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Question

Need Help upgrading Sony T Ultrabook Hard drive upgrade

Feb 27, 2018 7:58PM PST

Hi everyone,

I have a sony t series ultrabook svt151a11l running windows 10 (free upgrade from windows Cool, lately my hard drive has been spinning hard and making loud noise esp during startup. My laptop has 24gb ssd (which in my understanding is a cache-only) and 750gb hdd (where windows is installed). I've been wanting to upgrade to ssd. Any idea if it's a straight swap, or is there anything particular that I should know before upgrading?

*Do i leave the 24gb ssd attached, and swap the hdd with new ssd?

I read in other forums that sony bios is difficult to deal with for this laptop.

I also would like to clone my hdd to ssd so i can keep the original copy of windows 10 currently installed.

Please help me as this laptop is my daily driver which contains important data for my work.

Best regards,

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STOP!
Feb 28, 2018 1:33PM PST

Backup what you can't lose now to a few backup copies. Only the very new or risk takers leave what they can't lose on one PC or a single backup copy.

After that, I worry you may want to have this upgrade done for you. The process of cloning your drive to SSD and swapping has many YouTubes now.

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thanks
Feb 28, 2018 4:18PM PST

i have my important files backed up. now is the part where i want to upgrade it. should i’m worried about the bios configuration since there’s hdd+cache ssd (24gb). What do i do with the cache ssd? should i keep it or remove it?

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I'd leave it.
Feb 28, 2018 4:31PM PST

Cloning the drive should be all that's needed then swap in the clone. If that fails I would unplug the 24GB then clone again from external to internal SSD.