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    #92
    fletch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,390 ✭✭✭fletch


    Installing Windows 7 at the moment :)


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    #93
    fletch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,390 ✭✭✭fletch


    fletch wrote: »
    Installing Windows 7 at the moment :)
    Installed in under 15 mins :) ...reboots very fast now...applications seem to install much faster than before. Very happy :)


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    #94
    quarryman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,496 ✭✭✭quarryman


    Welease wrote: »
    Arrived this morning :) forgot to get a 2.5 inch holder (3.5 inch drive units), so will build it but only use it properly when its properly physically installed.

    Why? It's solid state, pretty hard to damage even if you fling around your PC case!


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    #95
    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    I got mine but can't use it as I've no way of installing windows yet. :(


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    #96
    paddyp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭paddyp


    GarIT wrote: »
    I got mine but can't use it as I've no way of installing windows yet. :(

    Can you not clone it with a live cd?

    Really regretting not buying this was trying to be good post christmas but on reflection I probably spend 30 mins of my working day listening to my hard drive thrashing starting programes so I'm only wasting my own time. If anyone else know for a decent bargain on 128MB+ let me know.


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    #97
    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    paddyp wrote: »
    Can you not clone it with a live cd?

    I've nothing to connect it with. I'm installing it in my ultrabook and taking out the old HDD. I think I'm going to try to ge an enclosure for the old drive tomorrow. I'd dying to get it installed though.


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    #98
    Welease
    Registered Users Posts: 3,834 ✭✭✭Welease


    quarryman wrote: »
    Why? It's solid state, pretty hard to damage even if you fling around your PC case!

    But if it does move, it could damage something else on the motherboard etc :) In the end I have built it (despite what I said) and it using the new drive which is sitting on the DVD drive :)

    I have actually come across a pain in the ass though during the build last night though :( The Win7 copy I have is an update version, so it needs a previous OS installed.. XP will not install using the drive as the main (or only disk), Win7 will install fine.. but you cannot register its code if it was the single OS install..

    Going to have to ring MS to get them to manually register my machine which is pain in the butt, as I rebuild a lot.


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    #99
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    you could just avail of the 30 dollars upgrade for win8


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    #100
    tk123
    Registered Users Posts: 14,032 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    Thanks again OP! My laptop is flying along! :D


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    #101
    Dcully
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 14,690 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dcully


    Still waiting on mine :(


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    #102
    MrScootch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭MrScootch


    Welease wrote: »
    But if it does move, it could damage something else on the motherboard etc :) In the end I have built it (despite what I said) and it using the new drive which is sitting on the DVD drive :)

    Mine is fixed in with electrical tape! It's fine...


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    #103
    craigmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭craigmcc


    What a brilliant bit of kit. Got mine yesterday. Bought a bit of drive cloning software EaseUS ToDo Backup which took the hard work of preparing the new SSD and away it went. System is much quicker to load and well well worth the upgrade. Thank you to the original poster for putting this BA up.


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    #104
    MMAGirl
    Registered Users Posts: 484 ✭✭MMAGirl


    Like getting a new laptop.


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