Hello AT geeks
I have a laptop that is under warranty. Due to desperately wanting an SSD over spinning rust, I chose to remove my optical drive and put in a caddy, thus preserving the 3 year warranty. The SSD is in, I booted through the HDD and initialised it as a GUID drive (as opposed to MBR). Created a full size NTFS partition (it's only a 128GB drive) without assigning a drive letter (thought it doesn't matter).
Now: how can I choose a drive when I'm booting from the recovery drive, to install Windows 10 to? I created the recovery drive (USB) when I bought the laptop using Acer's software. Went to "Restore from Recovery drive" and it simply asked me if I wanted a full erase or a secure full erase.
How can I install from the recovery drive to the SSD directly? I have too much on the HDD boot drive to clone it directly to the SSD, and it seems stupid to have to back up my data, use recovery for a fresh Win10 install on the HDD, and THEN clone it to the SSD before re-installing the other stuff.
I looked through a lot of pages before coming here, so fingers crossed it can actually be done!
Thank you.
I have a laptop that is under warranty. Due to desperately wanting an SSD over spinning rust, I chose to remove my optical drive and put in a caddy, thus preserving the 3 year warranty. The SSD is in, I booted through the HDD and initialised it as a GUID drive (as opposed to MBR). Created a full size NTFS partition (it's only a 128GB drive) without assigning a drive letter (thought it doesn't matter).
Now: how can I choose a drive when I'm booting from the recovery drive, to install Windows 10 to? I created the recovery drive (USB) when I bought the laptop using Acer's software. Went to "Restore from Recovery drive" and it simply asked me if I wanted a full erase or a secure full erase.
How can I install from the recovery drive to the SSD directly? I have too much on the HDD boot drive to clone it directly to the SSD, and it seems stupid to have to back up my data, use recovery for a fresh Win10 install on the HDD, and THEN clone it to the SSD before re-installing the other stuff.
I looked through a lot of pages before coming here, so fingers crossed it can actually be done!
Thank you.