Part 3 of 4 - Installing a Crucial® 2.5' SSD: Install

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[raydeacon]

Followed steps 1 to 3 to swap out an unusable HDD in a 2014 HP Envy laptop for a Crucial SSD and it worked perfectly first time. These instructions are much simpler and easier to follow than the written ones on the Crucial website. Laptop now boots as fast as my 2020 ASUS Zenbook with its NVME drive and programs load instantly, so the laptop is now usable again! Many thanks.

[seenumalathi]

I'm successfully done the HDD to SSD upgrade with MX500 1TB on my dell Inspiron 15 laptop...hardly took me 3hrs to complete the complete clone... ❤️❤️

[McCool]

It would've been nice if you included some screws.
Not everyone is switching out an old drive.

[pnodi]

should included screws, and also. you guys don't show how to configure it so it actually can be storage accessed in

[empoweredchoice]

Excellent content. Gave me the confidence to install myself. Saved me $150.00 and 3-5 days of my PC being in the shop. You guys rock!

[bharat-tfuh]

I successfully cloned 1 TB HDD to 1 TB Crucial SSD in HP Envy M 360 laptop.
Clonned SSD had no Boot, Page File, Crash Dump. And I couldn't find SSD in This PC/Drivers and devices immediately after cloning. SSD had no label like D, E, F.. too.
But once installed in SATA port on motherboard and got boot up with SSD, I can see it in Drivers and Devices along with Boot, Page File with label C.
Thanks Crucial, Acronis and Crucial support.

[beerhekje]

Installed the new ssd! Thx! I had to change my bios settings for Lenovo laptop, so an extra step is needed

[hfb]

I'm installing in a desktop. Where the hell is the part showing the connecting of the cables?

[ludfic]

Just installed a cloned 1TB SSD on my HP 17 laptop and also doubled the memory. Turned it on and it went straight to HP diagnostic tool which is now showing a message: "Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete" I did everything very carefully, following this video guide. Is this repair going to work or has something gone completely wrong?

[hijabhouse]

Did the same but my laptop stuck on "preparing automatic repair"

[seadogharris]

Excellent. Om a PC Desktop don't you have to into BIOS and designate the Boot Drive?

[SteveInterdonato]

Subtitles are in Spanish? Spacers are required but do not come with the drive? Where to get them?

[patrickoneill]

For Desktop users....Am I safe to say that WE ALL are adding the ssd and KEEPING our existing HD as well?? Want to make ssd my boot up drive, operating, etc, and keep old HD as general storage...thanks crucial....uugh.

[yjh]

I added a MX500 4TB SSD into my HP Envy desktop, but when I turn on the PC the SSD does not show up. Is there something I need to do ? Like partitioning, etc. ?

[transform_india]

This software is not detecting my crucial 1tb P5 ssd
Jave to use other altermative..

[rumaithahx]

What if my pc doesn't boot after ssd installation, 'no boot device found

[maheshgohil]

I just buy crucial mx500 SSD 2.5 for second storage buy my Acer Nitro 5 won't boot, it just stuck at black screen.if I remove 2.5 SSD it boot normally.what should i do ??

[lavitzslambert]

But what if I want to use both hdd and sdd. I can leave both right?

[ThatDudeDeven]

Man, I'm just trying to install this as a secondary drive and it is being recognize, but not picking it up at the same time lol.

[williamduplooy]

I had to find Software that worked, the Acronis failed to Upload after
Restart time and again, so I looked up a LOT of YouTube and other
Technical Advice and Guides before realizing I simply needed to find the
right Free Cloning and Partitioning Managment Software to Initialise my
SSD and then Clone and then Partition the OS Data...
A Huge amount of work because the Data SSD was not properly set up to
work with Acronis by Crucial...
It has taken me near 20 hours...

SATA to SATA Transfer without any need to by Adapters.