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You need to pare down the contents of your boot drive to below the available space on the Crucial M4 so that we can clone it. There are people on the Lenovo, on the Anandtech, and Crucial forums who all have the M4 mSATA SSD 256GB working on the Lenovo Y580.Ĭlick to expand.OK, let's see if I can try to help you out a bit here.ġ.
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I formatted the drive from the command prompt using these steps:īios Tab 1 Information (note the M4 is listed)īios Tab 4 Boot (note the M4 will not show on this tab)īios Tab 5 Exit (I have tried toggling from Win8 to OtherOS)Īfter I format the drive I would think the BIOS would pick it up as a valid drive.
CRUCIAL CLONE DISK TO ISO INSTALL
Follow instruction until ask where to install your OS. Select the required installer drive using kb arrow keys. Press F12 or whatever to access the boot menu. Insert Installer (DVD to ODD or plug USB into port)ĥ. Start up and go to bios and set to AHCI and UEFI.ģ. (1) Tried Following LenBlazer from the Lenovo forum linkĢ. The challenge has been getting it to appear as a BOOT Drive. I can see the M4 mSATA drive in Windows8 and can copy/open files on it. I also tried cloning to the SSD (maybe I did this wrong?). I ran the DISK RECOVERY program and created both a DVD (less than 500MB) and then also used a USB HDD and did a full recovery (over 20GB). I booted to Win8 on the HDD where Win8 is installed (not the SSD). At this point I cannot even get the BIOS to see the drive on the BOOT screen but the INFO screen in the BIOS sees the drive. I was sadly mistaken that I would pop in the new HDD, the BIOS would pick it up, and I would use my Win8 recovery disk to re-install or at worse copy a CLONED drive over. Because maybe I am an idiot and missing something obvious-it has been a long time since I tried doing any of this.