Lenovo G780 SSD Upgrade

Hello,
I have purchased a 512Gb Samsung 840 Pro, and I am not sure how to get a new copy of Windows 8 onto it without re-purchasing the operating system.
Basically, I want to do a FRESH install of Windows onto this SSD, because of the bad experiences I've had with hard drive cloning.
However a fresh install raises a couple of questions.
First, Lenovo has put custom optimizations (like BIOS optimizations, faster start times, faster shutdown times, sleep times, etc) into the system. When I do a fresh install of Windows, will I lose these Lenovo system optimizations?
Second, how would I get a copy of Windows 8, since it is already installed on my machine by the manufacturer, would I still have to buy another copy for use?
Thanks in advance.

hi kuakeye,
If you're G780 came with a regular 5400RPM HDD then Installing 512Gb Samsung 840 Pro SSD will make your PC boot much faster as the read/write speed of the SSD will outperform the regular HDD (you PC will be much faster even if you lose the custom lenovo optimizations).
In doing a fresh install, you will need to have one of the following:
1. A recovery disc - you will need to contact lenovo for this (fees may apply)
2. If your PC came with a Win8 Standard, you can borrow a Windows 8 standard disc to clean install Windows 8 (Windows will be automatically activated via the OA3 key or you can activate it by phone).
3. If you have a Windows 8 retail key, you can create a bootable Windows 8 disc / USB using this method and use it to clean install the OS on the SSD.
Best regards,
neokenchi
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Lenovo Flex 10 SSD upgrade

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This is my first post. I have just brought a Lenovo Flex 10 with a celeron n 2807 chip. I asked in the shop if they could do an ssd upgrade and they said they wouldn't recommend it because the celeron n2807 chip is not good enough to run an SSD internal flash drive. Would anyone recomened upgrading the interneral storage from the 5400rpm hard drive to an SSD?

Pardon my lack of confidence in your shop, but that's a joke. SSDs will improve PC's right back to the beginning of the SATA offering. I have a NUC with the following Celeron:
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Audio not working after Windows 10 upgrade (Lenovo G780)

After my upgrade to Windows 10 on my Lenovo G780, it seems like my audio isn't functioning anymore. I tried to plug in my headset as well to check if I had audio coming through that, but it does not appear in the Playback Devices window when plugged. The laptop comes with Conexant SmartAudio HD and also lists High Definition Audio Device under Device Manager. Could anyone help me out and let me know if there's some problem I am overseeing. I found a page that has some Conexant software for windows 10 but I am not sure if they are updated drivers or if they even support my machine (the page does not list support for G780). Any help would be appreciated. Thank You.

Well, it has been a long road on the Win 10 upgrade. At first I got the same error message as above, but after deleting the Dolby Advanced Audio v2 in Win 10 using Control Panel Programs and Features and rebooting, I got into the continual BSOD upon reboot. Here are the steps I took to at least get stable on Windows 10. First, I rolled back to Windows 8.1 using the advanced feature in the BSOD recovery options. Once back in Win 8.1, I deleted the Dolby Advanced Audio v2 using Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel. Then I downloaded the Win 10 update and re-installed it. Once that completed, I updated the Intel Graphics driver under the display adapters (on my G780 it is an Intel HD Graphics 4000, and the driver can be found at https://downloadcenter.intel.com/). Currently I am running version 10.18.10.4252 for my machine. Then, under the Device Manager, I updated the Conexant SmartAudio HD driver under the Sound, video, and game controllers. That driver is currently at 8.66.4.50 and was automatically downloaded from the web when I requested to update driver. I also changed several others settings such as Notify to schedule restart after updates are installed instead of automatic (under Settings --> Update & Security --> Advanced Options) and Do you want Windows to download driver software and realistic icons for your devices? --> No, let me choose what to do, never install driver software from Windows Update. After that, I shut down the machine, waited a moment and booted back up. I have no idea why this helped or if it is overkill, but I am stable and running without a fear of rebooting now. Hope this helps if someone else is having this same issue.

Results and a Procedure for SSD Upgrade on T410s

After finding that my T410s 1.8" hard drive was 35% - 60% slower than the variety of 2.5" SATA Hard Drives in my older Thinkpads, I selected a Kingston SSDNow V+180 128GB for $219 for the SSD upgrade from Amazon because this Kingston model had the best price for published performance.
If anyone else is thinking of this upgrade, here are the results using CrystalDiskMark to measure Read and Write speeds. (The Kingston has much better Write speeds than the Intel SSD used in some T410s models.)
System: T410s with 1.8" Toshiba 250G drive > upgraded to Kingston SSDNow V+180 128GB
                                                    HDD             SSD               Improvement
Sequential Read 1000MB           47 MB/s        190 MB/s       304%
Sequential Write 1000MB           46                 150                 226%
Random Read       512KB           21                 174                 728%
Random Write       512KB           22                 149                 577%
Random Read           4KB          0.30               14.0              4566%
Random Write           4KB          0.68               16.0              2253%
Upgrade Procedure
To complete the upgrade, I restored a Windows 7 Disk Image from the HDD to the SSD. Partition Alignment and TRIM were both correct after the transfer to the SSD. The Windows 7 image was on a USB drive where I maintain a Fresh Install image that has my full setup.
Notes: To restore a Windows 7 image from a larger drive to a smaller drive, you must create the disk image after shrinking drive C:\ to a size that permits it to fit on the new smaller drive . . so your larger source drive MUST HAVE unallocated space before creating the Windows 7 Disk Image. When shrinking drive C:\ on your source drive, shrink it enough so it will easily fit with room to spare on new smaller drive, otherwise Windows 7 image restore will not work.   You can expand drive C:\ to fill the entire new SSD drive after restoring the image to the SSD. (more notes about the source drive below)
- The Disk Imaging mentioned in this post is built into Windows 7 - Acronis is great but not needed for this SSD upgrade.
- Shrinking and Expanding drive C:\ is done in Windows 7 Disk Management
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http://www.overclock.net/t/1133897/windows-7-ssd-tweaking-guide
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Windows 7 boots to the login screen in 16 seconds now compared to 28 seconds before.
The T410s with the Toshiba HDD was a real drag compared to my older T500 and T61 with stock 5400rmp Hard Drives.
The T410s with the Kingston SSD is now my quickest system.
The measured results I get from the Kingston are a little slower than the results published in an independent review of this drive using the same free CrystalDiskMark utility. I know my Partition Alignment is good, so maybe the different results are caused by some difference in the computers.  To make sure the disk image transfer wasn't causing a performance hit, I also performed a from-scratch install of Windows 7 directly on the SSD. The performance tests results were the same with either method getting Win7 on the SSD.
The 1.8" Toshiba Hard Drive that came with the T410s was painfully slow, I am a little surprised Lenovo would put this drive in one of their business class systems.
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Thank you for posting this. It was very helpful in my decision to move from the Toshiba 250G drive to the 256G Kingston. The performance of the drive is awesome. I thought I would share a few items on how I went through the upgrade.
I used the Lenovo Rescue and Recovery and performed a full BASE backup. It took about 12-14 hours to backup around 220 GB.
I then replaced the old drive with the new drive.
After replacing, I used the two recovery DVDs to restore to factory settings.
After back to factory, I went through all the basic setup so I could use the OS.
I then downloaded the critical update for Recuse and Recovery.
After that I ran rescue and recovery with the option to replace everything.
The restore of the data took 3-6 hours (didn't sit around to watch the whole thing).
Everything was restored perfectly. No issues at all.
I had read that you could boot off of the external backup on USB, but I couldn't validate that myself. Lenovo tech support also said it couldn't be done. I had reviewed my plan with Lenovo support a few times to be sure I was doing things right. The knowledge level on R&R is pretty inconsistent.
Also, a note that my original drive was encrypted with PGP Whole Disk Encryption. When R&R backs up the data it's no longer encrypted and I didn't have a password on the backup. I turned off disk defrag after the restore. I confirmed Windows 7 was set to use TRIM.
I highly recommend the drive. The 256GB wasn't cheap, but I needed that amount of space. The performance like I said, is excellent.
Good post, swbca. Thanks!

Lenovo Windows 7 Upgrade questions (please help)

Dear Lenovo Community:
I recently purchased a Thinkpad T500 and signed up for the Lenovo Windows 7 Upgrade Program. I have a few questions that I haven't been able to find the answers to elsewhere. I was hoping some of you could help:
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1. Bit foggy on this. Will have to do a clean install for sure. Not sure if 32 and 64 bit are on same disk. As you have ultimate, you might be at an advantage here.
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Compliant - G780 BIOS Upgrade Broken laptop

Hi
(Not quite a dup of: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-3000-and-Essential/Lenovo-G780-not-working-after-BIOS-update/td-p...
Please take this as a warning to anyone about to upgrade to the newest (Apr 2013 BIOS for Windows 8)
Im very unhappy atm, I have installed the upgrade and like the person in the other post my laptop no longer works!
I have tried the workaround someone suggested on the other post and initially it seemed to work, however turning off UEFI has meant I no longer have VT-X support for virtualisation I bought the higher end spec so I could run my development VMs on the laptop, but no I cant unless I remove all the fancy stuff from the VM itself, and as I run Visual Studio and Sql Server on my development VM thats impossible... all these things worked prior to the upgrade.
Lenovo need to pull the upgrade for G780 or apply a fix immediately, (perhaps a downgrade for the BIOS) because I currently have a £600 worthless paperweight and all I can find for contact is expense 0845 numbers...
So not best pleased
Lee

"all these things worked prior to the upgrade."
So what was the reason for the upgrade to start with ? It seams as though you just broke it for no reason..
Its not cheap computers that are the problem, its the people that can now afford to use them thats the problem.

Lenovo G780 Metal (59359250) Notebook Intel Core i7 3632QM(2.20GHz) Max Memory

What is the Maximum amount of memory allowed for the Lenovo G780 Metal (59359250) Notebook Intel Core i7 3632QM(2.20GHz)? Can I expand the memory to 16GB? Or is the max 8GB? Thanks.

hi madnhate,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
According to your system Specs Sheet your system can support Maximum of 8GB (2x4GB)
I also tried checking this with Crucial's Memory upgrade calculator and it has the same info
Best Regards,
Solid Cruver
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Lenovo S500 SSD

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hi formoza,
Welcome to the Lenovo Forums.
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Lenovo g780 polish instead of english windows and problems

Hello
One week ago i bought a lenovo g780 laptop. I turned it on and although in the website of the store i bought it (e-shop Greece) says that it comes with windows 8 english , mine was with polish windows....
I contected them and they told me that now with windows 8 you can change the language packs so there is no problem. Really... i knews that but the problem was... how i am supposed install windows 8 when the isntaller was in Polish. Anyway after 2 hours with another laptop next to me translating from google i managed to install it and go to control panel.
I changed the language and i thought my problems was solved but... some things were still in polish. Some others some times were in english and other times randomly in polish. For example when i was right clicking on desktop one time i could see "graphic properties" and the next time it was in polish.
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I know that those are not real problems and most of the things can be fixed if i start searching but this is not the case right? I bought a laptop with windows 8 ENGLISH version. Not polish not chinese not russian. The shop i bought it blames you and they told me the can't change the product description from their website because the description comes from you. So what's the truth? Should i go back to the store and start screaming this time or things is like they say/

Hi Novikor42,
The order to re-install the driver is already sorted out in our Support Website; please download the drivers or all of them at a time from our website and install directly which will replace the drivers in the computer that are already installed. Below is the link to steps to download the drivers:
How do I use "My Download List"?
Do post us back for further queries.
Best Regards
Shiva Kumar
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Satellite R630-155 - Fan is too noisy and SSD upgrade

I am the owner of a Toshiba Satellite R630-155 (Core i5-480). My problems are:
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Shame for Toshiba... nice design and portability but everything else is a big flaw. Their support in non existent and they do not value their customers. I feel they stole my money and I'll never buy a Toshiba laptop again.
Sorry for the big message, but I need I have to warn potential customers. Can someone help me with any of the above problems? Do you have the same problems too?
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Hi buddy,
Regarding the fan and heat issue: Did you make BIOS update? Friend of me has Satellite R630 too and he told me that fan activity with new BIOS version 2.10 is reduced. Furthermore the notebook is cooler than before so I would recommend installing this update. You can download the BIOS update here:
http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com > Support & Downloads > Download Drivers
But before you start the BIOS update you should consider the following tips:
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-Unzip all files from zip archive before you start the update file
-Close all running programs and also the antivirus and firewall
-Make sure that battery is fully charged
Regarding the SSDs its always a little bit complicated installing 3rd party products and nobody can guarantee that such parts would work. You are always on safely side with original Toshiba spare parts.
Everything what you can do is installing the newest firmware for SSD and hope that it works but who knows maybe the BIOS update will also help you in this case ;)

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Hi guys,
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RAM: 4 GB of 1067 MHz DDR 3
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 512 MB
Note about the GPU: This comp has the dual graphics chips, but I've been always using the "high-performance" one, which is what is listed above (the other one is a GeForce 9400M).
OS: Most current version of Mavericks (OSX 10.9.2)
In looking up SSD's, I've found that people that have had laptops with similar specs to mine have had success with the Crucial M500 SSDs.
After I get my drive all figured out, I want to use Boot Camp to install Windows 8 on the SSD. Currently, I do not have any Windows installations on my computer. My computer is not supported for Windows 8 installation through Boot Camp, despite the fact that hardware-wise, it is compatable with Windows 8. However, I have found discussions that are pretty standard on how to get Windows 8 installed on my computer.
-So, my first question is: Was my research good for this given SSD for my computer? It seems like Samsung makes the best SSDs, but I haven't found any evidence that it would be really compatable with my computer.
-My second question: Given that I will have just installed an SSD, will Windows 8 installation be doable? This is probably the most important question for me, because if it's not possible, then I'd rather just buy Windows 7 right off the bat and install that in boot camp instead.
-My third question: If I can get Windows up and running, how does my computer's double graphics chip configuration work in Windows? I'd want to make sure that Windows is using the more powerful of the chips and not the less powerful one.
-My fourth question: My computer has gone from Leopard to Snow Leopard to Mavericks, and I never performed a "clean install" for any of these OS upgrades. If I clone my HD to the SSD, would it be beneficial for me to run a Mavericks clean install, and then pull all my necessary data off my backup drive?
Sorry for the long-winded post, and I know much of it is demonstrated elsewhere. I have found many discussions involving SSD upgrades, and getting Windows 8 on a late 2008 MBP, but I haven't found anything that has shown both being done. Both seem easy to do, but I just don't know if doing both in tandem is going to cause a bunch of problems. Has anyone out there done this, and can anyone offer me any advice on how to make this process any smoother? I really like doing this upgrade now, because if I run into Windows issues, or other issues on the SSD, I could still just boot from my old hard drive and use my computer. Thanks everyone!

beestmode,
I have a Mid 2010 MacBook Pro, and I put a Samsung 840 PRO SSD into mine. Where did you find evidence that this model SSD would not work in your MacBook Pro? (The SSD which you’ve installed has a good reputation, so you should have no reason to regret your choice.)
Windows 8 via Boot Camp will not be possible with your model MacBook Pro. In Boot Camp, you could install up to Windows 7, either 32-bit or 64-bit. A virtualizer such as Parallels Desktop or VirtualBox could allow you to install Windows 8, but virtualizers have their own sets of positives and negatives.
Since I have a 13-inch model with only one GPU, I don’t know how your dual GPUs would be handled on the Windows side.
When I’d installed my SSD, I did a clean installation of Mavericks onto it, keeping Snow Leopard on my old internal disk, and putting it into an external enclosure.

Can't Install windows on Macbook Pro Early 2011 with SSD upgrade

Dear all,
A few months ago I had an SSD upgrade and I purchased a Caddy and installed my old HDD on it, and I also changed my Battery because the old one only lasted for 15 inutes after 40 cycles :O
Anyways when I insert a windows 7 or 8 x64 DVD in my USB Samsung DVD Drive, My mac book detects Windows (with the windows 7 DVD) and Detects Windows and EFI Boot (with Windows 8), I have tried every option of those doesn't work.
With EFI it just boots Mac
With Windows it boots to a screen with one blinking cursor top left and then it ejects the DVD ROM and that it :s
I do not know what is wrong :/
P.S. when i installed the SSD I had windows on the old drive it didn't work after the upgrade (this is what made me link both incidents).

I am willing to try this, but I was kinda trying to find a solution that doesn't need me to unscrew stuff ..etc

Installing Lenovo Windows 7 upgrade in a new hard disk

I have an U330 and I have received Lenovo Windows 7 upgrade disc. My pre-installed OS is Windows Vista.
I bought a new 500 Gb hard disk and I want to change my U330's hd for this new one AND also want to install Windows 7 in this new hard disk.
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Lenovo g780 is very slow with Windows 7

Hello all forum users, please help me with my big problem.
I have Lenovo g780 from 3 months. I`m really supprised, becouse i have the best version (model 20138) and for me is really slow. When i boot up it takes more like 5 min. Looking for wirless more like 3 min. I reinstalled windows and update all drivers from lenovo site but is still this same. Please help me somehow.
Procesor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20Ghz
RAM 16 GB
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Hi Anomus,
I’m sorry to hear that the issue persists even after performing OSRI (Operating System Re-Install), this confirms that this might be hardware related. I would Strongly Suggest Calling Technical Support for Assistance to get the details of nearest Authorized Service Center to get the issue analyzed.
Click here to open a link where you can select the country and get the exact contact support number. I’m sure they will be a great help.
Do post us back for further queries.
Best Regards
Shiva Kumar
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