Replacing HDD with SSD in Samsung ATIV Book 4?

[Dartulius]

Hello all,

So I just purchased a Samsung ATIV Book 4 for school, as I had a desktop that I built last summer, but wanted a laptop to take to classes/library for notes and such. My desktop has an SSD in it, and the laptop just has an HDD. I would like to replace the HDD in the laptop with a 64GB SSD and just use an external if I need more data space. That solid state in my desktop pretty much ruined me for mechanical drives haha.

I just need to know how I can go about this. I was just going to partition the drive to an external and create an image that way, install the SSD, and then copy over the OS. Will that work? I'm just unsure on getting the OS copied over successfully. Or if it is even going to be possible at all.

Thanks guys, specs below.


Samsung ATIV Book 4
i5-3230M
6GB RAM
750GB HDD
Windows 8

 

[JackNaylorPE]

1. 64 GB is too small ....even stuff installed to an external will drop stuff on C:\

2. You want to install Windows fresh to SSD.

 

[superuzzo]

Hi Dartulius,

I have an Ativ 4, too.
I'm wondering if you tried to upgrade your Ativ 4 hard drive with an SSD...did it work?

As far as I know, the Ativ Book 4 only supports SATA-2 SSD.
I'm interested in upgrading my laptop with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD, but I'm not sure it can support it or something similar

Thank you

Super

Hello all,

So I just purchased a Samsung ATIV Book 4 for school, as I had a desktop that I built last summer, but wanted a laptop to take to classes/library for notes and such. My desktop has an SSD in it, and the laptop just has an HDD. I would like to replace the HDD in the laptop with a 64GB SSD and just use an external if I need more data space. That solid state in my desktop pretty much ruined me for mechanical drives haha.

I just need to know how I can go about this. I was just going to partition the drive to an external and create an image that way, install the SSD, and then copy over the OS. Will that work? I'm just unsure on getting the OS copied over successfully. Or if it is even going to be possible at all.

Thanks guys, specs below.


Samsung ATIV Book 4
i5-3230M
6GB RAM
750GB HDD
Windows 8

 

[Valentin_N]

64GB is enought if only the necessary programs are installed meaning documents, pics and videos are saved on the HDD. You can make the internal HDD to and external HDD.

But you will need to reinstall window.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Since my 1st build in the late 80s, documents, pics and videos and everything else are were saved on something other than C:\ Never built a machine that didn't have a C:\ for the OS and other partitions or drives for everything else.

But I have had far too many users bring builds back w/ 64 GB SSDs when their owners refused to go bigger and now want me to continually clean the C drives. At a certain point it just becomes impractical. It's enough perhaps for a simple machine for going on line and simple office apps..... higher end programs from AutoDesk, Adobe etc, eat up C space with "common file folders" . Uninstall files, driver caches, etc grow and grow and do not often shrink when the game, program or hardware is removed.

 

[superuzzo]

Yes, 256 would be even better than 128, in fact I would like to go for the Samsung 840 Pro SSD.
However, after calling Samsung Support multiple times, they told me that only SATA2 SSD are fully supported by their ATIV Book 4 laptops. Googling for this information had produce no results, so I'm stuck now

(It's crazy how they don't really know if 2 Samsung products are compatible with each other and will work. Each time I called them, they had a different reply to my question!)

 

[hrcmrpink]

i don't know if the ativbook 4 can handle a SATA III disk but certainly its hm76 express motherboard can. have a look at this:

http/www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/performance-chipsets/mobile-chipset-hm76.html

 

[Dartulius]

1. 64 GB is too small ....even stuff installed to an external will drop stuff on C:\

2. You want to install Windows fresh to SSD.

64 GB is most certainly not too small, I have had another computer running the same thing and it is completely fine. Post optimization, Windows hardly takes any room. For instance, in the laptop I currently have, I have everything that I could ever want installed, being Microsoft Office, Adobe, CCleaner, AVG, Classic Shell, VLC, and even League of Legends, along with many saved word documents and PowerPoints; and am still only using 40 GB of my total HDD space. So no, 64 GB would be plenty.

And so I could install a SATA II drive but just not a SATA III? If that's the case I would still be willing to do that, but as stated above, it definitely seems that the motherboard can handle a SATA III drive, I would just like to know if anyone else has done it and gotten it to work so far.

 

[hrcmrpink]

dear Dartulius, do you think I'll be able to change the CPU in the ATIV 4? Did you take apart the notebook or just open the hdd-ram door?

 

[frank668a]

Hi Dartulius,

I have an Ativ 4, too.
I'm wondering if you tried to upgrade your Ativ 4 hard drive with an SSD...did it work?

As far as I know, the Ativ Book 4 only supports SATA-2 SSD.
I'm interested in upgrading my laptop with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD, but I'm not sure it can support it or something similar

Thank you

Super

Hello all,

So I just purchased a Samsung ATIV Book 4 for school, as I had a desktop that I built last summer, but wanted a laptop to take to classes/library for notes and such. My desktop has an SSD in it, and the laptop just has an HDD. I would like to replace the HDD in the laptop with a 64GB SSD and just use an external if I need more data space. That solid state in my desktop pretty much ruined me for mechanical drives haha.

I just need to know how I can go about this. I was just going to partition the drive to an external and create an image that way, install the SSD, and then copy over the OS. Will that work? I'm just unsure on getting the OS copied over successfully. Or if it is even going to be possible at all.

Thanks guys, specs below.


Samsung ATIV Book 4
i5-3230M
6GB RAM
750GB HDD
Windows 8

I did replace my ATIV 4 1TB HDD for a Intel 120GB 530-series SSD and seriously it is totally worth it. And I also installed Win7 instead of Win8 (I'm a Power User)

It's not that easy though, you need to go to the CMOS, disable Secure Boot, change the SATA mode to AHCI then plug an external DVD with your installation disc in... It's straightforward and my ATIV 4 (i5, 6GB) boots in 7 seconds.

 

[benboyduf]

Thanks for your comments. I am replacing a failed hard drive in my ATIV 4 with a SSD. Is there any way to install windows 8 via USB? I was unable to make a recovery iso before HD failed. I would download the iso a products key and of course the ATIV 4 has it on the harddrive.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Yes.... see eightforums install guide

http/www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html

 

[Crispher Gu]

1. 64 GB is too small ....even stuff installed to an external will drop stuff on C:\

2. You want to install Windows fresh to SSD.

64 GB is most certainly not too small, I have had another computer running the same thing and it is completely fine. Post optimization, Windows hardly takes any room. For instance, in the laptop I currently have, I have everything that I could ever want installed, being Microsoft Office, Adobe, CCleaner, AVG, Classic Shell, VLC, and even League of Legends, along with many saved word documents and PowerPoints; and am still only using 40 GB of my total HDD space. So no, 64 GB would be plenty.

And so I could install a SATA II drive but just not a SATA III? If that's the case I would still be willing to do that, but as stated above, it definitely seems that the motherboard can handle a SATA III drive, I would just like to know if anyone else has done it and gotten it to work so far.

I had just replaced my hdd with plextor ssd, now it works fine. But a SATA III ssd can only perform a transfer rate as SATA II ssd. It annoys me that samsung just wasted the SATA III interface the motherboard already has! I also wonder if someone has changed the motherboard connections to solve the problem.