Installing Samsung 840 Pro into a Lenovo Y510p

I purchased a Lenovo Y510p recently with Windows 8 pre-installed along with a Samsung 840 Pro 128gb SSD. I did exactly everything stated in this site Methodology to create Recovery Media and reload a Lenovo Think system with Microsoft Windows 8 preload , but it always states that there was a problem restarting my laptop.

 

Try clean install method.

 

What do you mean by that?

 

You get somewhere OS iso image, put it on flash drive or DVD and installit on your laptop. Then install all drivers and programs you want.

Or use some other free clone software. Norton Ghost may be one of them or use support for your SSD and download data migration tool http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/MZ-7PD128BW

 

i have a different problem with my new samsung pro, the old HD is 500 GB + but the new ssd is 256 , its all i nedd.

the software wont make the clone cause the old HD is too big, any ideas?

somebody said i can change the size of the old HD, what does that mean reducing the size of Cpartition, how is that done?

 

Which OS? If you have Windows 7 or newer you can do it in Windows, providing you have the available space to shrink it. Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management > select the drive > right click on partition > Shrink Volume

 

hi its win8 running on standard 5400rpm ssd. its a new laptop

i plan to clone it and move it over to SSD, so when you say shrink volume, its a 500GB and i want to transfer to 256gb ssd.

what should i set the shrink to and how do i fix it after install.

there is less then 50 GB of data on the new laptop so getting it over to 256 ssd will be no problem at all.

a little more detail would really help me out, im really a fish out of water with this stuff

 

Shrink it to the same size as your ssd so it will align correctly. If you plan to reuse your hdd then just undo the process to utilize the entire hdd. Try acronis to clone your hdd

 

Hi:

Any advice to do this, I got the Serial with Belarc Advisor, but I can't seem to boot from an USB with Windows 8 on it, it's telling me I cant boot from USB. Any advice on how I can do it?

 

You made the USB bootable? If you did and still couldn't do the install, you may need to burn the ISO to DVD. I just did a clean install of Windows 7 that wouldn't go through USB and it did with a DVD on an eMachines.

Belarc Advisor, good program.:thumbsup:

 

The Samsung Data Migration utility is smart enough to clone files over to the new SSD without a partition shrink, it doesn't even use sector by sector cloning. As long as your files on the HDD totals to an amount that's less than the total capacity of the SSD. It's the best utility you can use with a Samsung drive.

On the point the OP made regarding installing the OS via the OS disk, a number of factory reset images with various OEMs *MUST* detect that the new drive has approximately the same capacity as those of the original one or it may return you errors. If you decide that a clean install (download the .iso from Microsoft) works best for you, backup the driver folder to an external disk, install the .iso with a USB flash drive.

Don't ever use Norton for cloning. It's very error prone and doesn't work as expected.