Ssd as system disk

I'm trying to add an 120 GB OCZ SSD to my envy d7 7223cl with a 600GB HD. I can not get the system copied so that it will boot from the SSD in the first position. This is true whether or not HD is in the 2nd position. 120GB is plenty for the OS (win 8.1) but it doesn't seem to work even when the copy to the smaller c: gets all the data.

Have you looked at this Technical White Papaer?
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02876562.pdf
Although I work for HP, my post's and replies are my own opinion. I am not an official HP spokesperson.
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SSD as system disk while users folder + data on HDD

Hey there, I want to install SSD in my Mac Pro and since its only 120GB - use it only for system and Apps. While all my user data (photos, movies, music random files) I want to store on my HDD. Is it possible to do it that way, so the system knows where it should put Apps and where downloaded content and all the other stuff should go?

~/Library is hidden unless you unhide. It HAS to exist where user accounts are.
The link is not what you want, it is hybrid SSD Fusion HDD setup.
I leave ~/Library where it is, right, and don't worry and just link to other hard drive - after playing and trying to move user account to another drive, I swap boot drives a lot and it was easier.
NetInfo and later Accounts control panel and now is it "Users"? but it is easy for anyone to point to another disk drive.
How to Move the Home Folder in OS X – and Why ~ Chris ...
chris.pirillo.com/how-to-move-the-home-folder-in-os-x-and-why
I went from 120GB SSD (and that after trying to use 40GB) to 250GB and eventually 500GB SSD
- next stop SSD blade M.2
Samsung XP941 M.2 80mm PCIe 2.0 x4
Works with most Z97 and X99 motherboards and Mac Pro.
Not compatible with the MacBook Air or Retina MacBook Pro

My Windows 7 Professional desktop system hard disk got corrupted and I took the opportunity to install an SSD for a new system disk and reinstall Windows. The system is up and running on the SSD, with my old system disk now used for storage as it is stil

My Windows 7 Professional desktop system hard disk got corrupted and I took the opportunity to install an SSD for a new system disk and reinstall Windows. The system is up and running on the SSD, with my old system disk now used for storage as it is still readable. The only Adobe product I have reinstalled so far is Reader XI but I would like to reinstall Elements 8 and Acrobat 9 without taking up more licences as both are also installed on my laptop. Can you point me to the best way to do this? - Thanks

If you have the two allotted activations already and one was lost on the hard drive that failed then you need to contact Adobe Support thru chat and ask them to reset your activations.
For the link below click the Still Need Help? option in the blue area at the bottom and choose the chat option...
Serial number and activation chat support (non-CC)
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/service1.html ( http://adobe.ly/1aYjbSC )

I want to migrate my system disk to a new, larger, SSD.

I want to migrate my windows 7 system disk to a new, larger, SSD. My Photoshop CS5 is on the old system disk. Can I clone the old SSD to the new one and the just deactivate the CS5 install on the old SSD and activate it on the new, cloned, SSD?
I'd like this to be as painless as possible so I was going to use Acronis. My recent experience with an apple product has convinced me that "brainless" is the new modality in software......
Thanks,
Grover

I think Acronis will easily let you achieve your goal.
Theoretically you shouldn't need to deactivate/reactivate, but I would do it anyway - just to be on the safe side.

? Cloned System disk to new Samsung SSD. Before cloning PSE 12 I logged out. Adobe ID correct. PSE 12 listed.

? Cloned System disk to new Samsung SSD. Before cloning PSE 12 I logged out. Adobe ID correct. PSE 12 listed. Starting PSE 12 request Log in, But this does not work. Giving E-Mail and Password results in never ending turning whel. No activation of porduct no error information.

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ITunes and Solid State (System) Disks - SSD's

I suspect there are very few of you out there (if any) that own a SSD that you are using as a System Disk. The reason I mention this is that all the lower cost MLC versions of the products have been found to have problems with writing many small records in a short space of time and in some cases cause an effect called stuttering (simply Google "stutter ssd"). I have discovered that iTunes is hurt severely by this problem to the extent that often the system will freeze for 30 seconds to a minute during syncs or downloads. One of the manufacturers has a work-around but for the moment it's probably wise to sit back and wait for the next generation products to appear on the market before reaching into your pocket.
On the positive side, a working SSD is fantastic for a home theatre system. You don't hear a thing!
Chris H

Pete Marshall says:
SSD's are great for the OS and apps. They may not be so good for the catalog itself as write speeds are not good. If I was you I would get a small SSD to use as the boot drive and put the catalog and files on seprate fast traditional hard drives.
Write and read speed of currently available SSDs blow away hard disk drives in any configuration. Look here:
http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/high_end_drives.html
SSDs are more expensive per GB than HDDs, but you don't need a large 1TB+ drive to increase system performance! I work with Intel who is one of the top SSD manufacturers and R&D companies. Intel is working with Micron on joint program to reduce cost of SSDs. Intel just announced their new SSD 510 series:
Intel SSD 510 Specification
SATA 6Gb/s Sustained Bandwidth Performance
(Iometer* Queue Depth 32)
— 250 GB:
Sequential Read: Up to 500 MB/s
Sequential Write: Up to 315 MB/s
— 120 GB:
Sequential Read: Up to 450 MB/s
Sequential Write: Up to 210 MB/s
Compared to a high performance HDD:
WD Caviar Black
Samsung HD103UJ
HDTach
Burst (MB/s)
232.6
204.5
Random Access (ms)
12.1
13.7
Average Read (MB/s)
89.5
96.8
Average Write (MB/s)
79.9
84.4
I have no experience running LR on SSD, but putting your LR catalog, RAW cache, and preview files on an SSD should provide a real performance boost.

Can I create a system disk on one machine, and swap it into another?

I just reinstalled the Win 7 Pro operating system, using lenovo install disks, on my 3820/K1000m W530. I may end up getting a 3840QM/K2000M W530, and wanted to know if I can just swap the disk I just made into the new machine, this avoiding the issue of re-creating the disk. I have Windows Office 2013 on the thing. I was hoping to
1) Deactivate Windows 2013 (and adobe creative suite) on the source machine from the source disk.
2) Physically Install a clean Samsung 850 Pro 500 into the new target machine.
3) Put the source disk in a usb-based disk case and attach it to the target machine.
4) Boot to a diskcopy program from the optical drive on the target machine.
5) Copy the system disk, with all my ancillary programs and such, onto the target machine
6) Restore the source disk to the source machine.
7) Boot the target machine and (here's what I'm hoping) have the target machine validate/activate windows 7
8) reactivate office on the target machine, and reinstall the Adobe license
9) reactivate office on the source machine
I would then have two functional machines, a main (target) and a spare.
Will this work? Or must I install win 7 from scratch?
IF this is not possible, do the W530 Bioses have a windows s/n that is version specific? In other words, if I can dig up Windows Ultimate (I'd like to get bitlocker), can I install that instead of pro?
Thanks!
Jim
Two W530s, i7-3820QM, 2.7Ghz, 500Gb Samsung 850 Pro, 1920x1080, nVidia K2000m/100m, Win 7 Pro
T510, M540, 2.53Ghz, 1Tb hybrid drive, Win 7 Pro
Two T61ps, T9500/T9300, 2.6GHz, 8Gb RAM, 256Gb Samsung 840 Evo, 1900x1200, nVidia 256Mb FX 570m, Win 7 Pro/Ultimate

I have to disagree with you, DSperber. First of all Microsoft doesn't care if you install Windows, as long as you have a valid COA and your version matches that COA. You can actually download the Windows 7 ISOs for the Windows version you need! I understand that they legally require a COA on each Win machine sold, to allow folks to rebuild blown systems. This is discussed on the microsoft Windows 7 forum:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/where-can-i-download-wind...
You can download the ISO, load it, and then use the COA key to validate. Apparently while Microsoft requires this printed COA, they prefer it to be used only in extreme cases, as when the oem SLP does not work. I take this to mean that Microsoft WANTS you to install the OEM software, rather than bother them. Because if you use the printed COA activation key, you have to contact MS to validate it.
Some more information is here: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_install/what-is-different-between...
The point is, the COA sticker on the computer vouches that you are entitled to have a valid Windows license on that computer. It may be that Lenovo doesn't want you to use the recovery disks from another computer. If so, your note would seem to imply that Lenovo is actually more restrictive about their software than Microsoft!
I understand that using the recovery disks from another computer may seem to deprive Lenovo of the 50 bucks they get when you order them. I wish I could have saved that money several times. But hey, these disks aren't customized. You call in with your model number and serial number, and Lenovo sends out recovery disks with the approprate version of windows originally sold with the machine (sorry, Vista customers!), with the OEM SLP. So its not a licensing issue, it's a (very small) revenue issue. And every time someone is able to resurrect their Lenovo machine without a hassle and without that $50, it's worth far, far more in terms of good will. Perhaps saving that 50 bucks is what pushes me over the edge to buy a new W541 or W550!
Jim
I currently have:
2 T61ps, both Pennryn, both 8Gb Crucial RAM, both 1Tb hybrid drives, T9500 and
1 T510, (I forget the specs)
2 W530s, both i7-8420QM, 16Gb and 8Gb, both Samsung 850 Pro 256Gb SSDs, K1000m and K2000m, with 1080p screens.
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Kernel_data_inpage_error & non-system disk error but everything running OK for a while

Hi,
can someone please help me out since I have a deadline in coming up and need my laptop to work properly!
I have windows 7 64bit running on a HP ProBook 6550b. My PC runs fine for about an hour, after an hour the screen freezes for 10 seconds and then I get the KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR. He reboots and then I get the message 'Non-system disk or disk error'
Then I just shut down my PC and start it back up and everything works perfectly fine again for about 45 minutes. Then again the same problem.
I have tried multiple things. I executed a chkdsk /f /r This did find some problems. I tried and followed some instructions about changing the paging file settings. I ran a memtest. No errors with the memtest.
Finally I went in the BIOS and I did a HP harddrive test. This one failed almost immediately but I can just close the BIOS and start my PC and windows runs fine.
What can I do to resolve this problem other then buying a new harddrive. (I intend to buy a new laptop anyways in couple of months after I have passed my deadline and test period has finished. But for short term I really needs this to work.)
Many thanks!!
Johan
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Just in case someone else encouters this.
The problem was due to my SSD M4 hard drive. There was a problem with the firmware causing hourly crashes after the disk has been in use for more then +-5200 hours. Upgrading the firmware fixed this for me.

Windows 7 Backup - System image includes non system disk

Hi,
I am trying out windows 7 backup, hoping at last that I won't need a 3rd party backup solution. So far so bad!
My first problem is how ridicilously slow the backup is, but this has been discussed at length elsewhere. My second problem is the backup stalls when I try to backup a folder which I know has got various bits of malware in. I am an IT pro and use the files in this folder for testing purposes. OK fair enough I guess, although I think the backup should handle this event a bit more elegantly. So I've zipped and password protected the offending files to hide them from the AV (security essentials by the way)
The final problem which I just can't understand is that when I try to create an image of my system drive, backup wants to add my D drive (which is purely a data drive) to the image. My D drive is huge and I don't want to include it in a system image. I keep my system drive lean and mean for exactly this purpose but now I can't back it up because the total size of C and D drives combined exceed the capacity of my backup drive.
I know for a fact that the D drive has no consequence to the system boooting or operating, I have disconnected it and windows boots up just fine. In computer management the D Drive is not showing up as a system drive, so why does windows think it is? And why isn't there a power user mode wher I can choose exactly what I want in a system image, I understand you're trying to make windows easy to use for the average Joe, but this lack of functionality and in depth control feels more like a Mac than windows.... and I hate macs.
So can anyone shed any light as to why my D drive is being flagged as a system disk, otherwise it's back to 3rd party solutions... AGAIN
Thanks

There is a solution.
Microsoft usually have stuff that is not documented. For example Windows server 2008 comes with a command line utility that will allow the backup (in this case a shadow copy) of any drive you wish to a backup target. The program is wbadmin.exe.
According to some Microsoft sources it doesn't exists on Windows 7 but let me assure you that it does; I use it all the time, specifically to get round the problems you have described in your posts.
I build VHD images and test them until I am happy with them and then I back them up as a system image and then rewrite them on to a system drive. I can only do this with wbadmin.exe
To backup your c: to your d: (or what ever other drive you have space on in this case we will use d:)
- Open a command prompt as Administrator
- Run the following command:
Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:d: -include:c: -quiet
- You should get output something like this:
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.
Retrieving volume information...
This will back up volume System(C:) to D:.
The backup operation to D: is starting.
Creating a shadow copy of the volumes specified for backup...
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (1%).
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (29%).
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (57%).
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (79%).
Creating a backup of volume System(C:), copied (98%).
The backup of volume System(C:) successfully completed.
The backup operation successfully completed.
Summary of the backup operation:
The backup of volume System(C:) successfully completed.
That should complete the backup. It should create a WindowsImageBackup folder in the dirve you backed up to.
Restore as normal.
There is one small but very important caveat: If you have any system files or programs that are linked to the system drive on your d: drive or elsewhere you may find that when you restore your system the links are broken. it should not happen if you
have not made any changes before you restore but if you are like me who use the d: to store the bulk of the program files and just use the c: to store the system OS (on SSD... the need for speed! :) ) then you need to be careful... be warned!!
That's all folks!
Bick

Two system disks, system will not boot.

I installed a "second" system on a SSD drive I just put in a mac pro. My plan was to use the stratup utility to choose the SSD as the system disk. However, upon startup, I am getting only a white screen with the twirling circle. It is as if the mac pro doesn't know which system to boot from.
How can I get to the startup disk utility if I can not get anything to boot?

reboot and hold option at the chime. this will boot you into startup disk manager where you can choose which disk to start from.

How can I re-size a partition that shares a drive with the system 'disk'?

Some time ago, I partitioned my Bay 1 drive (640GB) to two partitions, of equal size. Now, I find that on the system 'disk' partition, there is a lot of space I don't really need, and could use in the other partition. I find that I can shrink the system partition, but can't expand the second partition to use the extra space. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks

I would keep that for just the system and not use 2nd partition for "active" data - move the other partition (or the system) to another drive.
An SSD system for instance. $165 Corsair Force GT 120GB
Then devote 640GB to what you want. Or as a system backup etc and pick up a 1TB WD Black ($139) which really are a nice performance drive now from what they had even 2 yrs ago.

Restoring A Win7 system disk

I am beaten up by this issue which is simple: I've outgrown my Win 7 system disk and have a physical replacement. My entire system is SSD. I should have a backup and the simple issue is to restore it to the new disk. But no...Restore is so dumb that it will
only restore a system disk to C:
Ignore this image-the delete doesn't work.
The image below is good:
I'd like to restore the system I'm running to E:. But I want it to be C:. MS restore will not do it. Because there is already a C:
on the Win7 bootable disk. So how to restore the back up to the new disk as C:?
"MODERN PROGRAMMING is deficient in elementary ways BECAUSE of problems INTRODUCED by MODERN PROGRAMMING." Me

You need to do this:
Disconnect the existing System disk.
Connect the replacement disk.
Connect the disk containing the image file.
Boot the machine with your Windows Repair CD into Repair Mode.
Perform the image restore.

OCZ Vertex3 for laptop system disk - or not

I'll soon get a new laptop and I plan to change the original 750 GB system disk to OCZ Vertex 3 120GB.
I'm going use the laptop for Production Premium CS5.5 and InDesign CS5.5 when I travel.
Is the 120 GB size enough for system disk and Adobe programs?
I'll buy another 750 GB and make external USB3 (R)aid0 set for material and projects.
I have noticed here some concerns about OCZ SSDs, is there any reason to avoid that brand?
I just have one spare OCZ waiting to get to the real work....
pena

Thank you all for your advices. I decided not to gamble with my OCZ. I read some firmware update pages and that looked so scary that I decided just to let it be.
I just got my new laptop, MSI GT683 and it has WD Scorpio Black 750GB as a system disk with Win7 Home 64 preinstalled. So I keep it and just fill all the four memory slots with
4 GB DIMMS. Also I add another HDD inside the chassis - yes it has an empty place for another Sata HDD.
Maybe later when I have more time and money I'll upgrade the system disk to SSD with Win7 Pro 64 and change the 4GB DIMMs to 8G ones.
One more thing about my OCZ:
This new laptop has also eSata connector. I have HDD docking station with eSata and USB2 connectors. I took my OCZ Vertex3 disk and connected the docking station with eSata to laptop.
A saw the normal brief info-flash "OCZ Vertex3.." but then nothing. The disk did not come in sight. I changed to USB2 connector, same problem.
Then I connected the docking station to my desktop PC, immediately the disk appeared.
Something is really up...
Maybe SSD with Marvell controller is the way to go, thanks Felix.
pena

Thinkpad T440s BIOS update via PXE fails with "invalid system disk"

Hi,
I'm trying to boot via PXE to the BIOS 2.24 update ISO image because the T440s comes without a DVD drive. The Thinkpads are running RHEL 6.5 workstation installed. I'm using syslinux 6.02 and the following menu entry:
label lenovo_t440s
    menu label Lenovo Thinkpad T440s BIOS 2.24 Update
    kernel memdisk
    append initrd=lenovo/t440s/gjuj11us.iso iso
The ISO gets loaded via TFTP and seems to boot, but then an error message appears:
Loading boot sector... booting...
Lenovo Group Limited
Invalid system disk
Replace the disk, and then press any key.
The Thinkpads come with the following SSD drive: SAMSUNG MZ7TD256HAFV-000L9.
Anyone had luck with updating BIOS via PXE boot?
We also have Thinkpads T430s. There the BIOS update ISO image loads, displays the menu, but when one presses "update firmware" then it freezes.
Regards,
Bernd

Same behaviour when I try without PXE and load memdisk and ISO file directly via GRUB using this entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf:
title ThinkPad BIOS Update
root (hd0,1)
kernel /memdisk iso
initrd /gjuj11us.iso

System Image Restore Fails "No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found"

Greetings
                                    - Our critical server image backup Fails on one
server -
Two 2008 R2 servers. Both do a nightly "Windows Server Backup" of Bare Metal Recovery, System State, C:, System Reserved partition, to another storage hard drive on the same machine as the source. Active Directory is on the C: The much larger D: data
partition on each source hard drive is not included.
Test recovery by disconnecting 500G System drive, booting from 2008R2 Install DVD, recovering to a new 500G SATA hard drive.
Server A good.
Server B fails. It finds the backed-up image, & then we can select the date we want. As soon as the image restore is beginning and the timeline appears, it bombs with "The system image restore failed. No disk that can be used for recovering the system
disk can be found." There is a wordy Details message but none of it seems relevant (we are not using USB etc).
At some point after this, in one (or two?) of the scenarios below, (I forget exactly where) we also got :
"The system image restore failed. (0x80042403)"
The destination drive is Not "Excluded".
Used   diskpart clean   to remove volumes from destination drive. Recovery still errored.
Tried a second restore-to drive, same make/model Seagate ST3500418AS, fails.
Tried the earliest dated B image rather than the most recent, fail.
The Server B backups show as "Success" each night.
Copied image from B to the same storage drive on A where the A backup image is kept, and used the A hardware to attempt restore. Now only the latest backup date is available (as would occur normally if we had originally saved the backup to a network location).
Restore still fails.         It looks like its to do with the image rather than with the hardware.
Tried unticking "automatically check and update disk error info", still fail.
Server A SRP 100MB C: 50.6GB on Seagate ST3500418AS 465.76GB Microsoft driver 6.1.7600.16385   write cache off
Server B SRP 100MB C: 102GB on Seagate ST3500418AS 465.76GB Microsoft driver 6.1.7600.16385   write cache off
Restore-to hard drive is also Seagate ST3500418AS.
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7repair/thread/e855ee43-186d-4200-a032-23d214d3d524      Some people report success after diskpart clean, but not us.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/31595afd-396f-4084-b5fc-f80b6f40dbeb
"If your destination disk has a lower capacity than the source disk, you need to go into the disk manager and shrink each partition on the source disk before restoring." Doesnt apply here.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=439&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=4
for 0x80042403 says "The solution is really quite simple: the destination drive is of a lower capacity than the image's source drive." I cant see that here.
Thank you so much.

Hello,
1. While recovering the OS to the new Hard disk, please don't keep the original boot disk attached to the System. There is a Disk signature for each hard disk. The signature will collide if the original boot disk signature is assigned to the new disk.
You may attach the older disk after recovering the OS. If you want to recover data to the older disk then they should be attached as they were during backup.
2. Make sure that the new boot disk is attached as the First Boot disk in hardware (IDE/SATA port 0/master) and is the first disk in boot order priority.
3. In Windows Recovery Env (WinRE) check the Boot disk using: Cmd prompt -> Diskpart.exe -> Select Disk = System. This will show the disk where OS restore will be attempted. If the disk is different than the intended 2 TB disk then swap the disks in
correct order in the hardware.
4. Please make sure that the OS is always recovered to the System disk. (Due to an issue: BMR might recover the OS to some other disk if System disk is small in size. Here the OS won't boot. If you belive this is the case, then you should attach the
bigger sized disk as System disk and/or exclude other disks from recovery). Disk exclusion is provided in System Image Restore/Complete PC Restore UI/cmdline.
5. Make sure that Number and Size of disks during restore match the backup config. Apart from boot volumes, some other volumes are also considered critical if there are services/roles installed on them. These disks will be marked critical for recovery and
should be present with minimum size requirement.
6. Some other requirements are discussed in following newsgroup threads:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/871a0216-fbaf-4a0c-83aa-1e02ae90dbe4
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/9a082b90-bd7c-46f8-9eb3-9581f9d5efdd
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/thread/11d8c552-a841-49ac-ab2e-445e6f95e704
Regards,
Vikas Ranjan [MSFT]
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