PeterBaileyUk
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change hard drive in lenovo g510
I have a g510 lenovo laptop it has a 320gb mechanical hard drive. I would like to have the main drive c as a 240gb ssd but when i boot up with the recovery drive with the ssd installed i go through recovery routine and select reset which gets to 43 percent then fails.
As a test i added a 500 gb hybrid did the same and it resets as it should.
So what do i need to do to make the ssd work i am guessing its because i am reducing hard drive size.
I would prefer the hybrid as the second drive.
maybe someone has a lenovo.
As a test i added a 500 gb hybrid did the same and it resets as it should.
So what do i need to do to make the ssd work i am guessing its because i am reducing hard drive size.
I would prefer the hybrid as the second drive.
maybe someone has a lenovo.
John
Probably the best thing to do (what I do for all Lenovo machines) is get a set of Recovery media from Lenovo, take out the hard drive and install the recovery media directly to the SSD. That will prevent any conflicts.
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what i do in such a case - is this:
-i do the recovery on the original drive (backup the data before - if you need it)
then image that drive to the SSD - i use the paragon B&R for this : http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/download.html
-then install the SSD and boot from it
-i do the recovery on the original drive (backup the data before - if you need it)
then image that drive to the SSD - i use the paragon B&R for this : http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/download.html
-then install the SSD and boot from it
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i have easeus version 10 partition master software will paragon software do this with the free version?
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I have the original drive in but easeus doesnt give the migrate option which it does have do i have to prepare the ssd someway
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It finally worked with this method