Notebooks & Netbooks

[greg1]

Heh, great minds!

If you mean performance boost from the SSD... it is always fantastic!  I can't go back to mechanical drives anymore.  However, I didn't really use the machine much before I changed that out.

[Bitfox]

Hi :-)

it RAM now working and wich brand you use?

Ciao,

Bitfox

[mitchellvii]

Can someone point me to a guide on removing the HDD?  I have an SSD I would like to replace it with but for the life of me I cannot figure out how to remove the HDD.  I opened the back withut issue the removed the little black screws I could see holding the HDD bracket down.  No luck, wouldn't budge.  So I removed the silver screws holding the drive in the bracket - again no joy - won't budge.

Didn't apply much pressure as I did't want to break anything - but in the past HDD's have always lifted out with relative ease.

Someone who has already done this can you help me out?  Thanks!

** One more thing.  Now that I put everything back together, seems my HDD is churning and zooming a bit.  Not sure why this would be as I didn't move it at all and it obviously works as I am tying this on the R7.  An ideas?

New update. Couldn't stop the hard drive churning so decided to restore the whole system from scratch again. As it restores hard drive not churning at all just running steady. So apparently nothing physical is amiss. For some reason something was churning it although it was not apparent in the task manager. Weird.

Really would like to be able to drop this SSD in here to cut HDD sound altogether if I can figure out how to remove the darned thing. Was hoping for a tear down video online but nothing.

[mitchellvii]

Ok figured out how to get the HDD out. Just remove the side silver screws and carefully shimmy the hard drive up and pull back. Then do the opposite to set the SSD.

In this case my SSD is and older Sata 2 version. Although I cloned the HDD to it, the computer doesn't want to see it.  I even tried booting from my USB recovery stick and it tells me "drive is locked". Attempting to do startup repair fails as well. If I run UEFI startup the Bios does not seem to recognize my SSD in the boot sequence saying only HDD. However if I set it to Legacy boot sequence the SSD name appears on the list.

Have no idea what is happening there. Thought I needed UEFI for Windows 8?

Anyway will probably just go back to the HDD and live with that until my SATA 3 SSD gets here.

Anyone know what I am doing wrong?  Tried to do full recovery from USB stick to SSD but computer does not see it at all.

** UPDATE: Just dropped a new Samsung EVO 120 in and it works great.  Samsung's cloning software is the best.

[pds]

Well count me in on the R7-572 owners...

So far so great, glad I'd took the risk on this laptop...

I installed a 128gb msata ssd I had laying around and swapped out the wifi card for the new Intel 7260-AC.

I cloned the hard drive to the ssd and that went great.  I'm also fooling with an 8gb Intel Rapid Start partition.

My only wish would be to have it just a tad smaller, like an inch or 2 less wide.

I'll keep you posted.

[mitchellvii]

Here's a pen mounting idea.  Simple rubber penclip and some two sided tape.  Works great.

[pds]

Doesn't seem the R7 bios supports Intel Rapid Start.  I hope they add support for this.

[Rainebo]

My R7 572 came with a stylus in the box along with a palm rest and cleaning cloth. Shouldn't they all come with these?

[pds]

Mine from Bestbuy, has the palm rest, no stylus.  I guess you got lucky!

[PenguinJim]

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mitchellvii wrote:

In this case my SSD is and older Sata 2 version. Although I cloned the HDD to it, the computer doesn't want to see it.  I even tried booting from my USB recovery stick and it tells me "drive is locked". Attempting to do startup repair fails as well. If I run UEFI startup the Bios does not seem to recognize my SSD in the boot sequence saying only HDD. However if I set it to Legacy boot sequence the SSD name appears on the list.

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** UPDATE: Just dropped a new Samsung EVO 120 in and it works great.  Samsung's cloning software is the best.

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I had the same problem. Wasted half a day trying to fix it! Acer's Recovery USB just wasn't recovering to my new MSATA SSD. I ended up cloning, like you. 

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mitchellvii wrote:

Can someone point me to a guide on removing the HDD?

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If anyone else needs a quick look at how to open up to access the SATA, MSATA and RAM, I saw a lack of R7-opening videos on Youtube so knocked one together when I opened mine yesterday.