Recent content by Epoch

This is a very reasonable question and so I hope you think my answer is reasonable. Much of my storage drive is taken up by .wav files as I have programs to run VSTs for drums (BFD2). That is, I have a program that accesses a ton of professionally recorded drum sounds so that I can create drum...

Woohoo!!! I did exactly what you said, and once I exited the program, the computer automatically rebooted and went to my desktop. I also got rid of the recovery partition, and resized the "Lenovo" D: parition from 12 GB down to 4.25 GB, so my C: is 470 GB big. :thumb::thumb::thumb: Now to move...

Ohhhh this makes a lot of sense now. 1) Make bootable USB drive with Macrium, ensure you can BOOT from it. 2) Image current SSD to the external drive via USB-SATA cable (you are correct I have a 500 GB HDD, it was my original HDD for my laptop) 3) Swaps SSDs. 4) At boot use bootable USB to...

This sounds like a reasonable plan too, similar to the one posted above. I just didn't know it was easy to resize partitions afterwards. Would Macrium be able to do this, or does Windows have an option (in the "Manage" ==> "Storage" ==> "Disk Management"?) Wait, this sounds very much like...

Ah yes, WinPE, the thing I had never heard of that Macrium wanted me to download 400 MB of the first time I went to check out this program. I finally did because people said it worked. So let me get the order straight here: I 1) Clone in Macrium successfully. 2) Make the WinPE bootable USB. 3)...

Hello everyone. I'm back. The v2.0 in the title is for the fact that I had a very similar problem to this one 2 years ago that I posted about here when I was migrating my Windows 8 from the installed HDD to a Samsung 830 256 GB SSD. I realized I needed some more space on my SSD so I just went...

Okay so I deleted around 25 GBs of temporary unpacking data, and now my "Temporary files" is back down to a reasonable 9 GB. I am much more at ease, and will not attempt to install MATLAB until I have more time to deal with this. Thanks for the help!

Okay so I found another thread and downloaded this program, which is actually pretty amazing because you can "visually" see how much each programs are taking up of the data. I was correct in that the installation process was unpacking a bunch of data, and I continued to delete all of those...

Hello all, I have a Lenovo Z580 running Windows 8 on a 256 GB SSD, which was cloned from the original drive using Paragon cloning software. I got the computer up and running about a month ago, and I started personalizing it by installing programs and such. At the beginning of today, I probably...

I didn't get the EaseUS clone to boot, but the free Paragon program runs the OneKey Recovery. I haven't actually done it to see if the image would burn correctly, but I DID copy the recovery partition from my SSD onto a USB. I have already started personalizing the OS so I am not going to try to...

THEOG! IT WORKED! So I know you posted this awhile ago, but I hadn't tried it because I could only find the paid version. After you posted this link I found the free trial version. I installed the program, went to Disk Migration, automated everything, took out the HDD, put in the SSD, and it...

Nice find Theog, mainly because this is directly from Lenovo's website, which means that if it doesn't work at some step I can tell them that I was following the guide published by them and it didn't work. I will try it later and update.

I downloaded this program, trial version, and used "Clone disk" option, let the program automatically set the partition sizes. It took over an hour to clone the disk and I checked to make sure the partitions were there on the SSD. They were. I moved the SSD into the laptop and I power it on. It...

If I have to pay money for the recovery disks I am just gonna find and use a Windows 7 iso. And shouldn't you be able to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for less than that? Shouldn't THAT come with disks? Or are they making that download only? My idea, which I haven't done yet, is to burn an image of...

I just now swapped the hard drive for the SSD and it encountered immediately the same error screen as when I tried to boot from the enclosure. I then turned the computer on using the Novo button, and all options to boot from the Novo button got me to the same error screen EXCEPT the system...