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03-11-2017 02:40 PM - edited 03-11-2017 03:10 PM
I don't know, I just met him by the vending machine and had an idle conversation. Anyway, he won't be doing it. It'll be me doing it with your kind guidance (please). I'm ok with modifying hardware but nervous of doing these types of changes, so I'd never attempt this without an expert to guide me.
But I thought it was interesting that he implied the old HDD could be retained as an alternative disk (in case of any problems). I was just wondering whether that was true or not.
According to Amazon my evo has been 'dispatched'.
03-11-2017 03:16 PM
If you mean for storage yes you can have 2 drives in the machine but it causes problems to have 2 hard drives in the laptop which have operating systems on them. So you do the clone from a bootdisk and then remove the original drive before booting for the first time to make sure the M.2 is set up right. Obviously you have to set the M.2 as the boot disk. Assuming it boots OK you put the original drive back in but I strongly recommend you format it using a utility disk before you boot up with the old drive in the system. You can then use the old drive for storage and even as a backup drive so you have a shadow copy of your important files or even an exact system image you could resort to in the event of a disaster.
03-13-2017 05:15 PM
Hi Huffer,
I've received the EVO but I have a change of plan, I'm going to clone the HDD to the M2, then remove the HDD and subsequently (later) replace it with an equivalent new SSD. People may disagree but I think hardware is cheap these days (and software is expensive). The old HDD I've removed will go into a desk drawer for safe keeping for a few weeks or months.
My reasoning is that I run a lot of image processing software and I can store the images on the new second internal drive. When I run the software, I'll get the same speed of access to everything. If I retain the old HDD and use that for storage, I'll have faster program execution but a potential bottleneck reading/writing data from the HDD (they're very big files).
A hidden benefit is that I retain the old HDD as a backup for a while.
I would never have considered doing this without your advice, so many thanks for that.
03-17-2017 08:50 AM
I cloned the HDD to the M2 using Macrium Reflect, shut down, removed the HDD, booted up, checked the bios, shut down, then inserted a new 2.5" and configured that as a basic disk. Booted up and all was good.
A little later, the machine refused to boot and no end of debugging, recovery, bios changes etc. didn't reveal the cause.
So I removed the M2 and the 2.5", reinserted the HDD, booted up ok, cloned it to the 2.5" in an external chassis, removed the HDD, inserted the 2.5", booted, checked the bios, shut down, inserted the M2 and configured that as a basic disk, shut down, checked the bios. Booted up and all has been good since.
I have a suspicion that if you populate both slots, the O/S needs to be Disk0 (in my case the 2.5"). I suspect this is because during boot, the 2.5" powers up first, the M2 is not 'seen' and the machine cannot boot. Putting the O/S into the 2.5", that powers up first and it boots cleanly. This may be nonsense, but it does seem to fit the scenario.
I also turned Write Caching off (both drives), set high performance mode, checked for driver updates and also windows updates.
Anyway, I now have the O/S in a blisteringly fast 1Tb SSD and a second 1Tb SSD for storage. (I still have the original HDD in an external chassis, in case of any disasters).
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