Don't touch original HDD that came with computer.īoot your PC back up on the original HDD. Shutdown the PC, connect the 500GB SSD in any open sata connector with a sata III cable. Here's how I did it.įirst.perform backup or create restore disks. I just completed SAMSUNG EVO 500GB on a dell XPS 8700, win 8.1. I will try and follow this up with Samsung, but cannot fnd a way to get support from them yet ! If I try to rerun the Samsung Data Migration software - it now selects the partitions C: and N: (as mentioned above) but say they are on the Samsung SSD and the target disc is blank, with a commpent saying please select Samsung SSD ! could I wipe the original RAID drive (and create two 1 TB drive) and then copy the active OS and recovery partitions to the SSD and expect the system to boot ? I have saved ISO images of the OS and Recovery partitions - will these still work if re installed onto a different disc ? - i.e. How do I get the operating system to boot from the SSD ? - I can probably do this by re installing Windows, which at present I do not want to do as I have upgraded to Windows Ultimate (from the original Home version) and no longer have the upgrade disc.ĭo I have to put the SSD as disc 1 in order to boot from it ?

I initially used the Data Migration and configuration software that comes with the Samsung SSD to clone my original c: drive - however, although a Recovery partition has been copied to the SSD, the NTFS primary still resides on he original c: drive - so I have the following active partitions (as shown my Macrium Reflect) :ĭisc 1 (Original RAID disc) - NTFS primary with Win 7 OS (C: 254 GB), plus other logical partitions containing dataĭisc 2 (Original RAID disc) - NTFS primary with some installed programsĭisc 3 (New Samsung SSD - 500 GB) - with Active Recovery partition (N: 9.6 GB) plus a NTFS primary partition with a copy of the OSĪlthough I have specified in the BIOS to boot from the Samsung SSD, the machine is still booting from the original hard drive. I have added a Samsung SSD and wish to use this as a boot disc and repository for my operating system (Windows 7), all other data and files will reside on the original RAID disc. My original PC is a DellXPS 8100, which cam equipped with dual 1 TB drives, configured as a single RAID disk of 1800 MB, plus a second small volume.

I would greatly appreciate any help or comments anyone can give me on the following difficulty.

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