On install it says "Where do you want to install Windows?" Why don't I see two partitions; one large for the HDD and one small for the SSD?
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You know i had that same doubt when i installed for the first time, i thought i'd actually see the SDD partition. But thats now how the SHDD works, you don't see the SDD partition, the hard drive chooses by itself what data is going to be recorded on the SDD part, and you don't actually have access to it.
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to you it looks like 1 drive. The firmware on the drive uses the ssd for the most active files. you don't control that. format the partition and load your os. i think you will like it! I am really very happy with the performance; it is very smooth and very consistent.
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Mine came with two physical SSD drives and one physical hard drive. They split the hard drive into two logical drives. So you start out with 4 logical drives.I logically combined the two SSD drives into one and removed the partitioning of the hard drive (folk on the ASUS forum told me how to do that). For that matter, I replaced the original 5400 rpm hard drive with a snappier 7200 rpm drive. So at this time my machine has only two logical drives - I like it better that way.HTH
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Hello Pedro, you can install any current SSD size, I would recommend 128 or 256 GB better, thanks.
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You need to initialize the disk first. Just search for the topic "initialize new disk" for your OS and you will get instructions. Very simple. Then you can use disk management to set up partitions and format for use.
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When I used the software that came with the SSD, it only copied the data. You can set up a second partition with a partition program after your done.
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Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
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I'm not sure. That might be needed. I still haven't been able to get mine to work in either drive yet.
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I have this disk and I was able to download both. I can't remember if I had to download one and then the other or if they downloaded together. but I have both downloaded. I'm sorry but I don't have any solution at this time.
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You should have no problem with this HD. You may wish to partition it though.
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If you are running the default windows install, it has another partition of about 24GB for recovery and swap and things like that, so that's your 104GB. The rest of the 35GB I assume is all the files that windows needs to work, all the applications and overhead. Don't forget there is a microsd slot, that's another 64GB for $50.
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Yes you're gonna need to install win8 on the SSD, because the system came with windows installed already. Now the new thing with systems with win8 pre-installed is that the key isn't shown as in win7. So nope there isn't any product key attached. But another option would be to use an imaging software like "acronis" to image the win8 pre-installed. Once you're done with that, you can copy that image to the SSD. This process doesn't need a product key. Hope this helps.
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You can..bit you will be better of if you install windows and your most common used applications either on an internal SSD (best option) or an external flash drive. The system will be faster this way, and you can use your external 2TB for storing everything else.
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You should probably not buy this when you're asking that question! This machine needs RAM and HDD installed separatly, and I doubt you are qualified...no disrespect intended ;-)But yes, you can install it after Windows is installed (which does not come included).
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I ordered mine installed with Windows 7 ("downgrade" option). It came with disks for both operating systems and (I think) disks for recovering both operating systems.
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small ssd is used for intel rapaid start technology&#65292;no for installing windows system and startup drive.it's too small.if you want do like that you should change a bigger one.now, you can install games in that ssd,it's fast.
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OS is installed on SSD drive, I removed the 750 drive and replaced with 256G SSD. I did not raid the drives since I want to run games from the 256 SSD and keep OS and other programs on the 128SSD.
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I too was looking for a bracket of some kind. Not so.There are simply two locations, one on the bottom of the case and one on the motherboard plate that are simply four holes that match up to an SSD and hold the drive sightly offset with a small air space below.