ThinkPad Yoga 14 upgrade to SSD

Hello

I just bought the Thinkpad Yoga 14 with i5/8 GB DDR3/1 TB Hybrid drive

I also bought a processor Intel 240 GB SDD upgrade to.

I tried to clone the disk SSD, but it gives just a blank screen or select jumps back to the boot of the screen when start to boot.

I also tried to boot from a USB stick with Windows 8 on it, then install it on the SSD, but the same thing happens when you try to boot from USB (white screen or jumps back to the boot selection screen.

I tried to turn off Secure Boot, boot legacy mode, boot order, Windows load mode turn off/on... nothing works.

Technical hotline of Lenovo does not support upgrades.

Please, any help would be great.

Hello, I did the SSD upgrade last night and everything works so much better! I'm still not sure about the ram if its extensible or not.

Here are the steps I took to swap the drive hybrid SSD HARD drive:

(1) bought SanDisk Ultra II 480 GB Solid State Drive - $139.00

(2) purchased Insignia 3.0 Portable Hard Disk Drive Enclosure - $29.00

The case comes with the cable, you must clone the disks and then you can use your old HDD as a disk after having done an image backup and system if you want to, otherwise you have to buy the enclosure but will cable. I found the cost of the cable start around $10 and go on a $29, so I just went with the box. You can find quite different price elsewhere, that's just what I found locally.

(3) make a backup of your entire system to an external drive, a system image backup and image of the system CD drive just in case.

(4) download cloning software. I went with the free Sandisk recommended software - EZ GIG IV

(5) Connect and clone old HDD to your Instructions SDD news will be with your new drive or the software.

(6) once the clone is complete, unplug your internal battery in the BIOS. Instructions for this can be found in thinkpad manual.

7) turn the power off and remove the laptop cover. Instructions for this are also in the thinkpad manual.

(8) remove the old HARD drive. Thinkpad manual instructions

(9) install the new SSD. Follow the instructions in the manual of Thinkpad and Instructions supplied with SSD

(10) closing the case back up, put the screws back in and power on.

He had a black screen for a while when I turned it on and while I studied what had not worked, that I thought it was normal and literally as I was reading all came and was immediately noticeable how fast he was. I ran the Bios Update tool on the lenovo support area but I didn't have to change anything in the bios and everything works great. I did not remove the 16 GB card as Ive read that some people have. I'm still not sure if this makes a difference or not. The event viewer shows no defects, and it shows as active / online and running.

I'm always interested to find if I can pass the ram from 8 to 16 GB. If anyone knows...

Also, I've upgraded to Windows 10 the day I bought the machine, so I don't know if that has nothing to do with the swap go smoother.

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