Slow laptop

Biggus_Dickus

Hebrews12 said:

It's a bit like Twitter on here.  Some really helpful people and...

It’s nothing like Twitter;...for one thing Donald J Trump isn’t banned from MSE.  He was asking for help on the “Pensions & Retirement Planning” forum just yesterday.

TheRightOne

pbartlett said:

you will need the caddy anyway to clone the hdd to ssd. you dont need extra memory to start with, just the ssd. good luck.

Clone why?? He has reset it to Factory, so nothing to save. Much better to run a clean install to the SSD.

pbartlett

resets the hdd to factory from the hidden partition on the hdd - op cannot simply put a blank ssd in the laptop? unless it hold two drives of course?

neilmcl

pbartlett said:

resets the hdd to factory from the hidden partition on the hdd - op cannot simply put a blank ssd in the laptop? unless it hold two drives of course?

Yes he can. To do a clean install of Win 10 that's exactly what he will need to do. Obviously he won't boot up to it because they'd be booting to their W10 installation media, probably a USB stick if they're doing it correctly.

pbartlett

yes if installing from dvd of course. but i rather thought from the first post that the op was using the recovery partition on the hdd. 

neilmcl

pbartlett said:

yes if installing from dvd of course. but i rather thought from the first post that the op was using the recovery partition on the hdd. 

Only because they were reinstalling on the existing HDD, if they're going to upgrade to an SSD then there's really no need and probably the wrong way to go about it.

 All they need to do is download and create the W10 bootable media to a USB stick, replace the HDD with the SSD, set the BIOS to boot from the USB, then clean install. No need to clone anything, and they'd only need a caddy if they then want to copy any data over from the old HDD to the SSD. Prior to doing any of this it would be useful if they download and store a copy of the all the latest drivers for their laptop from the manufacturer's support page.

pbartlett

Yes to are totally correct  - there are 3 ways and there are no right answers:

1. download latest W10 image from microsoft, burn to DVD or use rufus to make a bootable USB stick, boot laptop from that and install new system. As you say, then look a device manger to check all drivers are present - also download from Lenovo any Lenovo-specific apps that came with the laptop that you want to keep. No recovery partition available going forward.

2. attach new SSD to caddy and clone it from existing HDD, then install the SSD in the laptop. Recovery partition is available going forward.

3. use a program such as true image etc to make a system image. Copy that to a usb stick - this in effect becomes your recovery partition going forward so you don't need one anymore. Install the SSD, boot from true-image media, recover image from usb stick to SSD.

J_B

pbartlett said:

you will need the caddy anyway to clone the hdd to ssd. you dont need extra memory to start with, just the ssd. good luck.

Best to reinstall W10 then copy over the files you want rather than "clone"

debitcardmayhem

pbartlett said:

Yes to are totally correct  - there are 3 ways and there are no right answers:

1. download latest W10 image from microsoft, burn to DVD or use rufus to make a bootable USB stick, boot laptop from that and install new system. As you say, then look a device manger to check all drivers are present - also download from Lenovo any Lenovo-specific apps that came with the laptop that you want to keep. No recovery partition available going forward.

2. attach new SSD to caddy and clone it from existing HDD, then install the SSD in the laptop. Recovery partition is available going forward.

3. use a program such as true image etc to make a system image. Copy that to a usb stick - this in effect becomes your recovery partition going forward so you don't need one anymore. Install the SSD, boot from true-image media, recover image from usb stick to SSD.

Nonsense

1) export any drivers (for what I don't really know ?) to a stick or whatever, download the Windows iso from MS and create a bootable USB using MS tools/Rufus etc

boot said disk and install, don't use Microsofts defaults to create/use a MS account, don't bother with Lenovo/recovery partition etc, you have a recovery USB which you just used. If (unlikely) it goes doofers up everything is still on the old disk.

2) Don't clone you will have all the crap you have already

3) see 2 

So simple why complicate it

getmore4less

if you used  recovery on an old system won't it spend ages updating.

Did a 2010 laptop last Oct with the  20h2 install and it was a breeze
runs a treat and that has  i3-330m @ 2.13GHz
 i3-5005U @ 2.00GHz  should be plenty fast enough

I had 1GB+2Gb  went to 2GB+4GB £6 from CEX  
(could collect as walk past the place anyway and pick from the stock they had would have gone 2x4 if they had a pair)
 
SSD did a MX500 250GB(amazon) overkill but only £32 seem to be £40+ today could go BX or smaller to save bit.
https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B0764WCXCV?context=search

Worth the money to get it going and the SSD is reusable anyway if you decide it is really broken.



looks like this manual might have something useful
https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/ideapad305_hmm_en.pdf