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Alienware 15x SSD Upgrade Options
I have an Alienware 15x from 2015 and currently running SAMSUNG SSD PM851 M.2 2280 128GB along with a 1TB drive. A search of product specs shows the SSD to be .... SATA Gen 3.0 – 6Gb/s (http://www.samsung.com/us/business/oem-solutions/pdfs/PM851-SSD-ProdOverview.pdf)
I am looking to upgrade my SSD to a 512GB preferably but 1TB will also be fine. I looked couple places and the same Samsung model in 512 gb is showing 3/5 star reviews. Anyone done any SSD upgrades and have recommendations for a good & reliable SSD?
Alienware - Rodrigo
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March 30th, 2017 15:00
Hi,
Please send me your Service Tag in a PM so we can look into this. To send a PM, hover your mouse to my username and select the "Message" option on the bottom.
Carbon Based Lifeform
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April 6th, 2017 14:00
the 850 EVos seem to have some problems with Alienware brand.
take a look at this thread:
no idea whats going on there.
Coolhip
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April 6th, 2017 14:00
Hey guys, follow up to my original email ... I finally purchased a Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD. I was looking to replace my original PM851 M.2 2280 128GB SSD which was almost out of space.
New Problem - I created Alienware bootable from Respawn for factory settings. Then I used Windows Creation Tool to create another bootable for Windows 10. I replaced my 128 GB SSD and put the 500 GB in. Alienware bootable kept loading but giving "error 0x4001001300001002". It said I should do a complete reset and it will delete all partitions. I went ahead and it deleted my C: (500GB SSD) as well as D: (1TB HDD)....but still errored out. I plugged back my 128 GB and re-formatted the new SSD, and both bootables. Recreated the bootables, but no change. The windows bootable also keeps giving me error about something called EFI being in NTFS mode instead of FAT32. When I checked, windows bootable is showing Fat32 and all SSDs & HDD are NTFS. No clue about the EFI.
I even tried using Macrium Reflect (free edition) to clone my smaller SSD onto the larger one. Good news - It cloned perfectly. Bad news - It ended up creating some PBR image...AND....if I use the cloned drive to boot up, it refuses to load and gives a blue screen with error - 0xc0000225. Back to the original drive, and everything shows up ok....the new drive is showing there, with all the cloned folders, the hdd is showing but obviously completely blank now...and that's that.
Additional problem, now when I run disk management, my HDD is showing a ridiculous number of partitions. (screenshot below) Disk 0 is HDD, Disk 2 is original 128 GB SSD, Disk 1 is new 500 GB SSD
I am not overly technical, so any directions in trying to help fix all of this would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!