authorandrew
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I have a Samsung 850 Pro fresh out of the box, and I'm hoping to clone my old Seagate onto this SSD, and then use it as my primary boot drive. If possible, I'd like to do this without reinstalling windows and all my programs.
The drive is recognized on Windows (once I initialized it in Partition Manager, per Samsung's FAQ instructions) as a 250gb drive, but it is not displaying as an SSD in the Defragment dialog, nor is the Samsung Magician software recognizing it. This leads me to believe I've not set this up correctly as an SSD, and I want to get this resolved before I clone the drive with Samsung's software.
I have the drive connected through a USB cable to a board that's from a USB Hard Drive. The connection interface is the same (Sata 2?) so I assumed I could clone the drive while the SSD was plugged in to USB, and then swap out the internal HDD with the new, cloned, SSD (I run a laptop therefore only one drive slot). Perhaps the USB connection is screwing up how the SSD is being read?
I don't have any experience with SSDs, so I'm looking for help here. I'm anxious about messing up this 250 dollar purchase, so any advice is welcome. Thanks!
The drive is recognized on Windows (once I initialized it in Partition Manager, per Samsung's FAQ instructions) as a 250gb drive, but it is not displaying as an SSD in the Defragment dialog, nor is the Samsung Magician software recognizing it. This leads me to believe I've not set this up correctly as an SSD, and I want to get this resolved before I clone the drive with Samsung's software.
I have the drive connected through a USB cable to a board that's from a USB Hard Drive. The connection interface is the same (Sata 2?) so I assumed I could clone the drive while the SSD was plugged in to USB, and then swap out the internal HDD with the new, cloned, SSD (I run a laptop therefore only one drive slot). Perhaps the USB connection is screwing up how the SSD is being read?
I don't have any experience with SSDs, so I'm looking for help here. I'm anxious about messing up this 250 dollar purchase, so any advice is welcome. Thanks!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- HP Pavilion dm4 3170-se Beats Edition
- CPU
- Intel i5-3210M @ 2.50GHz
- Memory
- 12 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD 4000
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP 22xi (1920x1080)
- Screen Resolution
- 1600x900
- Hard Drives
- Seagate Momentus XT 500gb with 16gb SSD hybrid
- Browser
- Opera 26.0