Intel Rapid Start on HP Envy 4-1130us Ultrabook

Hi guys,

I recently swaped out my 500GB slim mechanical disk drive with a 512GB SSD. This swap inevitabley "broke" the smart response technology and rapid start settings, and I am trying to figure out how to reconfigure it on the 32GB mSATA SSD (at least the rapid start, SRT is pretty much pointless on a SSD).

I found some PDFs on the web that talked about how to recreate it by creating the hibernation partition on the mSATA SSD (diskpart, set id=84 override, etc.). If I switch the disk to MBR mode and use set id=84, I can get it to recognize the volume as a hibernation partition. If I leave the partition alone as a GPT and use set id=(Some long alphanumeric string) override, it recognizes it as a hidden primary parition (versus a hibernation partition on a MBR volume).

Regardless of MBR vs GPT, once I create the parition I cannot get the intel rapid start driver to install. I've tried the HP version for windows 8 64-bit, and when I start setup.exe I get a message that says "your computer does not meet the minimum system requirements".

Has anyone managed to successfully re-create the intel rapid start configuration before?

Thanks!

 

I can't guarantee that this helps you with your HP laptop, but the topic has been discussed extensively in the Samsung forum. Hopefully you'll be able to translate the approaches discussed there to your HP Envy. Oh, and Rapid Start is not pointless at all on an SSD. You'll see much faster Startup times even from an SSD. The trick is that with the Intel Rapid Start drivers, your system will use the same approach to booting that Microsoft has built into Windows 8: In this case, the core system is in fact written to the SSD, and when "booting", this is read back into memory, obviating the need to re-initialize the system configuration. The end result is a system that can cold-boot in less than ten seconds.