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    Buying an SSD, looking for advice on moving Windows 7 to the drive....

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Deception217, Feb 24, 2013.

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    Looking at buying an SSD for my M17x R4, but having recently installed Win 7 on this machine (from Win 8) I'm looking for some advice on moving the OS from my current HDD to the SSD (without installing from scratch).

    Is the process much trouble?

    Thanks for any feedback.
     
    Deception217, Feb 24, 2013
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    Hi, Check this out : http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ng-bootable-ssd-m17xr4-7500hd-32gb-msata.html

    You can use a disk partition utility to create an image of the existing drive on the new one, then just swap over the boot order.

    Good luck.
     
    MickyD1234, Feb 24, 2013
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    Deception217 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Cheers for that. Also, if I were tod another HDD (non SSD) what drivers would I need to install once I had fitted the new HDD?

    :D
     
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    You're welcome ;)

    Not sure I understand :confused:. You shouldn't need to install any drivers, windows will take care of it, but installing IRST (from dell drivers) after the install should correct any 'generic' disk drivers being used.
     
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    Yeah I just wondered if any drivers needed to be installed so that the alienware could work with the HDD. Thanks.
     
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    Nah, the existing one will be fine. It can get tricky if you are doing a fresh windows install with RAID enabled (you see a disk config screen before the alienhead logo at startup) but other than that, no problem.
     
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    Deception217, Feb 25, 2013
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    Should be fine, since they recommend it for the R4 you are good to go :D
     
    MickyD1234, Feb 25, 2013
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    Thanks, as always. Your advice is top :D
     
    Deception217, Feb 25, 2013
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