Actionable Mango

Actionable Mango

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    I refuse to pay for “Free, easy and fast tools” just to discover they don’t work too.

    There’s no reason to pay for the pro versions. The required features are in the freeware versions.

    They worked fine for me. If they didn’t work for you, there are several other free methods for cloning and changing partition size. For example someone mentioned using Macrium Free.

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    So I had done all of this. New Windows Boot is listed as priority 1 in BIOS. However in the advanced settings it just shows Windows 10, and no other options. I can’t delete anything off the old drive. I’ve changed where everything new saves, but when I try to download a program (like iTunes or Google Chrome) it downloads to the C drive (old drive) or says that this must be installed to a system disk, and asks me to choose one, and the only option is the completely full C drive. It’s driving me nuts! I downloaded a partition manager and was able to move the recovery partition and then expand the new D drive. So plenty of room there, but can’t get programs to save there period, and certainly not by default.

     

    It seems you are still booting with eMMC as C: drive, and it is normal for some applications to only want to install to the system drive.

    The fact that there is only one entry instead of two entries for Default Boot Device tells me that your clone isn’t bootable for some reason. I’d redo the clone. As I said in the instructions, you need to switch the boot drive there–the BIOS setting made no difference in my experience.

    #142049
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    What tool did you use to fix this? It might be useful for other people to know in case they have the same problem.

    #142048
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    I can see the ssd in the bios but only in the security section, i can also use it without any problem in windows; the problem is that I don’t know how to set it as the main memory basically, so that the pc won’t boot from the eMMC.

    I describe how to do this in step 9. You should have two entries there for Windows. That’s where I changed which Windows drive to boot to. If you don’t have two entries there, I don’t know what to say. It just worked for me.

    I know this may sound silly people as I’m trying to learn, but how can you confirm if the laptop is booting in the SSD or the eMMC?

    Objectively, open “Computer Management” and select “Drive Management”. Look at your C: drive.

    Subjectively, it is like a zillion times faster to load apps, do Windows updates, etc. So it should be very very noticeably much more peppy.

     

    #140687
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    Great post, but I can’t get through step 9, I can’t see my ssd in the bios nor the “other” windows 10 in the control panel. Any ideas on how to proceed?

    If the drive isn’t appearing anywhere, not even the BIOS, it sounds like the drive has failed or the M.2 has failed. I can’t think of anything other than trying to reseat the drive in the slot or if you have another computer with M.2 slot, you could test to see if the drive works there. If you don’t, I’d exchange the drive.

     

    #76238
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    Where the heck are you guys finding a heat pipe that happens to be shaped appropriately to connect to the CPU and then route to and connect with the metal bar?

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