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    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by CC268, Jun 16, 2011.

  1. CC268

    CC268 Notebook Evangelist

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    I just installed my Crucial M4 128GB in my M14x and my stock 500 GB HD is in the optical drive now. The original HD has windows already on it, however I need to run windows on the SSD, how should I go about doing this??
     
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    Either do a drive copy (you need to have less than 128GB data on your 500GB old drive) or a fresh install to your SSD.

    I would recommend the latter.


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    CC268 Notebook Evangelist

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    Ok, well how do install windows on my SSD if I dont have an optical drive anymore (I have a disk that came with the M14x for windows). Do I delete windows off the 500GB HD? Right now it boots up just fine using the HD but how do I get it to run on the SSD??
     
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    CC268 Notebook Evangelist

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    I really need to get this up and running...anyone?
     
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    CC268 Notebook Evangelist

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    You could do that also. Maybe much easier for you
     
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    CC268 Notebook Evangelist

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    its still a major pain in the , i could do it the way you showed me in the post, but I dont know where to go, so much info on that post
     
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    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    I invested in a 35$ USB DVD drive.. use it for all my computers.
     
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    just installed the optical drive downloading windows right now, so do i uninstall windows off of the 500gb??
     
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    CC268 Notebook Evangelist

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    I installed windows on my Crucial M4 128GB on my M14x and it went smoothly, however I can't connect to internet, my screen resolution maxes out at 1028x768 and I have no idea what the heck is going on, also the alienware windows startup screen is gone, its just normal windows one, if anyone is available on google chat that would be greatly appreciated.
     
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    I installed windows on my Crucial M4 128GB on my M14x and it went smoothly, however I can't connect to internet, my screen resolution maxes out at 1028x768 and I have no idea what the heck is going on, also the alienware windows startup screen is gone, its just normal windows one, if anyone is available on google chat that would be greatly appreciated.
     
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  13. richierichdollar

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    yes you can uninstall windows off the 500gb after you get everything running on the ssd. Remember to get you pictures,music etc off of the 500gb before you erase it.
     
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  14. pukemon

    pukemon are you unplugged?

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    drivers. and did you make recovery discs? that probably would've saved some headaches. and you probably should've kept this in your other thread. no need to make threads for every single related problem you have.
     
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    CC268 Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't have internet and I can't download drivers. With out it. I made a backup on my external hard drive and I reinstalled my other harddrive in the secondary bay but it wont recognize it so I have no idea what to do
     
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    Ok but read the previous thread I can't get it working
     
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  17. pukemon

    pukemon are you unplugged?

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    recovery discs from your hdd. put your hdd and optical back and make a recovery disc. or ^^^ do that and download drivers onto a flash drive or something. at least get the network driver on something external then you should be able to get the rest from asus website.
     
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    Ok I will just go back to stock and make recovery disks then I can reinstall the ssd and run the disks
     
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