I had no trouble at all replacing my boot drive with an SSD on my prior
computer. Unfortunately I don't remember all the steps I took to do it,
except that it definitely included Acronis.

I think what I did was install the SSD as a secondary drive in my notebook
(yes: my notebook had two drives!), use Acronis to clone the original C:,
swap the drives, and boot.

~ Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf Of
Brent Brown
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:05 AM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [OT]:: Using Samsung 840EVO SSD

Same problem here but different: likewise I've never used a SSD. Purchased
an ADATA SP610 512GB SATA3 SSD for potential speed improvement of laptop
boot time. SSD supplied with Acronis software, good... cloning is what I
want to do so I can swap the drive out.

SSD connected with USB/SATA, Acronis find it ok, Acronis must reboot to
complete task, ok do it... Win7 shutsdown, "Loading, please wait..." Is
12hours long enough to wait? No way to exit, force power off, power on,
blank screen. Power off/on, still blank screen... mild panic. Remove laptop
battery to reset and reboots Windows ok, but no closer to cloning the drive=
..
Checked BIOS allows boot from USB device. No problems with Windows
formatting/mounting the SSD as another drive, just not what I want.

One of those "should be easy" jobs that now has to wait for my patience
levels to recover ;-)

Brent.

On 19 Aug 2014 at 19:06, RussellMc wrote:

> I have never used an SSD.
> I bought a Samsung 840EVO SSD - mainly to see what effect it may have=20
> on wading through large collections of large photo files.
> I assumed that the system would see it as 'just another SATA driv'e.
> It does and it doesn't.
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> PC Win 8.0, spar SATA connector.
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> Drive has standard SATA power and data connectors.
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> ALL the setup documentation that I have seen suggests you must setup=20
> the drive with a USB to SATA converter and that you are going to want=20
> to clone your OS and application files to the SSD.
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> Connecting as a SATA drive and booting from normal book disc causes=20
> the SSD to appear as a low capacity drive. Running the provided=20
> Samsung program on the SSD leads you back to the "clone my hard drive
menus.
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> Is there any was to easily and simply just use this as a standard drive?
> Hopefully without needing a USB to SATA converter.
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>          Russell



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