Replacing HD with SSD
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When i did mine i used a caddy and put my old drive into the caddy, bought a license and installed windows 8 via usb onto my new ssd and spent afew hours trawling the sony site to find all my drivers and getting the install order correct. I then put my caddy into the disk drive bay on my laptop 
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Checked this out, looks promising, thank you!
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The SSD bundle comes with the caddie add-on, while I was thinking of using it for that exact purpose, I downloaded an 8.1 iso, going to use a generic key, then activate my own.
I went through the program list last night to see what driver I needed, there's not many, so fresh install it is.
SSD is arriving today, so hopefully Ill get an hour or two tonight to get things up and running, I'm excited to see the difference.
However, I realised I don't have the correct HD caddie for inside the laptop to fit the second drive bay, or the thin sata cable to connect it up, looks like a company in the states sell what I'm looking for, for the model of my laptop, the downside is its going to cost almost as much as the SSD, this couldn't be normal, any suggestions on a cheaper alternative?
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SSD arrived, tried to install 8.1 iso on a SDHC memory card, it worked but bios won't recognise it 
ahh well, copying 18gb of photos from a storage memory pen onto an external HD so I can use it for the iso.
The second HD cant be installed yet, would anyone know where I can pick up one of those rubber caddies and the thin ribbon sata/power cables for a laptop?
ahh well, copying 18gb of photos from a storage memory pen onto an external HD so I can use it for the iso. The second HD cant be installed yet, would anyone know where I can pick up one of those rubber caddies and the thin ribbon sata/power cables for a laptop?
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SSD installed, and tbh its fantastic, from powered off to login takes 5-6 seconds, what the ****, the 8.1 login loads and flashes away almost straight away.
Any reason why the laptop wont recognize the SSD when not in legacy mode in the bios?
Any reason why the laptop wont recognize the SSD when not in legacy mode in the bios?
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nope, won't activate the product
no idea why, think I might of installed the wrong version.
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Ok, my second HD caddy and cables arrived from the states, few reboots and the drives are recognized.
However, The product will still not authenticate and updates are a no no, so I've had an idea.
Instead of formatting the whole original 1Tb drive, I kept the partion, and only formatted the windows section.
So as you can see from the image, I've a 120 SSD, 1 tb storage drive, and a 25gb recovery.
My question is, how can I use the recovery? Is it still possible to put that recovery onto the SSD so I can access the windows store etc and do update?
However, The product will still not authenticate and updates are a no no, so I've had an idea.
Instead of formatting the whole original 1Tb drive, I kept the partion, and only formatted the windows section.
So as you can see from the image, I've a 120 SSD, 1 tb storage drive, and a 25gb recovery.
My question is, how can I use the recovery? Is it still possible to put that recovery onto the SSD so I can access the windows store etc and do update?