I'm thinking of swapping out my partners ODD for a bay which can house an SSD. Her current HDD is a 1tb 5400rpm drive which is slow as all hell but she needs the internal storage.
Is the process as simple as pulling out the ODD and swapping in the SSD bay like this one and then using some cloning software to switch the drive the OS is running from.
If it helps, the laptop is a Lenovo E530 and it's currently running windows 10.
Cheers,
Brouw3r
The boot order should already have the ODD before the HDD, I know if I put a windows disk in it will try boot from that.
has someone done this before on that model?
If it were me, i'd swap the drives around (SSD in primary disk space, old HDD in ODD space), format and boot from scratch.
has someone done this before on that model?
Not that I can find. It's the right size ODD bay adapter and the Q&A section on amazon asks for a specific (different) Lenovo and the reply was "Should work with most laptops unless otherwise specified".
I'm not sure if the HDD will fit in the ODD bay, and they should both be SATA3 interfaces so I don't think it will make much difference either way.
On a side note; how does window 10 work with authenticating the "key" if it was upgraded from W8.1 and technically has new components? I was under the impression it was "registered" with a certain configuration. Either I can reformat with W8.1 and upgrade or try for W10 off the bat and hope I don't have to contact MS support.
edit: wait it's not a desktop
The only thing i would add is changing the boot order in bios, im not sure the cloning software will be that useful in selecting os drive