Hey everyone, so I don't really know where to start because trying to get this SSD has taken far longer than I expected and I have nothing to show for it as of now.
I'm trying to install an OCZ Vertex SSD into a Lenovo laptop. I originally hooked up the SSD to the computer through a USB port using a USB to SATA adapter while leaving the original hard drive alone. The OCZ drive came with a free activation key for the HD software Acronis. I tried to run this program but using the 'clone hard drive' thing only started the process then would stop and tell me that the software required two hard drives to be attached to the computer. So it was not recognizing the additional drive at all. I tried every USB port on the computer and still got the same result. My SATA connection is set to AHCI.
I then talked to OCZ's product support and got very short answers, the last one saying that they recommend booting the computer from the original HDD through a USB and cloning from there to the SSD. I was skeptical as to why that would make any difference... and it didn't. I've been unable to boot from the HDD through a USB - even when I set the boot drive to boot from a USB port I get nothing. When Windows starts it just goes to the prompt asking if I would like to start the computer normally or in some type of automatic recovery mode - neither of which have worked.
I'm sure I'm leaving some details out but my brain is fried from trying to do this. Also I'd like to know if I can move the whole operating system along with the clone of everything else? And if I wanted to just move Windows 7 over to the SSD without the installation disks could I do that?
Any help would be appreciated! SOS!
I'm trying to install an OCZ Vertex SSD into a Lenovo laptop. I originally hooked up the SSD to the computer through a USB port using a USB to SATA adapter while leaving the original hard drive alone. The OCZ drive came with a free activation key for the HD software Acronis. I tried to run this program but using the 'clone hard drive' thing only started the process then would stop and tell me that the software required two hard drives to be attached to the computer. So it was not recognizing the additional drive at all. I tried every USB port on the computer and still got the same result. My SATA connection is set to AHCI.
I then talked to OCZ's product support and got very short answers, the last one saying that they recommend booting the computer from the original HDD through a USB and cloning from there to the SSD. I was skeptical as to why that would make any difference... and it didn't. I've been unable to boot from the HDD through a USB - even when I set the boot drive to boot from a USB port I get nothing. When Windows starts it just goes to the prompt asking if I would like to start the computer normally or in some type of automatic recovery mode - neither of which have worked.
I'm sure I'm leaving some details out but my brain is fried from trying to do this. Also I'd like to know if I can move the whole operating system along with the clone of everything else? And if I wanted to just move Windows 7 over to the SSD without the installation disks could I do that?
Any help would be appreciated! SOS!