I can understand the need to set the mode to RAID when using the original configuration of the small SSD as a cache for the hard drive via RST. In particular, the only two choices available for the SATA Mode parameter in the BIOS are RAID and AHCI. I still need to know explicitly whether I need to change any of the BIOS settings I listed, and if so, at which step in the process. It sounds as if by “image” you mean a recovery drive is that correct? And if so, is the ability to boot directly from the recovery image drive the reason for preferring it over cloning the disk? The idea of making a just-in-case image before doing anything makes sense. Thanks very much for your help and your patience with my questions. There’s no mention of SRT itself anywhere in the UEFI settingsĭo I need to change any of these? If so, when do I make the changes: before removing the old SSD and hard drive, or right after installing the new SSD, or after reinstalling the reformatted hard drive? On the “Hard Disk Drives” subpage of the “Boot” page are the following: On the main “Boot” page are the following:ġst Boot Device: UEFI:Windows Boot Manager Here’s what the disk-related settings currently are in the UEFI: (I’m going to just save the old 32GB SSD for some future use.) However, since I’m quite unfamiliar with working with UEFI settings, I’m not sure what, if anything, I need to edit in it. Then, per your sequence, I should clone the hard drive to the new 256GB SSD, then remove the hard drive and the old SSD, then install the new SSD by itself, then reformat and reinstall the hard drive as a secondary drive. (I’m learning a lot from this process!)įrom reading up on SRT, it looks like I should disable it first (via the Intel Rapid Storage Manager program) before cloning the hard drive, so that the SSD cache is flushed before the cloning. (I’d never seen an mSATA drive before, so it took me a while to figure out it was there.) It looks like your suggested steps will be the way to go, but I need to ask you a bit more because I’d never heard of Intel Smart Response Technology before you mentioned it. By opening the lid as you suggested (and giving myself a “Duh!” forehead slap for not thinking of that before), I found that there is indeed a little mSATA 32GB SSD on the motherboard as well as the 2TB hard drive in a drive bay. Unfortunately, the reply from Paul T indicates that the situation is more complicated than I T: Many thanks for your very helpful reply. Thanks for any help that may be Thanks for the idea of using a recovery disk I hadn’t thought of that. (2) If the cloning is successful and I make the new 256GB SSD my Windows+apps drive, can I use the hybrid drive solely as a data drive? I assume I’d have to reformat the hybrid drive to remove Windows from it, but again, does it being a hybrid drive cause any problems in re-purposing it to being a data drive only? However, does the source drive being a hybrid introduce any obstacles or complications in the cloning? (1) Can I clone the hybrid drive to the 256GB SSD? (The 2TB hybrid drive has only about 30GB used on it, so space shouldn’t be a problem on the 256GB drive, right?) I’ve successfully cloned a 512GB hard drive to a 512GB SSD for my laptop using Mini-Tools Partition Wizard, and I’d like to use that program again if possible. I have zero experience with hybrid drives, so before I do anything foolish, I’m asking for help with the following questions: This is apparently a Seagate hybrid hard drive with a 32GB internal solid state cache (though I can’t find much of anything about this model online). To my surprise when I booted the new machine, it actually has only a single drive, identified by Device Manager as a ST2000DM001-1ER. My plan was to replace the 32GB SSD (by cloning it) with a 256GB SSD, which would then be my system+apps drive I would then use the 2TB hard drive solely as a data drive. The description of the system’s hard drive on the website read “2TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6.0 Gb/s + 32GB SSD”, which I took to mean two separate drives, namely, a 32GB SSD (which I assumed would hold Windows and possibly a few other programs) and a 2TB hard drive (for everything else). I just bought from the Costco website a new Dell XPS 8700 with Windows 8.1 and 16GB of RAM. For the past decade, I’ve gotten many useful tips and solutions from the Lounge, but my search didn’t find anything on my current problem, so here I am.
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