Should I partition my new SSD once I install it?

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• Should I partition the new drive?

  I installed a new hard drive of 320 and then install Windows XP without the disk partitioning. I think it was a mistake since I have a number of questions: i.e., no message of paging to the startup file and the computer is not shut down correctly, all turn off. I need to create a partition?

  In addition, my computer only recognizes the former status of 80 GB from my old drive.

  If you need to upgrade the BIOS then do.  Also, make sure that the rider of the disc is correctly defined (master/slave/Cable Select), if it is the only drive on the IDE controller, you can set it to master.

  The Windows XP Setup program took care of partitioning, there is no need to use other tools of preparation of partitioning or disk when you install Windows XP, Setup will give you a list of available disks and you ask what disk and partition you want to install Windows, it will load if necessary partitioning.  If you select a new disk that has not been initialized or prepared you will be asked and asked if you want to create a partition, Windows cannot be installed on a disk at least a primary partition, the installation program will create the partition before it can go further, you could not install Windows on your new drive if she had no partitions the Setup program creates the partition that invited you to do when you have Windows installed on your new drive.

  Is the new drive the only hard drive in the computer when you installed Windows XP?  The "No paging file" error is usually caused by incorrect drive letter assignments, glitches or mix ups installation can cause problems with possibility of drive letter.  When you install Windows, you must ensure that there is no external device connected to the computer other than the keyboard, mouse and monitor, make sure that there is no USB drives don't, sticks of flash, cameras or printers with readers card connected to the computer, disconnect everything except the keyboard, mouse and monitor.  Having poorly adjusted riders drive can also cause problems, for example have a drive as a slave when it is the only drive on the controller may cause problems or give unexpected results during the installation of Windows.

  John

• Installed a new SSD and re installed Windows, now getting message days later than the product key does not work to activate it.

  All ideas

  Thank you people

  OK; Follow the advice that I gave:

  If you have followed the legal side of relocation:

  Make a phone Activation, do not follow Demand of Auto, but brace yourself for a real person explain as to what has been done for purposes of re-setup

  "How to activate Windows 7 by phone '

  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/18715-activate-Windows-7-phone.html

  See you soon.

• Upgrade Windows 10 + installation clean + new SSD

  Hello

  My situation is that I have windows 7 Home premium OEM installed and running on a hard drive of my laptop.

  My windows 10 upgrade is ready to run. (Probably, it does not matter, but I have already improved

  front and rear devulcanization to windows 7).

  I intend to buy a new SSD and want to end up with a clean windows 10 install on the SSD and use

  my current hard drive as secondary storage.

  I've read other questions on this matter, but sometimes the answers that you have upgraded to windows 10

  on the old hard drive first, and then perform a clean installation on the SSD, and sometimes I read that

  you need to install windows 7 on SSD first and then upgrade to windows 10 from there.

  So which of these two options should I choose?

  Thanks in advance, Gilles

  Hi Gilles,.

  Thank you for visiting Microsoft Community.

  According to the description, you intend to buy a new SSD and want to perform a clean installation of Windows 10 on it.

  Certainly, I understand your concern.

  I want to provide you with the information that you must first buy the new SSD. Then install Windows 7 on it, activate it, and then upgrade to Windows 10.

  And even if you want to perform a new installation of Windows 10, you can do it.

  Please refer to the article below:

  How to: make a clean install of Windows 10

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Insider/wiki/insider_wintp-insider_install/how-to-do-a-clean-install-of-Windows-10/aef0ae63-2117-41EE-a8ea-4a3181625b08

  I hope this information is useful.

  Please let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

  Thank you.

• My Satellite L850-18 t will support the new SSD?

  Hello

  I am seriously thinking to buy the new SSD which is SATA III. Currently, I have Toshiba Satellite L850-18 t, European model. And I think that (although that is quite difficult to get information) that the current HARD disk is SATA I.

  My question is, will the new SSD work correctly, it will take all the benefits (write and read speed) if I install it on the laptop? And if not, what SATA SSD do you recommend?

  I really need to empty it.

  Best regards
  Luka

  Yes, your Toshiba laptop support SSD. I have older machines, and there is no problem with SSDS.
  This is not complicated, you think it is.
  Check prices and buy one that suits.

  I can recommend brands like Toshiba, Samsung or Kingston. More info on SSD Toshiba you can find on http://storage.toshiba.eu/cms/en/index.html

  A friend of mine uses Samsung 840 Series SSD of base and it works perfectly. The new SSD, you can install original recovery image and start using your machine with factory again.

• new SSD should update OSX

  I just installed a new SSD. Everything works as it should but the disc that I loaded OS x of has me on 10.6.8. I can't upgrade to El Capitan or or the latest version because I did not 10.7. Is there anyway that I can get an update?

  Model name: MacBook Pro

  Model identifier: MacBookPro7, 1

  Processor name: Intel Core 2 Duo

  Processor speed: 2.4 GHz

  Number of processors: 1

  Total number of cores: 2

  L2 Cache: 3 MB

  Memory: 16 GB

  Hello phasbrook,

  Start here: update of OS X El Capitan - Apple Support

  Then you can upgrade.

• MacBook Pro 2.6 13 "mid 2014 8 GB. the HD is fried by virus. should I just take w Apple and replace a new SSD and you know how much $ would cost me? Thank you in advance.

  my MacBook Pro 2.6 GHZ I5 (mid-2014) 3 MB shared level 3 cache, 8 GB on-board 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM. the HD is fried by virus. should I just take w Apple and replace a new SSD and you know how much $ would cost me? Thank you in advance.

  Quan

  Contact ask an ANDS Apple Store.

  However, what makes you think that a virus fried your HD?

  Looking at it

  https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro

  Initially, you Mac Pro came with an SSD.

  Just what failure symptoms are you having? Maybe your SSD did not fail.

  If necessary and if yo are up to it you can replace the SSD yourself

  https://eShop.MacSales.com/shop/memory/Apple_MacBook_MacBook_Pro/upgrade/DDR3_16 00MHz_SDRAM

  This is the Office Mac Pro forum. I asked that your post moved to the forum of laptop MacBook Pro or another appropriate forum.

• Satellite L855-149 - migration Windows 8 to new SSD, including recovery partitions

  Hello

  I just bought a new (840 EVO 250 GB) SSD for my L855-149 and I would like to reinstall windows 8 on this new SSD. In addition, I would like to migrate all the recovery partitions that are present on the HARD disk plant.

  What is the best way to do it?
  Is there a tool to Toshiba for that? I don't have the installation for Windows 8 diskettes.

  Please notify.

  Hello

  On Toshiba laptops, you can always find a preinstalled tool called creator Toshiba average recovery.
  This tool creates the recovery (disk or flash USB stick) media
  With the help of this recovery media, you will be able to put the laptop to factory condition, including all partitions that were available the first day of the purchase.

• Ugggh.  I have a 27-inch iMac late 2011 and the hard drive was updated with a new SSD.  The integrated cd/dvd had to be taken out.  I then bought a thought of superdrive, it should work.  It's frozen on my iMac!

  Ugggh.  I have a 27-inch iMac late 2011 and the hard drive was updated with a new SSD.  The integrated cd/dvd had to be taken out.  I then bought a thought of superdrive, it should work.  It's frozen on my iMac!  Gee, who could have possibly guessed that would happen?  I tried all kinds of silly workarounds, I found on the internet, but still it will not register the stack of DVDs and other discs I have.

  If you're like me and upgraded your iMac that came with a cd/dvd drive internal... so he has to come out to give way to the fusion or the SSD drive, do NOT buy the apple superdrive.  It will work with your computer!

  Think I'll get a laptop samsung...

  Ironic, isn't it? Own Apple SuperDrive will not work with Apple computers. Shame you don't check here first that we would have warned you. Return Apple overpriced and buy a nice third-party player for a third of the price. I love the LG units. You can consider a loading plate because they are more reliable, and you can use these pesky disc when you get one.

• G62 - 219CA: possibility to backup/clone recovery Partition just before installing the new SSD?

  I'm considering buying an SSD of 256 for my older G62 - 219 CA.

  I can sort of back up or clone JUST the recovery partition, so when I install the new SSD I can put back them there and have this convenience for later use?

  I can't close my b/c the entire hard drive SSD will be too small in relation to the original drive.

  Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  ToddNS

  It is not really possible to save or to clone the recovery partition. Your best option is to create the support of HP recovery using the Recovery Manager or to order HP media to DVD - Windows 7 64B doublespeak (Office 2010) + Supp 1 Recovery Kit.

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

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• HP Elitebook 8560w: new SSD has NOT copied the partition HP_TOOLS... ?

  I have a complete clone of the drive C on the SSD. I don't have the HP_TOOLS partition and the hidden partition on the SSD recoverty.

  Do I need? How can I get them on the SSD?

  Thanks for any help you can provide.

  Nope. If it were, it would not work without them. Check and see if you can get into diagnostics UEFI tapping F2 you power up. I would check that. No need to run the computer, but you never miss it until you need it if you have a possible hardware problem. There is a program downloaded UEFI, you can install if necessary. There is no download Windows 10 but UEFI 8.1 Windows should work:

  http://h20564.www2.HP.com/hpsc/SWD/public/detail?sp4ts.Oid=5071172&swItemId=ob_129420_1&swEnvOid=4158

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• Install the EFI on new SSD partition when doing 10 costs of Windows Installer

  I have a similar problem to this topic. Windows was originally (and still is) installed on my HARD drive and I just installed my SSD recently. When I did a clean install of Windows 10 on my new SSD it has not installed the EFI partition.

  Is there a way to create a new partition on the SSD EFI (of course I have to do another new facility) or do I have to physically unplug my HARD drive before you begin?

  my personal rule, I always disconnect a disk with a partition bootable OS, just to reduce the troubles and do not mix the boot managers (I prefer to select the BIOS boot device)

• Should I create pagefile on ramdisk with my new SSD?

  Hello

  Got my new SSD which is the only drive in my system now. To avoid the heavy writing on this drive, I bought Superspeed Ramdisk more (IE temporary files etc.). I have Windows Vista Business 32-bit with 4 GB of ram. The Ramdisk software is able to use the ram 512-1024 that Vista cannot use. In addition, this software can serialize the contents of ramdisk so that it IS possible to run the file here.

  I only use this portable desktop so I'm never near max on virtual memory.

  So, should I create my swap file on a virtual disk? And if so, it would be enough with 512 MB pagefile? Vista will allow me to set this parameter or create the pagefile on my boot drive, regardless of my settings?

  EDIT: Just for clarification and the difference of this thread and 1000 others, my concern here is the constant of writing in the pagefile on my SSD. Not the small gain (if any) the pagefile in Ram would produce...

  --

  SSD? Nice.

  I try and run the pagefile from the Ramdisk to be tested, according to your needs, you may have to go to the EHR.  However, you should have the system handle it anyway.  You can change it, but for now, since the system is new with lots of RAM, test how the virtual disk swap file works if this does not work for you.  You can still use the standard configuration with the swap file managed by the system on the disk.

  Unfortunately I am not too familiar with the Ramdisk software and good course:

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• Problems to Windows 7 new SSD

  I bought a HPE-170F with a 1 TB HARD drive and decided to add an Intel X - 25 M SSD 80 GB as drive operating system.  I didn't know that I would run into problems of displacement of the Windows 7 OS to the new drive.  I tried both possibilities.

  First of all, I created with the disconnected original 1 TB drive and HP recovery discs, I tried to recover the OS to the new drive.  The 80 GB drive was already formatted and recognized in the BIOS.  Recovery failed when I received the error message that the new drive is smaller than the original drive.  Of course the 80 GB is large enough to contain the operating system and much more, but the recovery system know it is less than the original drive.

  My another attempt was to create a system image since the 1 TB drive through Windows 7 and using the Windows repair disk C to try to restore that image on new 80 GB drive.  First of all, I reduced the original score from C to about 37 GB for it go below 80 GB disk size.  I managed to create the image system 5 DVD even if I created the ERD at that time here as I did previously.  With the 1 TB drive unplugged, I started with the Windows repair disk that went well until the moment he seems to start restoring image system and failed.  This time the error is "Not in the catalog (0 X 80780003) backup set".

  My next thought is to try a third party software to prepare the original image of the disk system and use this software to clone to the new drive.  I wonder about a number of things.  One, the alignment will be correctly the 80 GB SSD using this method?  And secondly, will install a cloning of lead drive to other operation OS future headaches because he wasn't a clean place.

  Any suggestions or experiences, that I can draw?  Thanks in advance.

  Buy a third-party software like or similar to Paragon Hard Drive Management Suite of Imaging. Burn the disc to boot WinPE supplied with the product.   Download all partitions in combined on your main drive size to not be greater than your new SSD.  If you got your OS up to 37 GB then you should be in good shape.

  Start the WinPE CD image, and an image of the hard drive (all partitions) to an external USB HD, CD/DVD media or hard disk 2 If you have two.  Turn off your PC and swap in the new SSD. Boot the WinPE image boot disk and then restore your image to your new SSD.

  Once you get your SSD to start then go to management-> disk management computer, fully extend the screen and see how you can use to add may to your partition C of unallocated space.

  I'd rather not use freebe products as they do not have the WinPE boot disk.

• New SSD, X 220, the easiest path for Win8

  I have a 2011 x 220 with windows-powered stock 7 320 HDD. I replace the HDD with a Samsung 840 500 GB SDD stock and who arrives in the mail tomorrow. I want to run Windows 8 above to enjoy the lightning quick boot time. I played around with it enough to decide that it is tolerable after the installation of the application of the classic interface to retrieve my Start menu.

  (My question is should I do a clean install of Windows 8) I read that you did buying a windows pc 7, you can do a clean install on another machine and it does not check if win7 is currently the SSD or HARD disk) on the new drive SSD and just install or update each device driver manually or have the LONG PATH that is :

  R & R and the DVD USB drive to install windows 7 on SSD. Make a gazillion updated hardware and software using windows update and TVSU, and restart a dozen times. Then install the upgrade of windows 8 by recommendation of Lenovo. Restart, and then delete the recovery partition.

  A clean installation seems to be the fastest without a lot of unnecessary work, even though it may not work 100% at first, until all windows drivers correct 8 are installed.

  I think that the new clean install of windows 8 will be faster especially if I have all ready software on a USB key and win8 pilots.

  Hello

  My personal preference in the past has always been to perform a clean installation of Microsoft Windows after downloading all device drivers and software I need and of have unpacked them and ready to install once completed the upgrade of the operating system. Software Lenovo ThinkVantage System Update makes it quite painless to do a clean install, as it will automatically detect and install drivers missing device and ThinkPad software.

  However, I played a bit with some test the upgrade of Windows 7 systems to Windows 8, and it has worked every time. So anyway would seem to work.

  One thing to keep in mind is that you can create a USB flash drive bootable with Windows 8 quite easily using Microsoft Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool (it also seems to work as well for Windows Vista).  Very useful if you plan to try different installation methods or all just happen to have a spare 4 GB USB stick lying around.

  Kind regards

  Aryeh Goretsky