Replacing the hdd to a ssd.

I would like to know if the action of replacing the hdd will void the warranty, and also which is the size of the hdd?

Hi:
There should be no problem with the warranty as long as you don't break something trying to install the HDD.
HP will not support the SSD however and your recovery disks won't work because the new drive will need to be the same size as the 500 GB HDD you removed.
I have a workaround for the recovery disk issue...
According to your PC's system specs it came with W7 Home Premium 64 bit.
It has to be the English, French or Spanish version too.
If so, download the W7 Home Premium 64 bit ISO file at the link below.
Burn the file to a disk using a DVD burning program that can burn ISO files so the DVD is bootable.
Burn at the slowest speed you can.
Then use the 25 character product key on the bottom of your notebook to activate the installation.
Visit your notebook's support and driver page to install any drivers you need.
Link to the MS W7 downloads.
http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/
Link to your notebook's support and driver page.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?product=5079222&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&os=228&query=dv6-6060e...=
Paul

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Installing a Samsung SSD on my 3 year old ThinkPad W510 was easy. Getting Windows 7 set up took me days.
Here are some lessons learned so you can do it faster.
Backup
Lenovo Rescue & Recovery will back up files to a USB 3.0 disk but it took 10+ hours and it put several files and folders at the top level. Can it back up multiple disks (HDD and SSD)? Probably not.
Backup
Windows 7 Backup & Restore doesn’t have those problems backing up data files but when trying to save a disk image to an external drive that’s > 2 TB (with 4K blocks), it runs for a while then fails. The generic error message and event log are not helpful, costing hours of debugging.
SSD “frozen”
Some web sites say that an SSD will perform better if you fully erase it before installing the OS, but when I tried to do this, the Samsung Magician software said the SSD was “frozen.” Apparently this is a confusing way to say it’s locked from erasure. Magician’s workaround recommendations didn’t help. Magician’s PDF guide has alternate workaround recommendations (like turning of AHCI mode in BIOS) but I didn’t find them soon enough.
Clone the HDD or install fresh?
Restoring Lenovo’s factory disk image onto the SSD (instead of cloning the HDD) fixed accumulated problems but it took several days of work and problem solving. (The HDD’s hidden SYSTEM_DRV partition was full. Did that cause some of the problems?)
How to over-provision the SSD
“Over-provisioning” boosts an SSD’s sustained write performance by allocating temporary space. The Samsung Magician program will set this up -- but not on a drive with the Lenovo_Recovery “Q:” partition. Moving and resizing C: and Q: with GParted Live didn’t solve this. Instead it made me start all over restoring the factory disk image and the Windows Updates and Lenovo Updates. The solution (thanks, Samsung’s phone tech support!) is to use GParted or Windows Disk Management to shrink the C: partition. All it needs is some unallocated space between partitions anywhere on the SSD. (Samsung recommends 10%.) You don’t have to do anything to allocate that space to the purpose.
Partition alignment
For speed, you want the partitions aligned on a 4096 byte boundary. GParted will align them on a MiB boundary, which is more than adequate.
Windows restore points
The Windows installer is supposed to make system restore points but I found it started out with a broken configuration. So open System Properties, the System Protection tab, and check the “available drives” for any drives labelled “... (Missing)”. Turn off “system protection” (restore points) for the “missing” drives, then turn it on for the real C:.
Faster updates
After restoring Lenovo’s factory disk image, you must iterate installing Windows Updates and Lenovo Updates over and over until there aren’t any more to install. Fortunately this is faster on an SSD than an HDD. Save more time by having only one user account and no password so Windows reboot won’t stop for login. Also watch the taskbar for license dialogs that open up behind other windows but require your clicks to proceed.
Watch for stuck updates
Lenovo Update quietly gets stuck updating Intel WiFi & WiMax software. The fix is to download those installers from lenovo.com, run them, get an error message that it can’t install over the existing software, uninstall the WiFi & WiMax software, then run the installers again.
Restore from backup, or not?
At key points, I made system disk image backups of the SSD to the old HDD and tried restoring from a backup after the failed repartitioning experiment. But Windows Backup and Restore won’t restore a system image after booting from the destination drive’s recovery partition nor from the source drive’s recovery partition. Since my backup was on the HDD in the Ultradrive bay, I couldn’t boot from the Rescue & Recovery CD. The workaround was to make a bootable System Repair disk on a 512 MB USB key. Windows Backup and Restore then failed with another meaningless error, “The parameter is incorrect. Code: 0x80070057.” Apparently you have to remove the USB key right before starting the system restore operation but that yielded the error, "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found." I’m not sure if that’s a symptom of removing the USB key or yet another problem with Windows Backup and Restore. Maybe it can’t restore to resized partitions? Windows Backup and Restore failed and burned hours of my time.
Fix the annoying request on bootup?
After you install Windows, all its updates, and Samsung Magician, you can use Magician to adjust system settings for SSD performance. Then you’ll find that Magician needs permission to “make changes to this computer” on every boot. Samsung tech support explained that you can then remove Magician from the startup list via msconfig.
Optimizations
Recomputing the “Windows Experience Index” might make the OS recognize the boot drive as an SSD and disable defrag for it. This didn’t work for me, so be sure to unschedule defrag. Also use msconfig to remove Digital Line Detect from the startup list and turn on “No GUI boot” (no Windows splash screen). Also use power plans Advanced Settings to never turn off the “hard disk.”
ThinkPad
Thumbs up. Easy to replace the HDD with an SSD and move the HDD into an Ultradrive caddy. Sturdy. Easy to work on. Well documented. Hardware that I didn't want to replace.
Microsoft Windows 7
Thumbs down. Buggy, fragile, over complicated, inadequate error messages, painstaking to install, difficult and time consuming to administer, poorly documented, accumulates gunk over time that causes problems, failed backup software, even a fresh install has scary event log errors.
Lenovo forums & support pages
Very helpful. Sometimes it's good to use Use Google to search them e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alenovo.com+"over+provision"
Samsung 840 EVO SSD
Fine hardware. Some confusions around the Magician software. Great phone tech support. Web support doesn’t work.
References and more info
How To Geek, Lifehacker, Lifehacker, SSD Review, Newegg, Newegg, Anandtech, Storage Review.

I may have confused you: Lenovo provides two tools, 1) one makes DVDs that restore the original out-of-the-box factory image of the entire disk (i.e. System partition, C: + Q: partitions) and 2) Backup and Restore, which is the Lenovo user backup tool that does conventional full disk backups, i.e. with all user customizations, added programs and files. Since my system-generation-to-SSD saga hadn't created the the Q: partition correctly, my only alternative was to create a full up-t-date disk backup with the second Backup and Restore tool that include all the Windows + Lenovo updates, but didn't include extra programs and my user files. This fitted on 5 DVDs, which I will use if ever I reinstall the entire operating system.
Once you get above 100-150 GB of backup volume (I'm at 450 GB right now), the Lenovo Backup and Restore is very slow, so I use the much quicker Windows built-in Backup and Restore program to backup incrementally a system image and all files.

A600 Replacing SATA HDD with SATA SSD

I have reviewed the current knowledge base materials, but don't see one directly tied to my problem. Appreciate any help received.
My current HDD has been making a lot of noise lately, at least much more than I have heard in the past. It's a little over 5 years old. I bought an Intel 730 series 240G SSD, and have tried to use that drive as my primary drive, replacing the current one. I used Intel's cloning software, which took a while, but appeared to be successful. My problem is that the BIOS does not recognize the new drive. Looking in the BIOS, my SATA drive 0 now shows "None", and the screen at power-up fails with "No Boot Filename received". Is there an issue with the BIOS not recognizing newer SSD's? I've read other inputs saying that people have been successful in powering up via new SSDs, so I thought it could be done. Anyone have any thoughts? Appreciate it.

Thanks Caveman31 for your thoughts. I checked the BIOS, and this model has very limited BIOS options, which don't include any options for SATA control. There are probably 1/2 of the options in my Lenovo A600 BIOS, then in my generic PC (ASUS motherboard) I put together a couple years ago. It has a menu option for SATA control, located in the "Main" tab of the BIOS screen.
Unless there are some other options, or a way to get more control with this BIOS, I won't be able to select between AHCI or IDE regarding the SATA control. Do you know if that's the only way for me to replace my HDD with a SSD for this computer?
Thanks for your help!

Replacing the HDD on a Satellite M50-A-110

Hi,
I just bought a new Satellite M50-A-110 and I wanted to replace the HDD that came with the laptop with my existing SSD.
Unfortunately, there is no way (that I could find) to reach the HDD bay.
In the previous versions I could replace it with no hassle at all, but here the whole bottom panel is made out of a single piece of plastic that I couldn't remove.
Can somebody please help me out?
Is there a trick in removing the bottom panel that I'm not aware of?
Thank you for your assistance in advance and all the best,

Hi
Well, the HDD as well as the memory modules or battery are placed under the plastic cover at the bottom of the unit.
You will have to remove the whole plastic cover to get access to such parts.
From my knowledge there are 12 screws securing the bottom cover.
Then you could gently remove the logic lower from the upper by prying the edge of the lower from the right corner.

How do you replace the hdd in an emac

how do you replace the hdd in an emac

well you need to take of the back shell to do this you will need an alen key and philips screwdriver 1. take of the ram cover of the back of the computer after you unplug all cables and leads 2.take out all alen key screws around your emac lift up the case back about 3-4 inches of and take the little cable going into the powerbutten out than take of the cover fully and put aside 3. on the side whith the computer on (the bottem) and take out fillip screws holding the plate and unclip it and take it of to revele the computer componets 4.unplug the vidio cable (top left corner of logic bord) and all cables on the left bottem and the power cable on the screen side of the computer 5 unscrew the philips screws in the bracket for the fan and power port and move outthe fand and port out of the way 6. take out all screws holding the bracket for the computer part of the emac 7.grab the top of the plate and liftup and take the computer componetns out twords yourself becouse there is a plug at the back that gives the bord power and stuff 8.on the back of the computer components is the hard drive bay and undo the two screws holding the bay in and take out undo four screws and unplug the old hardrive and put in your new one and plug that in 9. put the emac back together in reverse how you pulled it apart makeing shore that the logic bord and powerbutten are pluged backin.

Qosmio X500-10W - Can I replace the HDD with another one?

Hello
I have a Qosmio X500-10W with two HDD Toshiba MK5055GSX 500GB 5400RPM 8MB ??SATA II but is one of hs so I wonder if I can be replaced by a more powerful style HDD 750GB 7200tr / min 16MB Toshiba course?
merci

Hey,
Your question is a little bit hard to understand but I think you want to replace the HDD with another (faster) model, right?
Well, thats no problem. HDDs with 7200rpm will work, they are a little bit louder but they are faster so if you need more performance no problem.
Also 750GB or more is no problem because SATA interface is not capacity limited. Theoretically 1TB or more should also work.
Anyway, you can buy the 750GB you mentioned it will work. :)

I have had to replace the HDD and need to reinstall OSX.

I have had to replace the HDD and need to reinstall OSX but cannot find disc that came with the unit, does anyone know where I can get them from or download if possible?
James

[email protected] wrote:
Just how do you do an internet recovery on a system that has a blank HDD with no operating system that the unit cannot boot from????
If your Mac came preinstalled with Lion or Mountain Lion after you install your new blank HDD, restart the Mac while pressing/holding the COMMAND+OPTION+R keys until you see a spinning globe. Make sure you have an Internet connection (WiFi or Ethernet). This will boot into Apple's Recovery HD servers and present you with the OS X Utilities Menu. From there you can select Disk Utility to format your new HDD and then reinstall Mac OS X for the OS that was preinstalled.
Internet Recovery doesn't care if you have an unformated HDD because it boots over the Internet to Apple's servers, not your HDD.

What the best way to go about replacing the HDD in u410 with an SSD

I've just been given a U410 for Christmas. My initial experience with the pc, bearing in mind that I've only had a it a few hours, is that it appears to be quite a good little laptop. Then again compared to my previous laptops it wouldn't take a lot to beat them.
Anyway what I would like to do is replace the standard 500gb HDD which came with the laptop, with a spare 240gb SSD that I acquired earlier in the year, while keeping the contents / os from the original drive.
My initial plan was to clone the drive to the ssd and then just swap them out. However this was not to be, as Acronis is not picking up the HDD and Clonezila will not complete the process as the drives are of different sizes.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to tackle what I initially thought was going to be a relatively simple process.
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I hadnt found this but sucessfully completed it with the todo backup utility and a few manual changes. I suppose you could also use the EasyGiG that comes with Cruicial SSD drives for cloning. (I chose a 250GB Cruicial M4)
See this posting for a great description of those partitions: Making Sense of drive partitions
Here's what I did.
1. First I copied the filed formt he 20GB partition that held all of 1 GB of data over to the WIndows partition, this is a stupid partition that only holds drivers.
2. I removed the stupid partition in the windows disk manager and expanded the Windows partition to use that data as well. You can do this after the clone as well but I didnt want the clone to create that partition.
3. I cloned the the SATA drive to the SSD drive using Todo Backup, it was very quick... Under 1/2 hour.
4. After cloning, the partitions on the SSD did not have the same attributes as the SATA drive did, which caused it to not be able to boot. The windows diskpart utility is your friend here.
5. open a command prompt and run: diskpart (i actually used 2 command prompts side by side for easy reference)
type 'list disk' to show your disks, 'select disk' to give focus to a disk, for mine disk 2 was the SATA drive and disk 3 was the SSD.
type 'list partition' -> 'select partition' to change which partition you are working on (there are 6 or 7) on the SATA.
type 'detail partition' to get the details of the partition you are working on.
6. Now heres how you make the changes, be sure to only make changes on the SSD at this point as the changes are immediate and could cause you problems if you modify the SATA drive you are running from.
get the details of each SATA partition and look for the line called ''Type". You need to note the string next to it that looks like: de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
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verify the change with "detail partition" and "list partition", rinse and repeat for each partition
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Good luck, no warranty on this procedure, it worked for me, YMMV.

Can I replace the HDD in my Satellite C70D-B -00P model with an SSD?

Hi
My question is in the subject line. If anyone has done this I would appreciate some tips.
regards Stuart

Generally speaking yes, you can do this but problem is that your notebook model doesn't have HDD cover at the bottom side.
To have full access to the HDD the bottom cover must be removed completely but it should be done by authorized service only.
Of course you can try to do it alone but Im afraid you may lose the warranty.
If possible contact nearest Toshiba service provider in your country, explain the situation and ask for help.

Replacing the Superdrive with an SSD or HD

I'm thinking of replacing my internal superdrive in my 17" MBP (2.3 i7 early 2011), as I very rarely use it, and could do with more internal portable space...
Can it be done?
Does anyone have any links to tips or guides?
Can anyone recommend specific tools/products I should use?
Can anyone recommend a casing/caddy that I can put the Superdrive into should I wish to use it externally?
Are there any compatibility issues I should be aware of? Particularly with communication with the OS...
Any other comments?
Thanks!

RedHavoc wrote:
Now this is the kinda response I was hoping for!
Thanks! A few questions...
Has having the second drive affected battery life at all?
Have you experienced any compatibility issues with start-up/mounting/unmounting/OS interaction/transfer rates etc?
Does the SuperDrive still read/write at it's original (or near enough) speed?
Cheers!
Since a SSD uses less power then a typical spinning HDD I have not noticed and real decrease in battery life.
But then I don't use any of my notebooks on battery that much. My MBP is is 5 weeks old and only has 14 charge cycles on it. My new Dell maybe 5-7 which I got about 1 week before I bought the MBP.
Not sure what you mean by your seconsd question. Are you talking aboth the Superdrive or the second HDD.
Neither with either.
I never unmount the HDD in the Superdrive bay. If the Superdrive is connect by USB cable once you eject the disc it unmounts and does not mount until you put a disc in.
Yes the Superdrive still reads and write the same as far as I can tell. Which IMHO is very SLOW. Even when it was in the case it was slow. Not sure how jyour is but mine was like watching paint dry.
Tthe only thing you can't do is Boot from it. So if for some reason I need to boot something that is on a CD or DVD I image it and then restore to a USB thumb drive. The one reason I did this is about the only time, in the last 3-4 years, that I use a CD/DVD drive is to make MP3s from music CDs or to burn utilities and info to give to someone.
As far as burning I haven't done that yet on the Mac so I don't know for sure but I don't think I'd have a problem.

IdeaPad U330 - Replacing the SSHD with an SSD = no bootable device found

Hi,
I have the original SSHD (Seagate 500 Gig) with Windows 8 that I would like to replace with :
Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series (256 Gig) with Windows 8 already installed and running on it.
When I put the Samsung SSD in my Lenovo Ideapad Ultrabook U330, BIOS tells me there is no bootable device found.
Can someone please explain this, I am SO desperate T_T
Thanks,
David
DETAILS :
Both Windows are Windows 8.1 64 bits
The SSD is working perfectly when placed in my Desktop computer
I installed Windows 8.1 on the SSD following this tutorial : http://superuser.com/questions/490476/how-can-i-install-windows-8-on-my-hdd-without-the-use-of-a-usb...
I did not provide the Windows 8 CD key on for SSD yet (but I have it)
I have tried rebooting with Safe boot disabled, Legacy settings, disabling Win8 OS optimization...no success
I have a bootable Windows 8.1 on an external HDD, I can boot on it everywhere...except on the Lenovo Ideapad and I have no clue why the disk is not supported here.
Usually, on the SSD, I plug the SATA cable but there is also another connector next to it. I noticed the SSHD in the Lenovo laptop didn't have any connector on it. Maybe my SSD requires to be connected using both slots (the SATA one, and the one next to it ?)
Should I update my BIOS ? Should I reformat the SSD ? Should I go back to the Bios Firm settings ?
I have been looking at some forum threads, but there doesn't seem to be any clear procedure to cope with this problem...
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From the BIOS, after disabling secure boot, selecting "Legacy" and "Legacy First" in the boot mode section allows me to boot on my USB HDD
Solved!
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Duckblade wrote:
Thanks for the tip, I will check that shortly. Is there any software that could help me do that ? I am also thinking of using Norton Ghost to clone the SSHD on my SSD, that has to work.
Cheers !
Just use disk management (winkey + x, select disk management). Select the leftmost portion of the disk drive and right click. Select properties. Select volumes. You will see the partition style of the disk that you have selected.

Satellite M110 - How to replace the HDD?

Have to replace my Hard drive as the original is f&%$ed.
I have tried to connect the original hard drive to my other laptop via a USB to Sata cable but it is not showing up. You can feel it spinning. I was able to do a HDD test on it and it failed in the Toshiba via a bootable CD. Since I can access the HDD to get to the recovery section, what is the best way to reinstall windows XP on it so I can use the original XP key on the bottom of the laptop. As I know that you usually have to have the right version or OEM copy of windows in order to use certain keys.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Hi
Your posting is a little bit confusing... Which HDD you using in which notebook now?
If you want to install the OS on your old/new HDD, therefore you cant use a SATA to USB converter. Therefore you have to use it as internal HDD.
Furthermore a Western Digital HDD would be suitable due SATA port. :)

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Hi, I've replaced my HDD to an SSD and wonder if I can download Mountain Lion without having to pay for it again?

Well?

Of course. Once you have purchased Mountain Lion, you can install it in all your Macs as many times as you want free of charge.
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