I’d be glad to assist you, You can replace the 120 GB SSD and can also install the Windows 8 OS as use it as bootable disk. Please let us know if you have the Windows 8 Operating System disc as we need to change some settings and boot options from BIOS using the Windows 8 OS disc. This will be a Clean Re-Installation where the hard drive will be formatted and data will be lost so backup the data before you go ahead. Let us know if you have the Windows 8 Operating System disc to install the OS on the 120 GB SSD, do reply us back with your findings and we’ll provide you steps further.
NOTE: Please backup the data before you install the Operting System
Please contact me through private message by clicking on my name. On the next page, click the envelope icon and provide your service tag and contact information (as mentioned below) so that I may access your system records and get back to you as soon as possible.
System Service Tag No.: Registered System Owner's Name: Shipping address: Telephone number/s: Email address:
Please fill in the details and reply us back so we can check what best could be done.
Hi, I have the same situation here. Just received 256GB SSD I want to install instead of 32GB, and use it as a boot disk. I have upgraded Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 on my current setup. Most preferable would be clean install of Windows 10 on my new disk. I'm fine with formatting everything. I don't have recovery DVD or whatever (there is probably recovery partition on my 2TB HDD). How should I preceed?
Before you do anything--most computers with a tiny 32 gb ssd cannot be replaced with a bigger boot ssd. (You should have posted your model computer)The new ssd to boot windows must use the boot drive connector and be the primary boot drive, not the cache ssd drive which cannot boot the computer. If you replace your ssd boot drive with a clean install of windows 10, you will not qualify for the free upgrade and will have to buy a license. Or go thru the trouble of installing windows 8.1 first, install all the updates and upgrade to windows 10 again on the small 256 gb ssd. There are much bigger ssd and ssd hybrids available now. I would stay with the good sized 2TB drive you have now instead of a ssd.
You cannot do a clean install of the upgrade on a diff disk. You must have win 8.1 on the drive to activate the upgrade.The activation you have now stays on the MS servers and is for the original hard drive and computer--any change of hard drive invalidates the activation to prevent piracy. Read this--
I have dell xps 2720 as the guy above. I read that I need to make sone changes in bios, I just don't know what exactly I have to change.
Right now I have Windows 10 running, so Microsoft already have my computer in their database. I did the same thing with my Lenovo laptop. I read on they knowledge database that if I want clean install of Windows 10, I need to do upgrade from 8.1 first, than format, than clean install. It worked there, and I hope it will also work on my Dell Desktop.
DELL-Munawar P
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August 2nd, 2013 01:00
Hi XPSquestions.
I’d be glad to assist you, You can replace the 120 GB SSD and can also install the Windows 8 OS as use it as bootable disk.
Please let us know if you have the Windows 8 Operating System disc as we need to change some settings and boot options from
BIOS using the Windows 8 OS disc.
This will be a Clean Re-Installation where the hard drive will be formatted and data will be lost so backup the data before you go ahead.
Let us know if you have the Windows 8 Operating System disc to install the OS on the 120 GB SSD, do reply us back with your findings
and we’ll provide you steps further.
NOTE: Please backup the data before you install the Operting System
XPSquestions
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August 2nd, 2013 04:00
DELL-Munawar P
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August 2nd, 2013 04:00
Hi XPSquestions,
Thank you for your response,
Please contact me through private message by clicking on my name. On the next page, click the envelope icon and provide your service tag and contact information (as mentioned below) so that I may access your system records and get back to you as soon as possible.
System Service Tag No.:
Registered System Owner's Name:
Shipping address:
Telephone number/s:
Email address:
Please fill in the details and reply us back so we can check what best could be done.
XPSquestions
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August 8th, 2013 15:00
Thanks - I've sent you a meesage with the requested information,
Brgds JBS
I.V.
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October 11th, 2013 09:00
Hi
I have a XPS 2720. It came only with a 1TB HDD. Is there any place where I could mount an extra SSD?
Dell-Kuldeep M
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October 11th, 2013 22:00
Hi I.V.,
The system has an mSATA slot and you may use 32 GB, 64 GB or 256 GB mSATA drive.
Refer to the service manual of the system to check the available slot for mSATA drive.
The link for the manual is http://bit.ly/16pdutF.
Hope this helps. Please feel free to reply for any further assistance.
jazel.pl
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September 9th, 2015 07:00
Hi, I have the same situation here. Just received 256GB SSD I want to install instead of 32GB, and use it as a boot disk. I have upgraded Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 on my current setup. Most preferable would be clean install of Windows 10 on my new disk. I'm fine with formatting everything. I don't have recovery DVD or whatever (there is probably recovery partition on my 2TB HDD). How should I preceed?
Mary G
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September 10th, 2015 14:00
Before you do anything--most computers with a tiny 32 gb ssd cannot be replaced with a bigger boot ssd. (You should have posted your model computer)The new ssd to boot windows must use the boot drive connector and be the primary boot drive, not the cache ssd drive which cannot boot the computer. If you replace your ssd boot drive with a clean install of windows 10, you will not qualify for the free upgrade and will have to buy a license. Or go thru the trouble of installing windows 8.1 first, install all the updates and upgrade to windows 10 again on the small 256 gb ssd. There are much bigger ssd and ssd hybrids available now. I would stay with the good sized 2TB drive you have now instead of a ssd.
You cannot do a clean install of the upgrade on a diff disk. You must have win 8.1 on the drive to activate the upgrade.The activation you have now stays on the MS servers and is for the original hard drive and computer--any change of hard drive invalidates the activation to prevent piracy. Read this--
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-10/activation-errors-windows-10
See the current issue of Windows Secrets newsletter for more about installing windows 10
jazel.pl
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September 10th, 2015 15:00
Thanks for your response.
I have dell xps 2720 as the guy above. I read that I need to make sone changes in bios, I just don't know what exactly I have to change.
Right now I have Windows 10 running, so Microsoft already have my computer in their database. I did the same thing with my Lenovo laptop. I read on they knowledge database that if I want clean install of Windows 10, I need to do upgrade from 8.1 first, than format, than clean install. It worked there, and I hope it will also work on my Dell Desktop.