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x220 msata recommended upgrade procedure?
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 12:15 am
by rty1138
bought an x220 and want to install an msata SSD as the OS drive. what is the unofficial official procedures to go about this? there seems to be a lot of ways people do this. thank you.
Re: x220 msata recommended upgrade procedure?
Posted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 4:49 am
by ZaZ
If you hit the
Service and Support Training site, there's videos showing how to do it. The mSATA drive is not there, but the WWAN card is and it's pretty much the same thing since they share the same slot. On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd rate it about a three. I had a little bit of trouble with the WLAN antennas, but eventually got it.
Re: x220 msata recommended upgrade procedure?
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:36 am
by rty1138
sorry i should have been clearer. i meant the procedure to install windows. clean vs recovery, and the various steps to do so.
Re: x220 msata recommended upgrade procedure?
Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2011 11:50 am
by tongdakfiend
If I were you, I would just do a recovery with a USB thumb drive for the sake of convenience. The whole process of installation and updating for a mSata only took about a couple of hours and was relatively painless.
Re: x220 msata recommended upgrade procedure?
Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:35 pm
by rty1138
i don't have a large enough thumbdrive. i assume i can put the RR stuff onto a partitioned external hard drive and boot from there to install windows?
Re: x220 msata recommended upgrade procedure?
Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:01 pm
by tongdakfiend
Yes, there are procedures on various forums on what to do. I believe you just need to set aside 15GB for the partition.