Using a SSD as boot drive

Myst3r · Post time 2019-03-07 15:58:40

Edited by Myst3r at 2019-03-07 20:00

Hello, I managed to do it easily with a 1TB SSD from Crucial (MX500 serie) . However, I used MACRIUM Reflect to clone the system. (Crucial app didn't work)

Groover1971 · Post time 2019-09-10 02:27:55

Edited by Groover1971 at 2019-09-11 09:08

I am using the SII with the N4100, 4Gb of ram, and 64 Gb of eMMC storage. I made the mistake of trying to use an M.2 drive that uses NVMe and found out that it is not supported "at this time". So I am sending that back and have ordered a SATA 2.5" drive. It should be a lot easier to install than the M.2 was. The Crucial SSD says it comes with Acronis to clone the drive. I'm hoping that I can get the BIOS to recognize it as the boot drive. I'll find out tomorrow. Stay tuned.

Update:
I was able to get Acronis to clone my SSD and that only took about 10-15 minutes after reading their online guides. But it didn't show up in my File Manager until I assigned a drive letter to it using "Disk Management" . Since the internal 64Gb drive was already C:, I assigned it letter D: and it appeared in the File Manager. But it still didn't boot to the SSD until I went into the BIOS and switched the boot order. It booted on the SSD as drive C: and now the internal drive is D:.

Groover1971 · Post time 2019-09-18 12:36:22

ChrisBC replied at 2019-01-07 08:59
I was finally able to complete Win 10 1809 update by using the Media Creation tool, took about 4 hou ...

I had trouble updating my Windows 10 also and then I downloaded and ran the Windows 10 Update Assistant. It worked great.

Groover1971 · Post time 2019-10-08 11:24:56

Groover1971 replied at 2019-09-18 12:36
I had trouble updating my Windows 10 also and then I downloaded and ran the Windows 10 Update Assi ...

I had to do the same thing. But its working great now.