SSD in an Inspiron

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• Windows installation 8.1 on the 32 GB SSD in the Inspiron 14z

  Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 5423, which is an i5, 4 GB ram, 500 gb HDD and SSD of 32 GB.

  I read some messages in the forum where experts have suggested that Windows should not be installed on the SSD and should only be used for caching purposes. However when I asked on twitter handle Care of Dell said they generally follow the installation of the operating system on the drive MSata. It felt confusing.

  Please recommend if it's alright to install windows 8.1 on the SSD... or should I install the OS on the hard disk of 500 GB and SSD has only use caching for goal.

  The person who told you about Dell had no idea what they were doing, if they recommended to do this. If you intend actually to your computer, i.e. wanting to install all programs outside of Windows the ssd will get full and performance will therefore come to a standstill. Updates and even temporary files will take a sizable chunk of the ssd. I tried even with a 64 GB ssd and it was too small. 128 GB is a realistic minimum and is quite an affordable/useful upgrade.

• Install an SSD in an Inspiron 3650 I7 6700 16 GB Ram 2 TB hard drive Amd R9 380 graphic and running Win 7 Pro 64-bit

  Hello:

  I have the above referenced PC and want to add an SSD (boot with OS drive).  I would like to make this my c: drive ssd.  I want to keep the Windows 7 operating system.  I made the disarmament recovery disks I opened the PC.  I don't want to win 10.

  Could someone with their infinite knowledge teach me throughout the procedure with pictures if possible?  What parts do need me if any?

  Thanks in advance

  Tom

  I thought I was doing a 512 GB SSD.  The system came with Win 10 Pro 64 bit installation floppies, but I'm used to and prefer to use Win 7.  The idea of cloning seems interesting.  In fact, it looks to the ticket.  What cloning software is recommended.  The priority of the boot in the BIOS change after cloning?  I am concerned with what type of SSD should I purchase (interface, transfer rate, etc.), what cables, if any, and which adapters will be necessary?

  At work, I have all my computers run with SSD (OS/startup) and they run like rockets.  This new computer runs great, but with a SSD for the start, program files, "scratch disks", I'll be in the drive hyper.  I'd be in Mary for a bargain price.

  Yet once again, thank you very much for you answer quickly.  I have several Dell optiplex computers in office and did not have a problem.

  Thank you once again to Osprey

  Tom

• Replace SSD HARD drive Inspiron N7010

  I would like to replace the HARD drive in my N7010 with an SSD. Whoever did this, and if so what is regarded as the best brand/model for her?

  Hello

  Yes, you can probably go ahead and replace it. You can go to http://dell.to/1qbAdUc and search for new SSDS and replace it with one that fits your need.

  Hope this helps,

• mSATA SSD installed in Inspiron 15r SE 7520

  Hello

  I just finished the task of replacing marathon 32 GB SSD with a 240 GB mSATA we.

  I cloned my existing hard drive with Macrium reflect, and his beautiful fixed so far.

  I have a few questions tho.

  (1) the original 1 TB HARD drive and the new mSATA SSD have additional partitions hidden. There is a 500 MB EFI system partition, a 40 MB OEM partition, a recovery 490 MB, drive C partition (on the SSD and renamed E disk the disk of 1 TB) and a final recovery 12.16 GB partition.

  Can I remove the additional partitions since the original 1 TB drive? Do I need them on the new SSD more?

  (2) Intel rpaid start continuous technology to Flash a warning that he is not running. I've turned off to allow the DSS work. Then I uninstalled it. I get the warning tho. Any way I can get rid of him?

  Thank you!

  Ok thank you.

  If the million dollar question: how to do a fresh install of windows 8, or even windows 7 if it is easier, on the mSATA SSD?

  I tried from the DELL restore USB I did. No luck. Put the original image on 931 GB HARD drive.

  If all goes well a new facility can sort, which brings back me to the issue of the $ 1 million!

  EDIT:

  Think I've sorted it. I used macrium reflect to remove all hidden from the original HARD disk partitions. I changed the BIOS to boot from the mSATA SSD first, using UEFI and start-up.

  I uninstalled quick start windows 8 search engine. Everything looks good today.

• SSD SATA 3 in Inspiron 1564

  Hello

  I decided to replace the factory WD 500 GB ATA disk with an OCZ Agility 3 SATA 3 240 GB SSD in my Inspiron 1564 laptop.

  I know, the laptop does not support SATA 3, so I expect to lower speed performance but how much lower?

  I mean, going to e/s all be faster or it's a total waste of money?

  FYI, I am Windows 7 64 bit and I work with Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008, most of the time (which means a lot of IO activity).

  Please, any response is appreciated the most.

  Hi dimpant,

  Inspiron 1564 supports SATA 2 drives and is the maximum speed of 2 SATA 3 Gbit/s. The SSD performance would be better than the hard drive.

• Upgrade SSD Inspiron 11 3147: have you had any success

  OK, is that what someone had a successful upgrade their hard drive to ssd in the Inspiron 11 3147?

  Just reply:

  1: Yes or no

  2: what ssd and size

  3: what kind of procedure/software you used to put it on disc

  4: did you change in the bios so that it can run

  5: If you didn't have any success, what was the problem

  1 Yes

  2 kingston 240

  3 Macrium reflect

  4 start option changed to uefi at the local level (MBR)

  5. initially tried to use a crucial/256 using macrium reflect... copy image (data on disk saw) was not recognized as bootable (uefi or local)

  a. After successful installation attempted to clone crucial 256 from Kingston to work... would not work

  b. rated difference

  1. the original drive had three sections of connection (sata two connections and the other who looked like that might be where one would use the crucial non-working riders had only two sections working Kingston had three just as the original drive.)

  I know that my info is very generic and not very technical, but I am running.

  I replaced the stick of 4g with a key of 8 GB also... waiting on 802.1ac wireless card to complete my upgrade.

  I hope this helps.

• Bracket for SSD in Inspiron 537

  I added a PCI card with a SATA port to add an SSD for my Inspiron 537. So far so good. Mounting bracket typical SSD (2.5 inch to 3.5 inch drive Bay) has a sort to attach to the case. Any suggestions on a medium that works?

  Silverstone SDP08 imitate every installation of a standard 3.5-inch hard drive. I've never met a chassis that it wouldn't fit.

• Could not restore Windows 8 on my new SSD

  Hi all

  I installed a new 500 GB SSD on my Inspiron 14Z 5423.

  I tried to use the three months USB drive, I created there with Dell backup and restore to re-create and rebuild the (clean) software on my laptop.

  But the thing won't work, among other things, I get a message of 0 xC0000001. This means that the USB drive is corrupt? I also tried with a SATA cable using the old HD connected via USB. This is because the SSD is built in 'and the recovery drive deos who don't know '?

  Because I can't do anything with my laptop I can't recreate the recovery USB disk, I suppose that a (XPS12) Dell recovery disk will not work because it's another machine, is that correct?

  Would a Windows.ISO engraved on a DVD work? I've got a DVD in my laptop.

  Please notify.

  Kees

  See here:

  http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/download-Microsoft-Windows-and-Office/Download-Microsoft-Windows/download-Windows-8-1-retail-and-OEM-ISO/

  So here are:

  http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/a-clean-install-of-Windows-10/

• Replace the hard drive and OS re - install Inspiron One 2330

  Hello

  I had my all-in-one desktop Inspiron One 2330 for about 18 months.  I see serious problems with the hard disk, the system hangs, and the event log is full of HD playback errors.

  ePSA diagnosis shows code 200-0142 telling me to replace the hard drive.  The chkdsk utility runs and sometimes corrects problems and sometimes clean.  Such problems at low altitude, I'm surprised that I can start far enough away from launch internet explore and write this message.

  I called Dell support and they were kind enough kindness to send me the original floppy Windows 8.1 for the Inspiron 2330.  I have a disk hard solid state ready to install, and I saw a bunch of great videos from YouTube that explain how to open the case.  The HD swap is not a big deal, but I have a few basic questions.

  I know that many readers here know the answers.  Thanks in advance for help...

  1. If I install a blank HD in this installation media machine Dell recreates all of these crazy Dell partitions?  I have not of much use for them until I ran the diagnostic ePSA and it was extremely helpful.  I hope that you will tell me that if I do a fresh install, I get a new partition ePSA addition to 8.1 Windows on my replacement drive.

  2. I do not see why this machine won't support a SATA SSD SanDisk brand new instead the 1 TB hard drive that came with it.  Is it OK to use SSD drives in these Machines from Dell?

  3. have good links for the operating system Dell re - install procedure?  I will be installing Windows 8.1 on this drive.  Strangely I find no procedure to re - install step by step operating system.

  4. I have read that the activation key for Windows is now integrated into the motherboard of the machine somewhere.  Do I need to enter this key when I re-install?  I don't see all the stickers on my machine with the key.

  Thank you for your help,

  I finished the upgrade SSD in my Inspiron One 2330 with very little trouble.  Here are answers to the questions for those who find my post using original research.

  1. the Dell Windows 8 installation media disc does not any recovery disc partition, new, retail.  If you install fresh by booting from the DVD drive, you get a nice clean install of Windows 8 without any extras Dell.

  It seems that the diagnosis of ePSA is hosted on the motherboard of the system and not the hard drive.  I have had no trouble to boot in diagnostic mode to run tests of ePSA, even if I see any Dell diagnostic partitions.

  If you install fresh from Windows 8 media you definitely lose the Dell recovery partition.  No big loss.  It is a little strange to wait the software stored on the hard disk to help you recover problems with the same hard drive.  I'll just do another clean DVD media installation if this happens again.

  2. my SanDisk 256 Gb SSD is impressive.  It costs ~ $80 on Black Friday, and now my Dell Inspiron One 2330 boots in 9 seconds.  This is measured from fully powered down for the moment, I type my password to connect.  9 seconds - crazy fast.  Modernization of the best ever.

  3. my internet search found many useful message board posts, some web sites and blogs.  Unfortunately there is no official Dell Reinstall procedure that I could find.  The complete replacement of unplugging the power to see Windows 8 on the screen by using a new SSD was about 70 minutes.  I gathered the information I could find and guess the rest.  Worked for me.

  4 Windows 8 activation code is not necessary for a media of Dell Windows 8 re - install.  The installation process of Windows 8 should be reading the key out of the motherboard because I've never been invited to type one in.

  Here are a few other tidbits:

  5. the Dell Windows 8 media support I was sent by Dell wasn't Windows 8 and 8.1.  I spent more time pulling down of updates, restart and then installing Windows 8.1 on the app store that I did replace the hard drive.  Don't forget: some updates depend on other updates being present.  Really, you need to run the Windows update utility several times to get everything down.

  On the good side of things, my restarts are now long 9 seconds.  I have no problem whatsoever reset to any indication that the system needs to restart to complete the installation of an update.

  6. after obtaining my update to 8.1 Windows system, I installed all the latest drivers for the Inspiron One 2330, which could be downloaded from Dell.  This figure includes a BIOS update which has been a royal pain to apply.  To do this I had to create a start-up separated from 'BACK' USB key.  In fact, it is possible to create this rudimentary special boot using utilities downloaded from Dell drive.  Locate the "diagnostic Distribution Package (DDDP)".  Good luck with that.

  7 Dell backup and restore has been completely useless for the replacement of my SSD.  I have had two drives bootable USB thumb complete with full system backups, the backup restore and Dell refused to restore my data on my Virgin SSD drive.  The error message has complained that my new drive is too small.  It was laughable: my original hard drive was something like 95% of free space.

  8. There is a bonus in all this: by rebuilding your system using the original Windows 8 media, you get a nice fast machine without the excessive Dell bloat-ware.  I do miss the software pre-installed in all.  Glad to get rid of it in fact.

• How to install the SSD for Inspiron 14 3452?

  Hello - I think I'm over my head here. I just bought the laptop 3452 Inspiron 14 model with 32GB of HDD MEM. I opened the back of the box, thinking it would be relatively easy to install a SOLID-STATE drive. However, I see is an empty slot for the HARD disk with no pins for the SSD to enter. Don't know if there is anything else I need to open? I could not find instructional videos and am afraid to do great thing with this. Please help, of course I am a novice when it comes to these things. I already used a SSD drive as external storage solution, but wanted to install this time around within the laptop.

  Thank you in advance!

  I am amazed how little information there is on the web about this: I bought this machine for the use of the lamp from my laptop main goes through a process of repair.

  I saw this on the black that deals Friday for 160 taxes included and made the big jump... I thought: I will modernize the HARD drive with a 250 GB drive I have lying around and I bump the ram to 4 GB.

  To my surprise:

  There are 1... Yes a SINGLE SLOT of RAM. and there is an opening for the HARD drive but no cable. After further review, I came to the conclusion that it is indeed not possible or viable to improve the storage on this machine. Yes, I stripped the computer down to his mother, and it's like they took the entrails of a 10 windows Tablet and put them on a laptop cover.

  So, I had a few spare parts lying around and I got a 8 GB SO DIMM that I decided to try:

  Worse: the bios bump the RAM up to 4 GB as his as he goes.

  Best screenplay: the bios will recognize 8 gb.

  To my surprise it worked with the set of 8 gb... it is a great improvement, but not stellar.

  Here is something that you can do to make this laptop can be used:

  1 - get a 4 GB or 8 GB SO DIMM, (go with 8 If you don't care guarantee, those who are for losers anyway)

  2. - are subject to the creator of windows media (internet) and install a windows own 10. too much bloatware installed on this humble machine.

  3 - buy a card SD 64 and install apps in there.

  and there you go here! a laptop USD 160 with an upgrade of the 30 dollar DIMMs and one card 64 GB sd to work its magic.

  Hope this helps

  Best regards!

• Inspiron 620 SSD upgrade is no longer support AHCI with Windows 10

  Hi all

  I had installed a Crucial SSD of CT256MX100 when you use Windows 7 without properly checking the parameters of AHCI and TRIM. This seemed to be working very well and providing very high throughput, however, upgrade to Windows 10 (from one day to the next... :/) there was a significant slowdown (20 second power to 4 minutes). After having looked around for a way to remedy this, I was unable to find the option AHCI in the BIOS for my Inspiron 620. It says in the manual of the system it is an option, an idea on how to activate it? Reinstall the OS?

  To all those who can offer constructive help, thanks in advance!

  I think you'll find these (which were the first latitude to support SATA) used a SATA to PATA Bridge chip - the controller is actually PATA, using a bridge to the SATA drive.  There is therefore, no AHCI option on them.

  The Dx30 models were the first with native SATA (and AHCI) support.

• Inspiron 15 7559 - upgrade SSD

  Hello world

  I recently bought the 7559 Inspiron, 16 GB RAM, UHD/touch screen, 4 GB NVidia, 1 TB HDD and 128 GB of SSD. I already traded on the HARD drive for a 1 to Samsung 850 Pro SSD. I am now considering permutation of the SSD 128 GB for an equivalent of 512 GB. I am aware of which can cause me problems with cloning as the 128 GB is the C: drive, but my question is SATA and PCIe.

  The current SSD is a CM871 M.2 2280 128 GB Samsung. What I want to replace this with is a Samsung 950 PRO 512 GB SSD - 2280 m2 - MZ-V5P512BW - 3.0 PCIe x 4 (NVMe). However, I can't determine if it would work at the location of my Inspiron 7559 m2. The existing SSD seems to be SATA and the replacement of favorite a PCIe, but I do not know if the 7559 has a switchable M.2 port as some motherboards.

  So my questions are - can the Inspiron 7559 take the card PCIe Samsung 950 m2 Pro and if not can anyone recommend a good map of M.2 512 GB SSD to replace my existing 128 GB SSD card?

  Thank you

  The port of m2 on this model is SATA-only - it will not load a disc M.2 PCIe or M.2 NVME.

  The line of Samsung Evo m2 SATA drives will work fine.

• New Inspiron 3650 - how to add an SSD

  I recently got my new i7 Inspiron 3650 with a 2 TB HARD drive. I need to add an SSD to the machine and need advice on how to do it.

  First question is: is it possible for one SSD + HDD in this computer? Or is it limited to a single player?

  Open the case, I see that there are 4 units of SATA data cable (2 available) on the card mother, however there is no available additional power cable. The single power cable has two connectors, a session on the HARD drive and the other to the DVD player. How can I add another cable or splitter to route power to the SSD?

  In addition, there are available for a 2.5 drive bays ", but I need an enclosure for mounting the drive. Is there an add-on Dell blue plastic mounting kits available for this? Otherwise, I can get the generic Assembly for this kits.

  I would appreciate if any part numbers/accessories from Dell can be recommended to achieve this.

  Thank you.

  Hi Hkhawaja,

  Yes, you can certainly have an SSD and a HARD drive, and I suppose you want to put the OS on the SSD.

  This thread offers answers to some of your questions. And here is the link to your manual.

  I have a link below for a very nice Windows reinstallation guide, which will help you to download an ISO of 10 Windows you can use to install the OS on the new drive.

• SSD for Inspiron 7000 15

  Dell will add an option of SSD 256 GB for the Inspiron 15 7000 anytime soon?

  Hi Jim.S,

  We do not have this information. If Dell has decided to do, it will appear on the web page of Inspiron.