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Upgrading to SSD
I'm still a noob at computers. My lenovo y50 uses windows 8. I purchased a new Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500gb to replace my 5400 rpm WD slim 1 tb. Without formatting the drive, I inserted the empty drive into a external enclosure, attached a SATA connector though USB on the laptop. First I tried Samsung's data migration to clone, which was successful, but when I replaced the WD slim, after booting it showed the lenovo screen and it immediately went to a blank black screen (mouse shows and HDD activity light blinks). I take the drive out, put back in the enclosure and used Macrium Reflect to clone it. Replaced the drive again and upon booting, it showed the lenovo logo and at the bottom was performing automatic repair. After a few minutes, it said automatic repair couldn't be performed and asked to shut down, this was an endless loop. Both times, the bios recognizes the SSD. So I finally decided to just create an image from macrium reflect on an external hard drive. The image went successful and it passed the verify option, no errors. My question is, do I have to reformat the SSD though disk management again? To restore the image on the SSD, can I put the SSD in an external enslosure with a SATA connector attached via USB and restore the image that way? Would still that be considered an image? If I replaced the HD again, I want to be 100% sure it will boot normally with no problems and function normal. Thanks for advice!