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‎11-06-2015 06:48 PM

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Kingxenvy, how did your ssd upgrade go?

‎11-07-2015 02:39 AM

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@Jsanchez1221 wrote:
I had the same exact question. I am planning on replacing a 1TB hdd that came with my envy 15t slim quad windows 7 laptop with a 512 gb samsung 550 pro. I read that the recovery disks that I had made would not work if I ever needed to do a system restore because the size of my ssd was smaller than the factory 1TB HDD. What I gather from Sparkles1 is that if I ever needed to do a system restore from the recovery discs/usb I made, it would work because my ssd is over 128gb. Am I correct?

 

 

You can use the system recovery disks or usb recovery flashdrive if the new SSD or hard drive has at least 160GB  in storage capacity.  

 

A 128 GB SSD would not be a candidate for use with the HP Recovery media.


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‎11-07-2015 04:12 AM

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Thanks for the clarification. Which cloning software do you recommend? I read on a post heres that samsung's software doesn't clone the oem recovery partition, which is fine because I was going to have my usb recovery stick. However, I am worried that it might not copy over the HP Tools partition. I heard I need that for troubleshooting purposes. Does anyone know if samsung's data migration software copies all other hp partitions aside from the recovery?

‎11-07-2015 06:32 AM

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I own three Samsung EVO series SSDs and I have not had great success with the Samsung data migration software.  I have had success with Apricorn's EZGIG cloning software and Paragon software's Drive Copy 14 software.

 

 

 

Disclaimer: Paragon does provide me with NFR versions of their software at no cost to me for evaluation purposes.  


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‎11-07-2015 06:36 AM

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Thank you, erico. So both those software clone all the oem partitions as well?

‎11-07-2015 06:50 AM

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@Jsanchez1221 wrote:
Thank you, erico. So both those software clone all the oem partitions as well?

Yes. Both of them do. 

 

Using the HP Recovery Flash drive on an SSD is pretty straightforward, although you may have to prep the SSD by use of the Diskpart commands. The Factory image recovery creates all of the  required partitions. 


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‎11-07-2015 06:52 AM

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How would I have to prep the ssd exactly?

‎11-07-2015 06:59 AM

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The very first post of this thread explains how it is done.

 

I authored this thread and made it a sticky months ago.

 

My intent was to try to help people understand what would be needed to successfully transition from a legacy spinner hard disk to an electronic SSD in a notebook PC.


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‎11-07-2015 07:00 AM

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Oh okay. Thank you so much. You've really helped me a lot.

‎11-07-2015 11:28 PM

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Do you know the general difference between Paragon OS to SSD and Drive Copy?
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