#Use ssd as boot drive upgrade
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#Use ssd as boot drive Pc
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Replace the elements of the computer you moved out of the way and power it back up, making sure the USB drive you recently created is in a USB socket. This makes it much easier to insert through the M.2 and into the hole before tightening. Put a tiny bit of Blu Tack on the head of the screw and then stick it to the screwdriver. Tip: the retaining screw is tiny, and can be hard to get back into its hole, especially with fat fingers like mine. Note in most cases the M.2 must be inserted at 45 degrees and then flattened and secured using the retaining screw. This done, I can now unscrew the retaining screw at the end of the current M.2 drive, slide it out of its socket and replace it with the new one. The next steps will vary depending on your hardware, but in my case, to get at the M.2 drive on the motherboard, I have to remove the side panel of my tower, swing the power supply out of the way and remove the GPU (graphics card) and its power cables. When that is done, power down the computer again. This can normally be done by rebooting and pressing F2 or F12 when prompted by the BIOS. Select your USB drive from the list of available drives in the dialog and choose Build.Д«efore we switch the computer off you may need to change the BIOS boot settings so that the computer tries to boot from a USB first in the boot sequence. Under the Other Tasks section in Macrium, choose the option to Create bootable Rescue Media.

#Use ssd as boot drive Pc

My PC boots from the disk I am about to remove so we need to create a bootable USB drive so that when the machine boots after the disk change it will boot from that. Put the kettle on! Create a bootable USB drive I used an external desktop drive and created a sub folder on it for disk images.Д¬lick Next, skip the next screen where you can set up a plan for regular backups by clicking Next again, then click Finish. The second part of the dialog is where we select the destination for the source disk image we are about to create. This should select all the partitions on this disk but make sure that there is a check mark under each of them before starting the image.

Make sure there is a check mark beside this source disk and no other. The Macrium Reflect dialog for creating an image of your disk.

Normally the boot disk - the one we want to change - will be the first of these, GPT 1.

#Use ssd as boot drive software

Open Macrium Reflect and make sure the Backup tab is selected in the top right of the screen.Д¬hoose Image selected disks on this computer under Backup TasksДЄ dialog will open showing a list of all the physical hard disks available to the software at the time. It will also help me to create a bootable USB stick later on. I'm using Macrium Reflect to make the disk image. Make sure it has plenty of space on it too. I need to make an image of my current M.2, my boot disk, so I'm using an external hard drive for this.

It comes with a 5 year warranty and I really don't need anything any bigger, even with a large Lightroom cache (see below). I opted for this 500GB NVMe M.2 from Samsung for my new disk. Software which will clone/image your source disk and create a bootable USB drive.

#Use ssd as boot drive free

A USB stick with at least 4GB of free space on it.

#Use ssd as boot drive upgrade

Time to retire this drive to my Son's gaming machine and upgrade to a bigger M.2.

Adobe recommend at least 20%, and mine is down to 10%. One of the major factors in the performance of Lightroom is the amount of free disk space on the catalog/previews drive, which should always be your quickest disk. My Dell XPS came with a 256GB NVMe M.2 disk which has served me well up to now, but hasn't got much space left on it. The only problem with this superfast technology - particularly the small on-motherboard M.2 drives - is that it is relatively expensive compared to larger format SSD technology and you don't get much disk space as standard. Many computer systems nowadays come with SSD (Solid State Disk) drives for the operating system to ensure quick start up times and fast read/write times for the operating system and applications.