Want to install SSD and make it the main drive
Hello, I just purchased my Lenovo IdeaCenter H530 Desktop and straight away installed a GT640 video card. Everything seems good and I'm waiting to install a SSD. I would like to run windows 8.1 from the SSD as the primary drive, and use the 1TB HD as a storage drive for files etc.
How should I install the SSD, which BIOS settings should I change, and how can I get windows transferred from the 1TB HD to the SSD, and make sure that windows boots from the SSD? Is there an online tutorial for this? Or could someone talk me through this? Thanks!
hi jenny0101,
Welcome to Lenovo Community Forums!
The only concern here is transferring the Windows OS to the SSD drive and everything else remains as it is now.
You can Try Paragon Backup & Recovery 12 Home
I can say
Clone the Drive to your SSD Replace the HDD with your SSD using the same connection and it should work.
You can check this post by neokenchi
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/IdeaPad-Y-U-V-Z-and-P-series/Unable-to-Migrate-Windows-8-to-an-mSSD-y500...
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