ah ic thx for the information kinda panicking here
btw any of u guys replacing or adding ur hdd with ssd and windows 8? is the f3 factory reset gonna work if i move my hdd to secondary and use ssd as primary?
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i replaced my primary hdd with ssd now and moved the msi old hdd to secondary bay (before i put my ssd i backup a recovery on my usb flash)
after i do clean instal win 8 on my ssd and format my old hdd, apparently the f3 recovery button doesnt work anymore it dont put me on recovery system screen.. tried pressing it many times nothing happened.
but i think the recovery isnt really important after all, since u can install every drivers easily with one-click-install button from ur driver cd
then now im still experimenting with my usb flash recovery, since cant use the f3 button, i put my flash and set as primary boot. voila it made me accessing recovery system screen now
now from that screen, i have 2 choices:
1. harddisk recovery (will wipe out the entire harddrive and all its partition to factory setting)
status: totally formatted my ssd and lose all my partition from ssd (i created partition C 180gb for windows and created partition E 50gb for my installers, both are gone become only C partition). but the recovery didnt touch my old hdd on secondary bay and nothing lose. and windows 8 are installed in my primary hdd bay, which is in my ssd
2. partition recovery (will wipe out only a partition where u install ur windows)
status: if u wanna this recovery u need to do harddisk recovery 1st
after i finished do the no. 1 i can access my F3 button and bring me to the recovery system screen
my advice: the fastest way to avoid unnecessary problems, if u wanna use ssd: please remove ur hdd > put ur ssd on primary > install clean win 7 or 8 > install drivers and utilities from cd or download from website > put ur old hdd on secondary bay (before this i tried many times with both hdd and ssd attached, it really give me many issues with windows installation)
if u guys have better way please kindly give me ur information
i think this post can become the best tutorial for ppl who wanna use ssd and keep their factory setting, since i googled in these 3 days, most ppl cant use their factory setting and f3 button after they did clean instal windows in their ssd
thx
I've just added a SSD as my boot drive...What i did was use MSI Burn Recovery to create a bootable recovery USB drive..
Remove the HDD, and connect the SSD...(Did not swap bays since both are SATA III ports).
Then I boot into recovery using the USB drive (change boot priority in bios).
Then I restored the windows to the SSD..since the SSD is the only drive available, it will restore windows to that drive...
The recovery partition was also restored to the SSD...so F3 recovery still works for me...
After everything's ok and using for a while, can proceed to format the HDD to get rid of the OS...
I chose this method because it's easier and there's not many bloatwares that came with GX60 (except for a few Norton stuff)..
Apr 30 2013, 11:08 PM
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