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Upgrading a brand new Laptop with a new SSD?

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  • 22-04-2015 10:37pm
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    B_Sharp
    Registered Users Posts: 211 ✭✭


    I'm after buying a Lenovo Y50 laptop and a Samsung 850 EVO SSD to put in said laptop. Now, I have no experience of tinkering with laptops other than cleaning the fan so I'm looking for some advice here.

    My main concern is migrating Windows onto my new SSD, the Lenovo has no optical drive. Everyone seems to have a different answer online regarding how you do it. My main question is this:

    What would happen if I replace the Hard Drive with the SSD before even booting the laptop up for the 1st time? Will it start up grand or is there some data already on the Hard Drive that is essential to the laptop starting correctly first time?

    Cheers in advance.
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    Digital Solitude
    Registered Users Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭Digital Solitude


    Your laptop will tell you there's no boot disk or similar. Install Windows on a USB using Rufus, and boot from it to install on the SSD. If there's no serial code on the bottom of the laptop, you will be able to get one from reddit for about €20


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    Merl1n
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Merl1n


    the laptop wont boot

    the new ssd is blank and the existing drive has new copy of windows

    did the ssd come with cloning software

    you need a bootable usb key with some cloning software or a better option would be a fresh load of windows onto the new ssd
    then you end up with a clean bloat free windows and the latest drivers :)


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    B_Sharp
    Registered Users Posts: 211 ✭✭B_Sharp


    Merl1n wrote: »
    did the ssd come with cloning software

    you need a bootable usb key with some cloning software or a better option would be a fresh load of windows onto the new ssd
    then you end up with a clean bloat free windows and the latest drivers :)

    Ya, I think Samsung have their own cloning software. I'll prob go with a fresh install alright, especially with the Lenovo bloatware stuff that came out a while ago.

    If I create a bootable USB, swap the hard drives and then boot from the USB, am I good to go then? I haven't had to do a fresh install of Windows and deal with BIOS before so I'm learning all the while :D


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    Merl1n
    Registered Users Posts: 251 ✭✭Merl1n


    you might have to change the boot order to get it to boot from usb some models have a one time boot option maybe f12
    then do the install

    the install will be much cleaner and leave you with a faster system

    if its windows 8 you might want to boot the original hdd and extract the windows product key

    once you install the same version it should work


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