I also did the same thing as you, except I bought the Samsung 840 series 250gb. The way I did it was put the SSD in slot 2 (the open one), boot to windows and initialize the drive (this scared me cause when I was troubleshooting an old hard drive and initialized it, it turned to a brick, but don't worry, this won't happen to you)* then once it's initialized, DOWNLOAD** the samsung magician and cloning software from the 840 series driver page and install them. From there, it can update the firmware of the SSD, and with the cloning software, clone the OS and data from the 1tb that came with it, over to the SSD, then what I did after all that, was swap the hard drives around internally (maybe just piece of mind, not sure if it's actually reqd) and booted from the OS on SSD, then formatted the 1tb (which is 2 partitions stock, made it 1) and voila!!
This laptop REALLY shines with an SSD installed. Hope that helps and is not too confusing.
* - I say this won't happen to you because the "old drive" I initialized was already initialized and was a crappy drive on it's way out the door. However, if your Samsung SSD doesn't need initialized (if it shows as a disc drive and with 128gb free space) than don't initialize it.
** - I say DOWNLOAD because the drivers on the disc aren't recommended by the 840 SSD community.. the downloaded software works perfectly fine for me.
Fyx wrote:
Thanks for the response. Hopefully I don't break any clips.
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