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    Lenovo Yoga 2 11 i3 SSD Upgrade Problem

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Meefle, Jan 8, 2015.

  1. Meefle

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    Hi,

    I have the Yoga 2 11in with the i3 processor that I believe was a BestBuy exclusive. I bought the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD to upgrade the HDD. I used EaseUS Todo Backup 8.0 to copy the HDD to the SSD but when I try to boot from the SSD it says no boot managers. I went into the BIOS and on the first page under the hard drive section it doesn't show the new SSD. I made sure the SATA connection is set to ACPI (might have the letters wrong but not the IDE version). My i3 version came with the seagate 500gb HDD and the cable fits fine with the new drive. I know some modules shipped with a WD version of the drive a cable that doesn't work with normal SATA drives. I have the latest BIOS installed and everything but I'm not sure where to go from here.

    When looking to upgrade the HD, I referred to the thread linked below which had some helpful info but nothing that I saw to help my problem.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/ide...apad-yoga-2-11-bay-trail-owners-thread-3.html
     
    Meefle, Jan 8, 2015
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  2. Meefle

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    Update

    I got it to boot from the SSD once. Not sure what I did, but was able to get into Windows and everything. But, after restarting the laptop, I get back to the same place. Seems to me the SSD isn't booting up fast enough and the BIOS isn't detecting it. I turned fastboot off in the BIOS and that didn't help. Any ideas?
     
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  3. Jason335

    Jason335 Notebook Consultant

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    Use Samsung's migration software to migrate over. Its very nice software.
     
    Jason335, Jan 8, 2015
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