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    SSD and Recovery Question

    Discussion in 'HP' started by pongalong, Apr 29, 2011.

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    pongalong Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all, I just purchased an SSD and I'm looking for a simple solution into making it my main drive. I've already installed the hardware and moved my old HDD to the optical bay's spot.

    On my HDD I have the HP Recovery Partition (which I believe is the same as the recovery discs). My question is can I run the recovery (pressing F11 at boot) and have it install to the SSD, leaving my old drive as is? I booted into the menu and when I select recovery it warns me that it's about to wipe all data. At that point I get a little worried because it hasn't asked me which drive I want to wipe and install to.

    Any help would be appreciated. Also I noticed that Windows 7 doesn't show my SSD (intel 510 120gb) in My Computer. I can see it under Disk Management, does the drive just need to be formatted?
     
    pongalong, Apr 29, 2011
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    pongalong Notebook Consultant

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    Just FYI, recovery never asks for the target drive or previous Windows installation. To be safe I took the laptop apart again, pulled my old HDD out of the optical bay slot and ran recovery from USB just to be safe.

    SSD is a fantastic upgrade. Extremely noticeable performance increase.
     
    pongalong, Apr 30, 2011
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