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    Alienware 17 ssd upgrade. please advise

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by ctoumbas, Jul 26, 2014.

  1. ctoumbas

    ctoumbas Newbie

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    Hello.
    I recently bought the Alienware 17 whitch it comes with 750Gb Hdd.
    I have also ordered from Amazon a new SSD hard drive whitch i would like to install it on my alienware.

    Is it whise to clone the disks??

    Someone tryed it?

    What should i be carefull?

    If i do recovery on the new ssd instead of cloning would be better?

    PLEASE ADVISE

    THANKS ALOT

    Christophoros Toumbas
     
    ctoumbas, Jul 26, 2014
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    J.Dre Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Make a recovery usb or dvd using AlienRespawn. It works fine.
     
    J.Dre, Jul 26, 2014
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    DDDenniZZZ Notebook Deity

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    Can always try a clean install if you prefer as well. But the alienware factory image is pretty clean anyways.
     
    DDDenniZZZ, Jul 26, 2014
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    jameslee3978 Notebook Consultant

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    ctoumbas Newbie

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    So if i do a recovery uab and run it on my ssd it will be like cloning the disks right?
     
    ctoumbas, Jul 27, 2014
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    MickyD1234 Notebook Prophet

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    Hi, not sure about that but it's quick enough to find out if it is going to work. I've used images for hardware swaps many times without a problem.

    The only problem I have seen with the AW is that respawn sometimes wants to create the same size partitions as the original - and won't install on a smaller drive. I'm not sure though if this is a USB recovery or a system partition recovery?

    It's designed for DR so does not have all the utilities cloning programs have. It might be fine but SSD's often come with a cloning utility that can resize partitions - just don't make any bios changes except the boot order and you should be fine.

    Of course prepare for a clean install and some time to update it all ;).

    Good luck.
     
    MickyD1234, Jul 27, 2014
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