Lenovo G500 with SSD and HDD in ODD Bay

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  Recently, I replaced my HDD with a SSD on my HP probook 4540 s

  Using a HARD drive enclosure, I installed the SSD on the slot of the hard drive and the HARD drive on the DVD drive SATA connector

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  Installing Win7 on the internal HARD disk is the best choice because he will always be there.

  That change, download and install EasyBCD from Neosmart Technologies.  It is a tool on the menu to change the BCD.  It is safe to download and use, as I use it all the time.

  Once installed, follow these steps:

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  2) click on the button Add a new entrance on the left

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  4) click the button Add an entry

  Now when you reboot your machine, you should see a menu with two entries - one for each version of the windows OS.

  Good luck

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  American,

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  Mint is not my first choice with the exception of a bureau of temporary replacement, since the authors are strongly focused on the Office UI, less than the largest army of coders behind Unbuntu and Fedora.

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• The distribution of applications and data between the disk SSD and HDD

  I recently installed an SSD in my Macbook Pro (late 2011) instead of the DVD player. I want to install OS X on it, by replacing the current OS X on the original hard disk, I will continue to use for storing files. How should I allocate its use in car? OS X and applications on the data files on the hard disk of 500 GB and SSD?

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  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.

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  I have my old dell n5010 (15R Inspiron) with SSD (Samsung EVO 840 120 G) installed on the main drive Bay and the HDD (Samsung HJJ 500 G) on the optical drive Bay.

  It is a typical way to add an SSD on such an old laptop (bought from dell.com.cn in 2011).

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  This ODD of SSD/HDD replacement is not always possible and in many cases, the BIOS will not handle and will not recognize the new HARD disk correctly.

  That I can remember some old laptops Toshiba Tecra and Portege that supported the functionality of Slim Select Bay were able to manage the 2nd HARD drive instead of driving WEIRD, but this was not possible due to the available selection slim Bay.

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  My old HARD drive player has accident and I bought an SSD for my workstation, ADATA SX900 SATA III.  I put SSDS with and drive HARD Seagate Barracuda 1 TB SATA 7200 RPM, and at first glance, everything was ok, after 2 days, my pc has slowly gel and once has this blue screen appears. Now, I only use SSDS on workstation.

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  If your older HARD drive was the boot drive and crashed it somehow, you can trust data from the operating system that is located on this drive. As such, you must reinstall the operating system to ensure that all the data on your new SSD is indeed correct.

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  However, you have not been clear what you mean by "I put SSDS with and HDD ' must clarify what you actually did or what you ment by this statement.

  Some older HP worksataions play well with some Sata III drives. You can read about these issues here and here.

  However, it is not clear whether the problem you have is related to the Sata II / Sata III issues such as discussed in the references above or related to the fact you can have cloned the old HDD to the SSD and then change the type Sata from AHCI ATA or AHCI + RAID in BIOS (which will result in blue screen unless the correct drivers are already installed).

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