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September 9th, 2021 15:00
e5550 ssd upgrade steps?
am upgrading my e5550 from a 500GB to 1TB WD green ssd
after i run Macrium Reflect to 'clone' the existing Win-10 drive, & put it into the laptop, what steps are necessary for the BIOS to see & use the new SSD?
i read lots of "how to replace drive" stuff, but nothing says what to do next so that the laptop will boot on the new drive
does UEFI automatically recognize & use it? or do i need to boot into BIOS ?
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XPS_Man
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September 10th, 2021 00:00
Just put it in the machine, the machine should boot from it.
As a precaution you can boot to F12 with both OLD SSD and new SSD plugged in. OLD SSD will show as windows boot manager and new one with brand name. You can choose new one and check if machine boots fine from it.
emoze2
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September 10th, 2021 16:00
did that - selected boot from usb - BSOD - looked at cloned drive on another PC via partition master; found windows partition not active as it is on the existing ssd, so set to active - tried again to boot on usb - no joy - error message = no operating system
XPS_Man
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September 10th, 2021 18:00
Full format on SSD
Clone again after Closing all running application
emoze2
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September 13th, 2021 14:00
all above irrelevant - i reformatted the 1TB ssd & then re-cloned the 550GB internal drive with AOMI (easier than Macrium) which per option also expanded the windows partition to full available space - at completion of the process, a pop-up informed that the clone may not boot from USB, and if not to put into PC and try it
it would not boot via the F12 suggestion above - so i put into the laptop
VOILA! - it works fine
maybe this will help somebody
Beffudled
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August 22nd, 2022 10:00
Hi,
Would you mind just outlining the steps you took to achieve this, about to embark on it myself! I assume it needs a seperate external USB as a go between?
Many thanks
Ralph.
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August 22nd, 2022 21:00
yes - i used a usb-to-ssd dongle while the orig'l drive was in the 5550; StarTech usb32sat3cb works fine , (i have & also use a older DriveWire adapter but it's only usb2, so slower); then format the new ssd via that external connection; then download & use the free AOMEI software to do the clone (iirc it took a bit of learning/experimenting to figure out how it works, since i don't do this everyday )
once it is cloned, just pull out the oem drive & put ssd clone in the laptop & it should boot (at least it did for me) - same process worked for my Bro recently on a different laptop
it's been awhile, so i have to look at some notes for more info - am about to do this again on an e6430 - will get back with any more relevant details as soon as i can