  
  

  When you have finished the transfer of data/OSX, start the MBP with the OPTION key down.  Select the SSD drive and if it starts the MBP, make the transition with the HARD drive internal.  (You can install the HARD drive in case you used for cloning)

  Ciao.

• Change startup disk

  My current boot drive is full, and this causes problems.

  What is the best way to install a new system on a different startup disk and I have to reinstall all my applications everywhere.

  Any help and advice appreciated.

  See this help topic...

  How to install OS X on an external drive connected to your Mac - Apple Support

  If you want to replace internally, you can use SuperDuper or double clone to create a clone. Then format the new disk and either clone back or set up fees and use the installation wizard to migrate.

  http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/18/clean-install-OS-x-Yosemite/

  https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=0K82njigCTA

• Reinstall Windows 7 on new SSD after failure of hard disk, damaged, incomplete product key

  I have a HP Pavilion.  The HARD drive recently failed completely, no possibility to recover data at the moment.  I ordered a set of HP recovery disks, but they seek the recovery on the HARD drive partition; There is no such partition that I replaced the HARD original with a new SSD drive.  To make things worse, the place that HP has chosen to put the Microsoft product key sticker resulted in the product being partially faded key.

  So, to summarize: HP not Pavilion with a corrupt OEM HDD and so far no data recovery possible. a new SSD with no partitions on this subject; a set of recovery disks from HP that don't just work; a sticker with the product key with the first two digits of the product key (as well as some of the barcode, etc.) rubbed off because they have chosen to place the sticker on the bottom of a working computer instead of, say, under the battery, it can be protected.

  If someone in the community has a suggestion as to how to install Win 7 (must be 7 on this system, cannot be an iteration of 8 or 10) from scratch, without having to buy it and with a corrupt OEM disc and a partial product key, I'd love to hear it.  Maybe it's time to install Debian on it?

  Ahh, this is the crux of the problem... the bootmgr is missing.

  To restore the windows off the factory restore DVD, you must configure the BIOS to use the DVD drive as the primary boot device. The machine will then start on the first DVD, and you will not get the above message.

• Clean install of windows 8 pro x 64 on a new ssd upgrade, I have windows xp x 32 on a disk hard available, which I no longer use, can I do this?

  I want to clean install windows 8 pro x 64 on a new ssd upgrade.

  I have windows xp x 32 on an existing hard drive which I no longer use, I can do this, that I can start the upgrade process, and then point the installation on the new SSD?
  I really don't want to install XP on the new SSD and am not bothered about keeping programs or settings

  How to do a clean install:

  Step 1: Use the upgrade wizard to describe the PC and pay the $40 (US)

  Step 2: When the 'Install Windows 8' message appears, select 'Install by creating media' to create a bootable USB key or .iso (a disk image) file.

  Step 3: Wait for the Wizard download Windows 8 Pro installation package and create the bootable media or .iso file. The flash player must be having 3 GB or more of free space available.

  Step 4: Burn the .iso file, if that's the path you have chosen, to a blank DVD.

  Step 5: Use this key USB or DVD to boot the PC.

  Step 6: When you get to the screen in the Setup program that asks, "which type of installation you want?" choose "custom".

  Step 7: Select a drive for the operating system partition in the next screen. At this point, you can create a new partition if there is enough space available or reformat the hard disk.

  Step 8: Proceed with the installation of Windows 8 Pro.

  You should probably do a phone activation after installation is complete.

  1. press the Windows key + X , and then click run, and then type: slui.exe 4

  2. then press the ENTER"" key.

  3. Select your "country" in the list.

  4. choose the option "activate phone".

  5. stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.

  6. explain your problem clearly to the support person.

• Installing Photoshop on a new startup disk.

  I recently bought a new SSD drive I want to use my new boot drive and install Photoshop CS6.

  Can I just disable Photoshop and uninstall my old disk and reinstall on my new SSD or is there something else I need to do?

  Disable (help > deactivate), then uninstall it.  Then reinstall on your new drive c.

• How to change back to SSD HARD drive?

  My mcbook pro comes with the original 500 GB of HARD drive. When he ran with a problem, I went to an apple repair shop. Problem was in the charts, and he suggested the HARD drive to be replaced by a 120 GB SDD. So it has been replaced, but the guy on the left HARD drive as a storage device. Moment where DDI is left with small space and when I update to OS X El Capitan of OS Sierra, it had to be installed in the HARD disk drive. Could someone please give instructions to install the new OS to the SDS to lose all my data and the current configuration and it is also possible to install windows XP on the HARD drive and 10.  Either by the way, I got Windows 10 and XP shared with the SDS via parallels. Thank you

  I think this can be useful for you:

  How to use an SSD with your HARD drive If you want to use an SSD as boot with your existing HARD disk drive, as the disk 'data', here is what you can do. After installing the SSD, you need to partition and format the SSD using disc utility disc. Then install OS X on the SSD. Once installed OSX boot from SSD. Startup disk preferences to set up the SSD as the boot volume. Open the preferences users and groups. Click the lock and authenticate you. Or CTRL - RIGHT click on your username account list in the sidebar and select Advanced Options in the context menu. You will see a field called "Home dir: ' on the far right, you will see an Edit button. Click on it. In the file dialog box, navigate to the location in house now located on the HARD disk (disk HARD/users/user_name /.) Select the folder, click the Open button. Restart the computer, as shown. When the computer starts, it will now use the home located on the HARD drive folder. Another more technical method involving the Terminal and the alias is discussed in depth here: using OS X with a SSD and HDD - Matt Gemmell configuration. It's my preferred approach because I can choose which records of the House, I want to on the HARD drive and I don't want to. For example, I like to keep Documents and library files on the SSD because I frequently access their content. Make sure that you keep the bootable system entirely on your HARD drive where you need it.

• Mac Pro early 2008 OS 10.6.8 at 10.11 on a new SSD upgrade

  Hi all!

  I want to spend my Mac Pro hard drive to an SSD with a new installation of El Capitan, but I also want to continue to use Adobe CS3 (I can't afford a new version... > _ <).  I read that some people have a lot of problems after upgrading their operating system, even when you use the legacy of Java 6 to CS3.

  Someone at - it good tutorials step by step to install a new OS on a SSD?  I have the adapter for my Mac to use the SSD drive also.  I'm not * that * tech savvy, so I don't want to spoil anything!  :\

  Would it not be possible to keep my current hard drive with Snow Leopard and run Parallels or Fusion for Adobe CS3 on my SSD?  I've never used Parallels or Fusion (preferences?), so where the Snow Leopard operating system to be need?  On a partition on the SSD or can it be on its own hard drive (the one I'm currently using)?

  Also do not know when I improve my OS, how do I tell my Mac to start El Capitan and not Snow Leopard so I keep the older operating system on its own hard drive?  It is system-> startup disk preferences?  Is that how I can go back, if I need to?

  Here are my specs:

  Mac Pro early 2008 (MacPro 3,1)

  Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.8 Ghz

  16 GB RAM 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM

  HARD drive 500GBx2 (one is currently my Time Machine, I'll use it as a backup of my photos)

  500GB SSD (no not in my Mac still installed)

  4 TB HARD drive (will have Time Machine on half)

  El Capitan would be really slow on my Mac Pro or should I go with the Mavericks or Yosemite?  I'm just trying to extend the life of my Mac as long as possible!

  I'm really sorry for all the questions!  Thank you very much for any help!  ^____^

  ~ Christina ~.

  -Unless you have already "purchased" Mavericks or Yosemite is is not available for download.

  -I just download the installer of El Capitan from the Mac App Store and run it and order that EL Capitan to be installed on the new SSD. You can then by pressing the Option key at startup to choose which version of the OS you want to boot from. You can set either as the default startup in system preferences > startup disk.

  -During installation, you use the configuration wizard to migrate SN drive stuff. YO can also do it later using Migration Assistant but who has created a new used with the migrated data.

  -With 16 GB of RAM and an SSD El Capitan will be fine