Guide to installing SSD

Hello The pc comes with a hybrid harddrive with 16 GB express cache, and some say, that I am therefore not able to install SSD. The wish for SSD comes from the upcoming Win 10 which I would like to install on SSD alongside most used applications i.e. Office and such. I've been in contact with HP, but they seem to be unable to clarify the how-to issue. Strange when you consider that they sell these pc's for a living. As I am quite new to SSD, I would warmly welcome a guide with at step-by-step for dummies on how to install SSD and new os on this particular machine. Also a list of must have's would be nice (cables, rack and ...) along with a description of where on the motherboard, the drive is to be connected. Finally any tip will probably be needed - I read somewhere, that you have to disable the original hard drive to install SSD, and somewhere else that the boot sequence needs to be changed. Others again says that the SSD will not be automatically recognized, and some say that I need to recover the pc to install SSD. All these statements leave me a little confused and with many more questions, for example what will happen with the old Win 8.1 on the C-drive, if I install a Win 10 on SSD? Wow - this was a lot to ask, but I hope someone is able to help me out, and I send you all at great thanks in advance Kindly nksdkDenmark

Hi, There is a lot of confusion and frustration with using technology. Those two words are very common on many forums. I would suggest that you Google "SSD installaton guide" and you should find ample general documentation. Installation of a 2.5" SSD will require a special mounting kit for your PC.. HP should have what you need. Please review this thread. Frankly, you are not going to gain that much in performance by using a SSD verses your exisiting configuration.

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Guide to installing XE and Apex on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 (64 bit)

I have just been through a time consuming and frustrating process of installing Oracle XE 10gR2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.3 x86-64 and I want to share my experience so that others can benefit from it and overcome the same problems more quickly.
Prior to starting I had installed OEL 5.3 and been using it for a few days. The system I am using is a home built box with an AMD Phenom X4 955 Black Edition, 8 Gb RAM, Highpoint RR2680 RAID controller with 4 1TB disks in a RAID5 array and an additional 320Gb HDD storing the OS. I am using KDE3.5 on the desktop.
The main problem I encountered was with SELinux. As I eventually intend to have this system exposed on the Internet I was reluctant to switch it off despite having read extensively about the issues surrounding it and Oracle. I had several failed attempts at the installation process before succumbing to the reality that SELinux and Oracle are not happy bedfellows. I decided to switch SELinux to permissive mode having followed the advice here.
I found a very helpful guide to installing XE on Linux here as part of the installation of an application called Spacewalk. Note that you do not need to complete the whole Spacewalk installation, but just follow the instructions in the linked page.
Before you start you need to ensure that the UID of your oracle user is less than 500. Mine was 500, so I used the following commands to fix this:
usermod -u 250 oracle
find / -uid 500 -exec chown oracle {} \;
These change the oracle UID to 250 (but check that isn't already used first!) and the find command searches for all files that were owned by oracle (but weren't after the usermod cmd) and changes them back to oracle's ownership.
Now follow the Spacewalk instructions until you reach the Server Setup section. Before you do this you need to make a couple of changes to the script /etc/init.d/oracle-xe. I found these changes in various places, such as [link(1)|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=1345771&#1345771] and [link(2)|http://dbataj.blogspot.com/2008/08/lblibrarypath-is-not-set-on-startup.html].
Note that in link(1) the oracle-xe-selinux packages installed have the same effect as the chcon command on the shared libraries so it isn't necessary to perform this step.
Open /etc/init.d/oracle-xe in vi (or your favourite editor) and do the following:
line 49: change /bin/su to /sbin/runuser
after line 52 (export PATH...) add the following lines:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
There are further changes recommended to /etc/init.d/oracle-xe in [this post|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=3201491&#3201491] but I haven't done them yet.
Having done the above changes you can now configure Oracle XE by running /etc/init.d/oracle-xe configure (as root!). As I have Apache Tomcat running on port 8080 I changed the default HTTP port to 8500 but kept the listener on its default port of 1521. Once the confuration script is done you will need to change the ports SELinux uses for Oracle as follows:
semanage port -d -t oracle_port_t -p tcp 9000 - deletes port 9000, which is the SELinux default port for Apex
semanage port -a -t oracle_port_t -p tcp 1521 - ensure that listener port is OK (assuming you used default of 1521, change accordingly if you didn't)
semanage port -a -t oracle_port_t -p tcp 8500 - add the new Apex HTTP port to SELinux
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semanage port -l | grep oracle
should show you:
oracle_port_t tcp 1521, 8500
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Having done the above you should be able to log into the database using sqlplus and the XE setup is complete.
The upgrade of Apex 2.2 to Apex 3.2.1 was fairly painless so I won't go into much detail about it - just follow the instructions provided by Oracle.
The only issue I had was right at the end of the process and is documented and answered in [this thread|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=958611&tstart=0].
That's it - I hope somebody will find this useful.

On Oracle Metalink site, there are many documents which says that Oracle 32 bit software works on 32 bits OS and 64 bits software works on 64 bits OS. Official support is only in those combination....
So there is no good way to help you in your case-XE is 32 bit application with hard codded compiled libraries which most of them would not work on 64 bit OS.
Sorry
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Any Guide to install Windows 8 Pro 64-bit on Retina 13??

Any Guide to install Windows 8 Pro 64-bit on Retina 13?? Is it possible??? I was able to install Win7, but stuck on a blue black screen on self-restart after Installing Win8.. The same iso works fine with Oracle VM... Any help? Many Thanks....

Try parallels.com. It is a virtual machine which you can have Mac and Windows both running at the same time. I currently have it installed on my Macbook Pro 13" Non Retina and it works great!
I know for a fact Windows 8 is compatible and it is also Mountain Lion compatible as well.

I'm going to install SSD in my Macbook pro, how do I install for example OSX Lion? I dont have any CD as far as I know.

I'm going to install SSD in my Macbook pro, how do I install for example OSX Lion? I dont have any CD with OSX Lion as far as I know.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Install 9iAS Faulty PDF

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I was able to download this pdf fine so I don't think we have a bad file. I'm using the 5.0 reader with ie 6.0
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Installing SSD in GT60 Dominator

Hi,
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F3 system Reset/Refresh doesn't give me the option to install on a different drive, Creating a recovery disc using BurnRecovery software doesn't seem to work? Any solutions? What if i Swap the 2 drives over physcially inside the laptop, and use the different SATA ports, would that get me anywhere?
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There's a number of different ways to do it, but here's my preference....
1. Make the MSI Burn Recovery (backup) disks/DVD's.
2. Before installing the SSD, ensure that there are NO partitions on the SSD. It needs to be unpartitioned so the Burn Recovery disks can set it up properly.
3. Remove HDD, Install SSD (into SATA3 location).
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5. After setting up the OS and getting everything running properly, shutdown.
6. Install HDD into secondary/SATA2 slot.
7. Ensure that the BIOS recognizes both drives and that the SSD is set as the boot drive.
This is much longer than just attempting to clone, but I don't trust cloning from a HDD to an SSD. In the end, if/when it doesn't work, you'll end up doing this anyway. Personally, again, I know this works and it's how I would do it. Save yourself the headache.
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Installing SSD in MacBookPro 5,1 (late 2008). Need new Mountain Lion OS for fresh install?

I'm installing SSD in MacBookPro 5,1 (late 2008). It is suggested that a clean install be done, then use migrate to move applications and files. I am upgrading from OX 10.6.8 which came with my machine and I do not have a disc for a fresh install. How do I get a Mountain Lion OS as a upgrade to do an install on the new hd? I have a back up boot and system hard drive and it could be migrated to the new disk then upgraded, but I would like to start fresh. Any suggestions either way?

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Installing SSD increased boot up time of my Macbook Pro

Hi all.
I just installed a Crucial M4 256GB SSD into the Superdrive slot of my 17in MBP with a caddy. I have formatted drive and copy all files from the HDD over to the SSD but the performance is so slow on boot. Before i installed it into notebook, I had the SSD connected via a USB dock and was able to boot from it fine. However after i installed SSD into my MBP, it takes quite a while to boot up off the HDD (3-5mins). After it boots, the SSD drive would not appear on desktop for another minute or so. When accessing the SSD, i would get the colored spinning wheel and it waits before i am able to browse SSD files.
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After clean install/SSD upgrade, how to keep prefs and wipe OS from HDD?

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Firstly, after I've done a clean install of Mountain Lion and loaded up all my apps onto the SSD, I'd like to free up memory and remove the OS and apps from the HDD. After googling, I've found lots on installing SSDs and creating a USB boot drive with ML, but can't find anything that addresses potential issues of simply deleting the OS from the old (HDD) drive. I'd appreciate any advice on dos and don'ts!
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how to install ssd in iMac 2012?

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How to install ssd in HP Pavilion 15-ab035TX

How to install ssd drive in HP Pavilion 15-ab035TX? is their any youtube video avelable for ssd instaletion in HP Pavilion 15-ab035TX? which ssd is best for HP Pavilion 15-ab035TX?

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MacBook Pro 13" Unibody Mid 2012 SSD Dual Drive Installation , i need to install ssd or hdd without removing my optical drive?

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Before I had the SSD, all was fine and running on IDE. After installing SSD and changing mode to AHCI, the boot sequence keeps changing after reboot. I did not reset the CMOS after installing the SSD. I had disabled all boot except for the SSD (which is connected to SATA Port 1). And I did save by pressing F10 after changing the sequence in BIOS.
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