Hey guys, I'm planning on upgrading my new Lenovo IdeaPad 300 17".The first thing I want to upgrade is the hard drive. I have not booted up the laptop yet. My question is after I upgraded the hard drive, will the factory software and OS on the laptop remain, similar to upgrading RAM. Or will everything erase and I have to download a copy of the software and OS before upgrading. Sorry if I sound confusing, this is the first PC I plan on upgrading. Thanks!
Upgrading Hard Drive on New Laptop
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- Mar 16, 2013
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If you just swap out the drive, there is nothing on the new drive. The OS and factory software exists on the drive it came with.
3 options:
1. Clone from the existing drive to the new one.
2. Create the Factory Reset disks, with whatever functionality is provided.
Swap the drives, boot from that disk you made, and install on the new drive
3. Buy your own OS and install
What drive is in there, and what are you changing to?
3 options:
1. Clone from the existing drive to the new one.
2. Create the Factory Reset disks, with whatever functionality is provided.
Swap the drives, boot from that disk you made, and install on the new drive
3. Buy your own OS and install
What drive is in there, and what are you changing to?
AndroidEx05
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Hello,
If you do have planed to change another new hard drive to instead the old one, everything inside the original hard drive often will be wiped. Merely go search for a drive cloning tool to copy everything needed to the new hard drive.
If you do have planed to change another new hard drive to instead the old one, everything inside the original hard drive often will be wiped. Merely go search for a drive cloning tool to copy everything needed to the new hard drive.
Yeah I was deciding whether I'm going for ssd or hdd. I should probably mention I'm on a budget which is less than $100, the 1 TB hdd seems really appealing to my budget. Also I think the ssd might not be so future proof if I can only afford 250 GB. Or should I settle for sshd?
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