Hi everyone,
I wanted to give you some feedback about my Lenovo yoga 2 13 upgraded with ssd.
So first I bought a 128Gb M550 M.2 SSD from crucial. It cost me like 85€ (~100$ i think).
To install it, you'll need to open the back cover of your laptop with a T5 TORX screwdriver. There is 11 screws. After that, you'll need to separate the cover from the laptop very carefully cause it still remains some plastic clips between them. I used a credit card that I partially inserted under the cover and slid from one corner to another. You should hear a "CLAC" sound for every plastic clip you unlock.
Be very carefull for this part, plastic clip are very fragile. It took me almost 15 minutes the first time I opened it.
Then plug the SSD in its slot. You'll need a mouting screw to fix it. The type of screw is a M2x3 mm: 2mm width, 3mm long. Not easy to find at all for me, not even on my old computer, so i took one from the HDD.
After that, I put the cover back and went to the BIOS menu. The SSD was detected in the informations page but when I started windows 8, it wasn't detected in the disc manager.
After some internet searching, I find the solution. The issu was from the BIOS version. The one I had was to old, I upgraded it, jumping from the V1.03 to the v1.11 and then I was able to find my SSD in the disc manager.
The last step was to clone my HDD to the SSD. I used Macrium reflect free edition. Very simple, they have a step by step guide on their web site.
First you'll need to save your data on a external HDD and make free space in your HDD. Indeed, you are going to clone entire partitions of your 500gb HDD to a 128gb SSD. So if your HDD has more than 120gb, you won't be able to clone all those data.
When you open Macrium, notice that on the HDD, there is multiple partitions:
1- WINRE partition 1000mb
2- System DRV partition 260mb
3- LRS_ESP partition 1000mb
4- Microsoft reserved partition 128mb
5- the partition used for your data ~425Gb (contains the Windows folder)
6 & 7 - Lenovo partition for recovery or something lie that. (didn't figure it out)
Unless you want to clone the HDD entirely, their is 4 partition totally necessary that you will have to clone. Otherwise, your SSD will not be recognised as a bootable disc. Those are:
1- WINRE partition 1000mb
2- System DRV partition 260mb
3- LRS_ESP partition 1000mb
4- Microsoft reserved partition 128mb
And of course, do not forget to add your data partition (5) to clone windows.
Use the tutorial from macrium website to do it.
It took me about 20 min to clone my HDD.
And now, after having formated my former HDD, I have windows 8 and programs on my SSD and all my documents/music/photo are on my HDD.
It starts in less that 8 second, it is very stable, no crash for now, no problem of any kind. The batterylife don't seems to be decreased.
I hope my explainations will help some of you.
Good luck and enjoy.
MD