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    About to purchase Envy 17-3070NR

    Discussion in 'HP' started by audibink, Mar 27, 2012.

  1. audibink

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    you dont need a caddy

    I took the primary hdd that came with the laptop and put it in bay2 with its caddy. (has foam around it and u have to stuff it with alot of force in bay2...)

    then I put two foam pieces on top and under the ssd and taped in in bay1 because laptop will only boot from bay1.
     
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    How about getting an OS back on the SSD. Guess I need to get a recovery disk if I want to use the copy of 7 that came on the laptop?
     
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    First, boot and make recovery disks (have used these twice already - so useful).

    Then install acronis true image trial and clone system to ssd. I got errors with windows 7 file system after boot but it might be something I did before I cloned so try cloning before you make any changes.

    After my clone failed, I put the recovery disks in and for some reason they worked even though its not the same hdd (now the ssd in bay1).

    I want to note though, the disks did not accept the ssd to do a recovery about a month later so I did a clean install (i broke the OS). Not sure if having the two drives in was the problem because I think they were in when I did the recovery the first time.

    So what I would do:
    1. make recovery disks with HP's software
    2. Clone HDD (I used an external hdd case - internal should work though)
    3. if it works - hurray. if not, recovery disks.
     
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    One thing you need to make sure you do, is to re-align your ssd after you clone your HDD over to your SSD... I messed with this for a whole week... I suggest EASEUS Partition master to copy it over, then Paragon alignment tool to realign the ssd... Before I realigned, I was getting about 20 seconds boot.. Now I'm getting a little over 12 seconds.. Should mention, I also have an intel 520 ssd (60 gig) :D
     
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    Whats the process on switching the OS to an SSD that you buy third party?
     
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    now that I am thinking about it. Do you really need that HP partition? If I move things over to a SSD im sure 10GB Plus will be the recovery partition. Might just be better off installing the SSD then OS from scratch.
     
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    now that I am thinking about it. Do you really need that HP partition? If I move things over to a SSD im sure 10GB Plus will be the recovery partition. Might just be better off installing the SSD then OS from scratch.
     
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    Clone it to ssd then delete when on ssd. Leave it there on the hdd just in case.
     
    ironman, Mar 28, 2012
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    do you guys see blu ray option? seems like they dropped it or sold out.
     
    tetrismaster, Mar 28, 2012
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