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    Samsung Series 7 upgrade to ssd prior to user setup

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by moriartii, Feb 8, 2013.

  1. moriartii

    moriartii Newbie

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    Hello-
    I am new to this forum and I have a question regarding upgrading my newly purchased Samsung Series 7 laptop. It comes with a 1tb 5400 rpm drive and 8gb express cache. I dont want the slow drive so am going to install a 840 SSD in its place.

    All this is going to be done prior to the first setup of the machine.

    My plane is to boot the machine into a PE, ghost off the HDD contents. Replace the HDD with the SSD and ghost the previously captured contents back on to the SSD via PE.

    Once that is complete boot the machine into OOBE and go from there.

    My question is, will this process have an issue with the express cache? From my reading it appears the BCD is installed to the express cache when using the HDD. Dont really need this since I am going to use an SSD.

    Thoughts?
    Cheers
    K
     
    moriartii, Feb 8, 2013
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  2. tilleroftheearth

    tilleroftheearth Wisdom listens quietly...

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    I vote that your proposed plan is a bad idea.

    Do a clean install and just install the drivers (like the express cache, for instance) and software that you'll need/use.


    Good luck.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Feb 8, 2013
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  3. moriartii

    moriartii Newbie

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    In my case i am not going to need the expresscache hence my question as whether the OOBE Samsung has created specifically looks for that during its install?
    Cheers
    K
     
    moriartii, Feb 8, 2013
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    Sorry, I meant 'without the express cache', of course.

    I'm sure that OOBE would include it by default as that is how the system shipped.

    Sorry for the confusion.
     
    tilleroftheearth, Feb 8, 2013
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