BrokeHombre
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I've had this unit for about a week now, it originally came with a WD 750gig Scorpio Black HDD with Win8 Home installed. I cloned the HDD to my Samsung 120gig SSD SATA III. It took a few tries but finally got ACRONIS True Image 2013 to work. After Cloning I installed the SSD in the Drive 0 space where the HDD was, I left the HDD out. I powered up and it booted to the desktop with no problems. I attached the HDD to the laptop by using a HDD adaptor (connected by USB) and noticed that it wasn't recognized when I clicked on 'Computer' but when I checked Disk Manager it was listed, discription was 'Healthy GPT Protected Partition' I was unable to format or anything. at one point I thought I had it formatted - it was listed as Unallocated - but when I mounted back in the laptop at Drive 1 and booted the machine it still wasnt found in 'computer' but was in Disk Management and was once again 'GPT Protected Partition'
I called AW support and after discribing everything to the support specialist, he mentioned that it was something to the effect that the HDD that shipped with the laptop would somehow only work in Drive 0 - I find that hard to believe personally, but went with it. He stated that there wasnt much more he could do since I more or less voided my warranty, for pretty much just Upgrading my laptop. Anywho...I thought I would test his statement, I swapped places with the HDD and SSD ( I put the SSD in Drive 1 and the HDD in Drive 0) I booted and it booted to the SSD but still would not 'see' the HDD, only in Disk Managememnt and still as a GPT Protected Partition, and I was still unable to format or anyting. I am at a loss - Any thoughts?? Has Anyone else ran iton this??
I know the R3's had issues recognizing SSD's in Drive 0 but I also read that was taken care of in the R4's I am also thinking of using Alien Respawn to recover back to the SSD, I noticed a few small issues, mainly with System Recovery which I believe I should just turn off anyway since it is an SSD and dont want un necessary writes to it. Not only that but thats what the respawn is for.
Thanks for letting me ramble on - any advice is/will be greatly appreciated.
I called AW support and after discribing everything to the support specialist, he mentioned that it was something to the effect that the HDD that shipped with the laptop would somehow only work in Drive 0 - I find that hard to believe personally, but went with it. He stated that there wasnt much more he could do since I more or less voided my warranty, for pretty much just Upgrading my laptop. Anywho...I thought I would test his statement, I swapped places with the HDD and SSD ( I put the SSD in Drive 1 and the HDD in Drive 0) I booted and it booted to the SSD but still would not 'see' the HDD, only in Disk Managememnt and still as a GPT Protected Partition, and I was still unable to format or anyting. I am at a loss - Any thoughts?? Has Anyone else ran iton this??
I know the R3's had issues recognizing SSD's in Drive 0 but I also read that was taken care of in the R4's I am also thinking of using Alien Respawn to recover back to the SSD, I noticed a few small issues, mainly with System Recovery which I believe I should just turn off anyway since it is an SSD and dont want un necessary writes to it. Not only that but thats what the respawn is for.
Thanks for letting me ramble on - any advice is/will be greatly appreciated.