as soon as I put back my old HDD into its first bay and install my SSD into the other bay : the first boot is weird and laptop freezes indefinetly in the screen of ROG logo. Same story I put my SSD in the HDD bay, install went smooth and i was running fresh windows 8.1 (i just point out here that I used my already owned windows 8 serial key, just needed to tweak a file in the install USB of windows 8.1, its perfectly legal and easy to know how by looking in the internet). So I created an install USB from Microsoft website.

So I also abandoned this solutionģ- Then I decided to let go the recovery option of my stock Windows 8 and went for fresh install of windows 8.1.

So same I put the SSD into the HDD bay and booted with the USB but when i try the recovery installation on the SSD i've got an error message something about 'an expected partition is missing'. Of course I made sure before, using easeus partition master, to clone the recovery and restore partitions from HDD to SSD. So I abandonned using Backtraker.Ģ- Tried to create a windows 8 restore USB. And when i try forcing to boot from the key nothing happens the screen just go black for like 0.1s and then return to the same UEFI screen. SO yes i ll need to have dual booting at startup.įirst I already read dozens of threads here and on the net about cloning and restoring an HDD to another HDD or SSD and here is briefly what I ve done so far :ġ- Tried to use Asus backtracker v 3.0.3 on my new SSD (of course I placed the SSD into the HDD bay and put away the HDD), but when booting with the USB created with backtracker nothing happens and i'm sent to the BIOS UEFI screen. I ve just purchased an SSD with 250go (Sandisk ULTRA II) and would like to use it as main windows and for most demanding games, but i want to have both hard drives to run windows for at least a month to make sure everythings fine before wiping windows from the first HDD. I own a G750JW with a stock HDD of 750go and windows 8 (not 8.1).

Easeus disk copy does not see m.2