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    Help please - Issues after Acronis Clone to SSD from HDD

    Discussion in '2015+ Alienware 13 / 15 / 17' started by ZOG Paradox, Mar 1, 2017.

  1. ZOG Paradox

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    I got an Outlet Alienware 17 R4(specs are down below in signature, only thing that I have changed is the 1TB HDD to a 500GB Samsung Evo 850 SSD)

    The laptop came with the OS on the 1TB HDD, why it wasn't on the SSD is beyond me... I worked on migrating the OS from the HDD to the OEM m.2 SSD, but that didn't work for me at all. So I went out to bestbuy and found a 500GB 2.5 Toshiba 850 Evo SSD, and used Acronis True Image to clone the HDD to the SSD. I plugged the SSD in, everything booted up fine, kind of slow, like the HDD, but figured it was just the first time boot on a new disk.

    That was 4 days ago! haha It's still slow. There are tons of problems with the OS saving settings for my Logitech Mouse, it usually says the USB device isn't recognized, so I have to set it up again as a new device. Along with extremely slow saves from Adobe Illustrator for super small files, as well as when I save it as a PDF.

    Should I do a clean install of windows? Since I haven't really downloaded anything too crazy yet, it isn't a huge deal, but I just don't know how to go about installing it with the SATA SSD plugged in. I want the OS on the NVMe m.2 SSD.

    Anyone, please help.

    And to the mods, I'm, sorry if this is in the wrong spot.
     
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  2. Vasudev

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    Have you switched to AHCI from RAID mode? I'd recommend doing a clean install to get rid of the bloat and start from fresh.
     
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    Thanks for the reply!

    It says in the BIOS that it's using AHCI. Is there some special way to do it other than in BIOS?
     
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    So you're booting OS off AHCI right?
     
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    Fixed it. Wow... So my dumb self never actually saved it to operate in AHCI mode. SSD is now working properly.

    Fully reinstalled and installed all drivers, now downloading my larger programs. Thanks so much for that heads up @Vasudev !!!
     
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    Reinstall clean Os. Only put in the ssd you want install your OS on. Otherwise you can risk the boot files will be installed on an other disk. Probably what you already have now.
     
    Papusan, Mar 2, 2017
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    I always name my drive as Data, Linux and Windows. Unless you're installing another OS, you must follow @Papusan advice and I second it as well. If you're installing Linux, remove one drive and partition the new drive with recommended partitions like ESP, Root partition and page file.
     
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