You could use the built in alienrespawn program as well if you wanted. I just used it this week to switch from a 240GB SSD to the Western Digital Black2 drive. All you would need is an 8GB or larger flash drive.
Nope, no problems with the process itself, just the fact that I didn't know what I was doing.
I'd never done it before so I watched some YouTube videos that showed how to do it with Macrium Reflect. The only thing I got tripped-up on is that you have to shrink the main OS partition before cloning so it's small enough to make it onto the size of your SSD (I went with a 240GB SSD).
I missed that part and the partition shrank to the smallest size possible which was only 25GB and I had about 190GB of un-allocated space on the drive that wasn't contiguous (at the end) so I couldn't just re-expand the partition to fill the extra space. I ended-up having to use Partition Wizard to fix it and it's now working just fine!
Of course you could also just get your hands on the system restore USB stick and do a fresh install...but who wants to wait for that?
rufusonfire
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November 28th, 2014 14:00
Can confirm that you got bad information from the support team.
The alpha has a 2.5" drive, I've replaced the stock drive in mine with a 2.5" SSD I picked-up from NewEgg with absolutely NO problems
Vedeyn
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July 15th, 2015 20:00
You could use the built in alienrespawn program as well if you wanted. I just used it this week to switch from a 240GB SSD to the Western Digital Black2 drive. All you would need is an 8GB or larger flash drive.
blekdar
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November 28th, 2014 14:00
Well that's relieving to hear. Thank you very much!
Did you have any issues with transferring the Windows Licence to the SSD or was it fairly simple?
rufusonfire
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November 28th, 2014 15:00
Nope, no problems with the process itself, just the fact that I didn't know what I was doing.
I'd never done it before so I watched some YouTube videos that showed how to do it with Macrium Reflect. The only thing I got tripped-up on is that you have to shrink the main OS partition before cloning so it's small enough to make it onto the size of your SSD (I went with a 240GB SSD).
I missed that part and the partition shrank to the smallest size possible which was only 25GB and I had about 190GB of un-allocated space on the drive that wasn't contiguous (at the end) so I couldn't just re-expand the partition to fill the extra space. I ended-up having to use Partition Wizard to fix it and it's now working just fine!
Of course you could also just get your hands on the system restore USB stick and do a fresh install...but who wants to wait for that?
Pile of Sand
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July 13th, 2015 09:00