Search results

I decided to stop farting around with the Seagate hybrid drive. I bought a Samsung SSD 250GB and cloned the factory 1TB drive to it using Paragon. Windows Experience Index increased from 5.9 to 8.1 for data transfer rate. I may still try to add the hybrid as a secondary drive. Thanks for...

thanks theog. tried paragon but ran into different sector size issue. installed momentus xt drive and tried clean install with usb 3 and secure boot disabled. i received the missing media driver message again...im now going to try usb install...

I tried but the target drive supposedly has a different sector size and therefore cannot be used as the copy target...

I tried both UEFI and Legacy and still ran into problems. I have a replacement notebook now. I'd like to swap out the stock drive with the new Seagate. When I load TrueImage t clone the drives, the Seagate is not listed. It is currently formatted in GPT protective and I cannot do anything with...

Recovery discs came and still would not complete the restore. I'm not sure what the issue is. Returning notebook and I'll likely pick up another.

I tried to do a clean install on the new drive using the OEM disc. That is when I encountered the missing media driver. This driver issue wasn't a problem when I enabled legacy support. When I tried to do a clean install from a USB key, the hard disk was not listed as available. If I had hair...

I was trying to do a clean install using the OEM disc. I tried to create a cloned disc from the factory drive to the new hybrid but with no luck. The media driver was the hiccup point. Then when I tried to use the usb boot, the new drive was not listed as available.

Thanks Jim. Too bad I won't need the OEM disc if the recovery discs solve the issue...

I ordered HP recovery discs this afternoon. Hopefully restoring from these to the new drive will be possible using UEFI/GPT...

It is. Product key sticker is to be fastened to the PC...

Ok, thanks. What a cluster. Funny how UEFI didn't work...

Update - I changed the BIOS settings to allow for legacy support and Win 8 appears to be loading. Is it possible to switch back to UEFI (turn off legacy support) once installed (or will drive fail to boot)?

I just spent the last weekend trying to 'upgrade' my new HP Envy laptop to Windows 8 Pro using a store bought OEM disc. I bought a Seagate Momentus XT hybrid drive and tried to ghost the factory drive - no luck. I then tried a clean install to the Seagate using the Recovery Discs I prepared...