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    Migrated OS to SSD, a few questions

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Amerika, Jan 21, 2014.

  1. Amerika

    Amerika Notebook Guru

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    I'm on Y510p. I used the Samsung migration software to migrate everything from the HDD to SDD. Unplugged the HDD and booted without any issues from the SSD. Now I plugged the HDD back in. I want to use it as a storage disk.

    Few questions:
    1) Should I have enabled AHCI first before migrating to SSD? I plan to install Samsung SSD software on it.
    2) How do I go about formatting the HDD? It had 2 partitions, originally. Simple as right click in Windows Explorer and click Format? Which partition do I format first?

    Thanks in advance.
     
    Amerika, Jan 21, 2014
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  2. Varroa

    Varroa Notebook Consultant

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    To format an entire HDD you need to go into the computer management software (right click on Computer and select manage), from there you go to the disk manager and you can find the HDD and format the entire drive. Make sure to back up the lenovo partition or you will loose the ablilty to do a system restore in the future.
     
    Varroa, Jan 22, 2014
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    sweatyballz Notebook Consultant

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    The lenovo partition is the one with the 21 GB files right?

    Having those files is what makes it so the computer and reformat?
     
    sweatyballz, Jan 23, 2014
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