Either way though I've learned a bit about working with the hardware and now I have a faster puter with the new drive and best of all no loss of data. Oddly enough I had just bought an IO magic sata drive enclosure and the original 1.5 tb hdd works just fine. The SDD installed the recovery discs in a fraction of the time it took the Western Dig 500gb hd to do it. I did have a secondary hard drive in the 1 slot, and now added the old Vostro 500gb drive to the 4 slot, 3 slot is the dvd. I ordered a 250 gb Samsung 850 Evo and just installed it. #HOW TO FORMAT SAMSUNG SSD 840 EVO 64 BIT#I had read somewhere online that the recovery discs would be insufficient so I went on ebay and bought the same Windows 7 home premium (fighting win 8 as long as I can) 64 bit disc but turns out the recovery discs worked perfectly fine. My computer is a few years old - Xps 8300, 8 gb ram - so I took an hdd out of my previously dead Dell Vostro 400 (motherboard failure 2011) and installed that into the 0 sata slot. So I removed it but for my work I need to run premiere pro, photoshop and lightroom. I had my OS hard drive fail about 12 days ago, at least it was giving me a code that ended 0142 and when it was looked up online it said hard drive failure. Your info was helpful as far as knowledge about what to do. No need to mess with smaller partitions for drivers, etc that Dell created. #HOW TO FORMAT SAMSUNG SSD 840 EVO INSTALL#Wait for a few weeks and make sure your SSD install is stable and then you can format just the C: partition on the HDD. My final advice: Do not format the original HDD yet. This is the point where I am with my newly purchased Dell XPS. #HOW TO FORMAT SAMSUNG SSD 840 EVO SOFTWARE#Once you're back up in windows, install and run the Samsung other software that allows you to optimize your windows installation to run on SSD. Reconnect your original drive and configure as secondary drive. You should now be able to boot successfully from your Samsung SSD. Change the SATA mode from "RAID" to "AHCI". The wordings might be different for your own DEll desktop. From BIOS, go to Advanced option, built-in controller settings and then SATA settings. Power up your PC and keep hitting F2 (or DEL) to take you to BIOS setup. So, only the SSD should be connected now. SATA 0 should be the cable where you disconnected the original HDD from. You need to disconnect original HDD from SATA 0. Make sure the cloning is successful to 100%. Run Samsung data migration software.Įnsure you select the C: partition on your original HDD as source, then SAMSUNG EVO as your target. 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. Use dell provided s/w or any other means you prefer. (system spec: xps 8700 special edition, 16GB RAm, 2TB HDD, 32GB MSATA, win 8.1).įirst.perform backup or create restore disks. I just completed SAMSUNG EVO 500GB on a dell XPS 8700, win 8.1. However, if you're trying to install a Samsung SSD and make it a boot drive, follow the instruction here.I made a post earlier on this: Definitely more information is needed in order to help you.
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