Notebooks & Netbooks

[EvlSmrk]

Ok. I don't know how to do that from where I'm at now. It seems I can only get into BIOS.

[greg1]

Are both the hard drive and the SSD still in the computer?  If so, take the hard drive out and try using the recovery USB drive with only the SSD installed.

[EvlSmrk]

I had taken the SSD out because I was planning on taking it back to Best Buy to see if I could exchange it, but I tried another boot, going into BIOS, then launching into Safe Mode. Once there it ran the Recovery tool again, so I figured what's the harm in letting it run again and see what happened and this time it seems to have worked. It's currently on the desktop and seems to be installing a bunch of additional stuff, currently on 5 of 92 actually.

[EvlSmrk]

Everything seems to go well last night after I went to bed and let it continue to run. Kicked it on this morning and the standard configuration screen showed up. So, that's good.

Thinking of removing the HDD, and running the recovery usb on the SSD. If all works with that I'll format the HDD and hopefully be rocking. Anything special I need to know about removing the HDD, or is it really as simple as it looks? I see two black screws and the connector. Just unscrew the two screws and lift out the whole chassis. Leave the connector attached to the HDD, or in the computer, or does it matter?

[PenguinJim]

There's a video which includes HDD removal here. It seems to just be removing two screws and popping it out.

Personally, I've kept the extra SATA L-connector out for now. If I need it for the laptop, I'll be opening the laptop anyway. If I need it for something else (or the laptop is lost/stolen), then it's here and ready. Besides, it's one less gram to carry.

[EvlSmrk]

Took the HDD out and am running the recovery on the SSD right now. It's back on the desktop and currently installing 36 of 92.

Don't know what launching in Safe Mode with Command Prompt did last night, but it seems to have solved the issue.

[netuser]

Hi,

I just bought my Acer R7-572-6637 in Canada, I want to know if the mSata port is Sata 3 also ?  As I would much eatehr prefer to keep my HDD and add an mSata SSD and have my OS on it.  But if it is sata 2 then I will rather go replace HDD with SSD.

Can anyone who has added the mSata can please check if it is Sata 3 and confirm before i go that way.

Thanks a lot

[greg1]

Yes, both of the drives are SATA-3.

[netuser]

Thanks greg for quick reply

any disadvantage using Msata instead of HDD sata ?

[armageddon51]

I bought the same machine and looking for that upgrade too. The desadvantages of the msata that I can see seems to be their limited availability from differents manufacturers. Less performant and more expensive per GB then a regular high end ssd. Will had to the laptop power consumtion a bit. Still I will probably go that way too when I find a good performing msata. Buy a 60 GB msata for the OS and leave the 750GB for "dead" data.