Portable Dual Drive Setup with SSD

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• Best Dual Drive Setup Configuration

  Hi guys,.

  I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012 and I just installed a (840 Evo Samsung 250 GB) SSD in the connector sata main and moved the previous 500 GB HDD to the optical Bay.

  How can I move files and say Dropbox and other records of large files only for work on the HARD drive and keep only the Mac OS x and some software on the SSD? It is with a terminal command should?

  Given that the SSD is an exact clone of the HARD drive, sometimes it's even a little confussing where I am currently working on.  Should I make a folder named HARD drive with direct access to the office for?

  Any help or ideas will be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  http://www.Macworld.com/article/2014011/storage-drives/how-to-make-your-own-Fusi sur-drive.html

• HP probook 4540 s: dual boot 4540 with SSD and HDD

  Hello world

  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

  the two hard drives have win 7 professional 64 bit

  When I turn on the laptop, the OS on the SSD starts and I see the HARD drive as a storage drive

  Thus, from a material point of view, everything works fine

  now, I would like to use two hard drives with the ability to use win 7 times of SSD and HDD

  to boot from the HARD drive, I tried to change the boot order put the DVDrom before the hard drive, but it did not work

  any suggestion\software tool which may help?

  Thank you very much

  Giuseppe

  @Giuseppe1:

  To do this, you must choose a single installation as the default and change the BCD in this one to include starting in the installation of other.

  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:

  (1) run EasyBCD

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

  (3) in the section on the right operating system, click the Windows tab, and then select the drive that contains the OTHER Windows startup

  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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• Portable hard drives wireless with automatic Time Machine?

  Automatic time machine

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• HP Pavilion dv7-7070eo Enterta: WD Black Dual Drive SSD/HDD

  Hej HP,

  JEG har netop kobt WD Black Dual Drive SSD/HDD invaaf som en for mit C: VAC, da den var begynder at both megget langsomt.

  Problem of mit er dog PC kan ikke finde HDD delen.

  SSD delen kore WIN Med fint

  JEG har kontaktet WD siger min skal undrstotte SATA BIOS og for debt fa til at fungerer.

  Den skulle til SATA mode "AHCI" men kan ikke finde muligheden Langst I have BIOS.

  Kan I hjaelpe?

  Larsen75 wrote:

  I've tried everything as directed by the video on installing the new SSD/HDD.

  The only thing I can't do is change the BIOS, because it's very limited opt for Setup on the disks.

  I contacted WD without a bit of luck.

  Proberly need to talk to the seller of this problem, but he said that it is compatible with all PCs, not excluded,

  Yes. I read that and frowned. I'll be back without a doubt it.  People have experienced a similar problem with the desktop and hybrid hard drives.

• Can I update my portable hard drive with any hard drive

  Can update my laptop to any disk hard Windows hard disk I have is a hard drive 750 GB installed in the GPT Fomat and I need just a second disk hard so thatI can run other programs as Windows 7 32 bit belowe Windows 8 Home witch let you not do with these programs. The 750 GB hard drive that is installed is in a type of Protection GPT format witch cannot be formatted or partitioned to the other then a GPT format and I need formatted drive LBA.

  Make sure you have the drivers before you downgrade to save yourself at little grief.

  The answer to your question is Yes.

  Your compatible laptop pretty much any external hard drive SATA (and SSD) which has the dimensions and specifications, as shown in the image below. (SATA150\SATA300\SATA600) Source reference portable HP Paviliion G7 one maintenance & Service guide.

  

• Portege R830 - model with SSD or HARD drive?

  Hello!

  I am considering buying a Portege R830. I've yet to decide between the Portégé R830-10R (model with HARD drive) and the Portégé R830 - 10 p (model with a 256 GB SSD). To do this, I would like to know:

  -What is the SSD model assembled in the Portégé R830?
  -It uses a standard SATA connection or an owner like the previous Portégé R700 SSD?
  -Have someone replaced the original HDD to the Portégé R830 by a whole new SATA 3 SSD? Wich one? It works fine?

  Thanks in advance for your help.

  Hi MadVet,

  The SSD of Portege R830 - 10 p is a model of Toshiba 2.5 so it does not work in Portege R830. In addition due to the 2.5 form factor it uses SATA standard interface as normal hard drives.

  In my opinion, you should take the model with SSD. 256 GB is enough for the operating system and applications as well as for some important data. If you need more disk external HARD disk space use. SSDS are very fast and you will see the performance of the SSD HARD drive instead ;)

• HPE-495 desktop - HARD drive is u/s, please help to rebuild with SSDS

  Hi all

  [[2 TB Hitachi SATA 3.0 GB/s] HARD drive GL8E]. The current failed HARD drive is connected to the sata1 and there is a spare on the motherboard sata2. Spare power supplies available [CH 4 & ch 5]. Office was running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

  I would like to install a 840 EVO Samsung 250 GB SSD SATA 3 with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Service Pack 1 and a second [still undecided 2 TB Western Digital SATA 3] as data drive.

  These discs are backaward compatible with the existing architecture of SATA - y at - it all isuues with this proposal, would I need to make changes to the BIOS, other than this initial boot off dvd player to install the new windows on the ssd drive?

  Thank you very much.

  If you replace the current HARD drive with SSD in SATA1, new in SATA2 HARD drive and let the CD/DVD in SATA3 on your HP Pavilion Elite HPE-495uk desktop, your computer should boot the Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit DVD into the CD/DVD drive. This assumes that the disks are new with absolutely no data on them. You may need to, press the "ESC" key or the "F # ' suitable for your computer, select the CD/DVD drive as a boot device.

  If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

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• I have two portable hard drives with music and video files and cannot get them to play

  I have two portable hard drives with music and movies files can get them to play my laptop girlfriend see them, but does not play

  If you copy the files on the portable hard drive will they play?

• I want to copy all my jpg files to another directory (a portable hard drive) with some of the same names of JPGs, but not necessarily all. What will happen? The word 'COPY', will be some of the deleted files be added or nothing at all.

  I have a LOT of pictures in my computer (over a thousand) and I want to put them on a portable hard drive, I bought (1 terabyte) but I won't write any of the names of existing files with different images. IS THIS POSSIBLE? Do I need software or special hardware? I tried the copy/paste standard as well as move files to the new directory, but it seems that I can lose files. I'm not sure if the files that are missing (or lack, in my opinion) are not copied. When I finished emptying the directory, it shows that it is empty but the new directory does not seem to have any additional files that should be there based on the counting of the files before and after.

  Thanks for any help you can provide, Bill

  1: right-click and then drag the pix on the external drive. Release the right mouse button and choose copy here. They are there?  Now remove it from the computer.

  2: you can see pix of the same name overwrite each other, or be done with (1), (2), etc.. But even in this case, they will be interspersed with the former. If keep you them in separate folders with different names, that should not happen. Personally, I rename all the pix before storing them. You can select the set instead of the code of the camera and a group, rename the first holiday 2009 yo and the rest will be renamed holiday 2009 and each havf will one (1), (2), (3), after them.

  It is also a nice freeware tool which, among other things, can rename a group of photos easily.

  FastStone Image Viewer
  http://www.FastStone.org/

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• Convert.exe works with the portable USB drives?

  Back when helping people spend 98 or ME to XP, there is a utility called convert.exe which could convert not destructive HDD FAT32 to NTFS.

  This utility will work with a hard disk of laptop USB instead of an IDE drive? Some utilities are skittish about the material, and he did for years I've used this utility. I need to convert a portable hard drive 320 GB in NTFS for a virtual machine to run with VMware Player for a night school class, and I would rather not delete it if I have to.

  SlickRCBDsalvation,

  Yes, it is possible to convert the file system fat32 of NTFS for a USB hard drive.

  Reference:

  Convert a hard disk or partition to NTFS format
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/convert-a-hard-disk-or-partition-to-NTFS-format

  Warning: formatting a volume will destroy all data on the partition. Be sure to back up any data you want to save before you begin.

  Thank you, and in what concerns:
  I. Suuresh Kumar - Microsoft technical support.

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• Measures of software right for remove mSata 32 GB drive cache to replace the HDD with SSD.

  Hi, does anyone have instructions, or so point me to an article, to remove the disc from cache mSata original 32 GB configured to speed up drive HARD etc so the office strictly from the HARD drive boot can drive alone. I know that this implies the RST and possibly the BIOS settings. I'm looking for the exact steps that I had bad experiences removal (and adding) 32 GB mSata led cache in the past. System does not boot... Note I didn't need no guidance on physically remove the disk and for the curious once I have a clean boot of the only HARD disk I will clone the SSD (2.5 which I already have) so the 32 GB mSata is redundant and I would remove it completely. I am also interested by your experiences and/or complications in doing this. Thank you.

  These instructions may be of any Dell desktop, the office in question is a Dell XPS 8700.

  Hi all

  Here are the exact steps I used to replace a HARD drive accelerated with an SSD without any problem. It will probably work on most laptops and Dell desktop computers. In my case a Dell XPS 8700 running Windows Pro 64-bit 10.

  1 rapid Storage Technology, performance-> Disable Acceleration tab-> makes available.

  2. use DISKPART to CLEAN the drive 32 GB mSata.

  3. run msconfig.exe to set the mode to boot without failure, a minimum.

  4 stop.

  5. press F2 at startup to enter BIOS. Change to AHCI RAID. (probably not necessary, but I wanted that you never know what SSD tools may need).

  6 mine starts in Mode safe very well and it has changed Windows 10 AHCI RAID drivers automatically.

  7 run msconfig.exe to change normal startup.

  8 re-boot (started fine normal start-up).

  9. I then stop and removed the 32 GB mSata reader (you probably do this stage 4)

  10 success, XPS 8700 AHCI HHD boots without any problem.

  11. I then used Acronis True Image HD provided for free with the 1050 GB Crucial SSD to clone the 2 TB drive (650 GB used). Important do not use Acronis in Windows mode but create and boot from a bootable USB key. Community.crucial.com/.../172487

  12 put the SSD in a basket of 3.5 and swapped the HHD with the SSD. Now, it starts in a few seconds and not minutes after a Windows 10 update!

  It worked for me, but obviously not guaranteed to work for you...

• Slow startup of Windows 7 on a new PC with SSD system drive, help me... !

  Search for patches:

  • http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2510636
  • http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2617858

  Install if it is not present.

  See also: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/10130.root-causes-for-slow-boots-and-logons-sbsl.aspx

  I installed the same SSD on my PC, and it loads so fast with windows 7 colorful circles which converge at the Center as Windows loads can converge even before my windows opens.  I have not installed the SSD from zero tho.  I used the Wizard software to copy my drive on the SSD.  Everything worked fine, so I don't know what to think.  All I can say is that if you get that SSD is working properly, you will drool at the speed if you're used to HARD disks. :)

• How to use Ready Boost, and what are the requirements for the use of portable hard drives and flash drives for use with Ready Boost?

  I have Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate Edition and try to get Ready Boost to work on my PC using portable hard drives or flash drives. I have 2 portable hard drives (iomega 120gig, Seagate 250gig) and a 8gig sandisk cruzer flash drive. All this deterioration when you try to use the ready boost said that these discs only are not compatible or not supported. So what do I need?

  Not all readers will work with ReadyBoost. There are some readers who actually will specify that they are capable of ReadyBoost.

  By WikiPedia:

  • The device should have an access time of 1ms or less.
  • The device must be capable of 2.5 MB/s for 4 KB random read speeds indicates the spread uniformly across the entire device and 1.75 MB/s write for 512 speed random writes spread uniformly across the device.

  You must also put the device and let it plugged in for ReadyBoost. ReadyBoost is therefore best suited for a small thumbdrive (up to 4 GB) that greater thumbdrive or external HD that you would probably be disconnect from time to time.

  Open solutions Explorer window, find your Cruzer - right-click on it and click Properties. If there is a ReadyBoost tab, you can set up - set it to dedicate this device to ReadyBoost. It will be implemented and save a file on the USB key. Click Apply and're you good to go.

  A caveat which I can testify first-hand. Apparently while booting, Win 7 has trouble with some USB key - it will search the thumbdrive, the operating system, the process of starting to stall and you say: ' Missing Operating System ' - Fortunately the solution is very easy. Shut down the computer, remove the USB key, restart the computer and it will start normally. I had this happen with a 8 GB Cruzer. This seems to be a random thing, because I had the Cruzer plugged in and booted several times without encountering the error of missing operating system message. No idea why or why it is injury. Currently, I use a Kodak USB 2 gig key that seems to work very well.

• (Redirected) Cannot boot from the HARD drive on dell n5010 with SSD and HARD drive installed

  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).

  My Windows 10 operating system has been installed on the SSD using Samsung Data Migration software, so the previous C drive was pointless. So I formatted and installed an operating system Ubuntu 14.04 on it, hoping the grub OSs double beginning located on the HARD disk.

  However, I find no the Dell bios boot option to boot from the HARD drive installed in my optical drive Bay. All the choices are 'Hard Drive', 'Network' and 'Diagnostic '.

  But I was definitely sure that my bios program has detected the SSD and HDD with information on the main menu of the bios.

  And the LED on the optical drive Bay was immediately once I pressed the Start button on my laptop.

  As a general rule, all things were right except for options of the bios boot.

  Is there a way I can boot from HDD (with installed Ubuntu) while remaining has my SSD on the main drive Bay? I don't want to swap their positions, because the SSD is super fast on the main drive Bay.

  I have alse won't migrate 10 Windows to the HARD drive and reinstall Ubuntu on the SSD, because I'd like my windows be loaded quickly.

  Someone at - it the same problem with me?

  Any suggestion is appreciated!

  As you have a laptop, better make this laptop in the computer Forum post here:

  http://en.community.Dell.com/support-forums/laptop/default.aspx

  Bev.