• Installing Mac Os On New Ssd
• Installing Mac Os On New Ssd Drive
• Installing Mac Os On New Ssd Computers

As we know, SSD is much faster than traditional HDD (hard drive). It could take minutes to wait for Windows 10 going into desktop for a restart. On the contrary, only a few second is for restar on an SSD. Based on this fact, many users are upgrading their computer to new SSD and look for a way to install Windows 10 on new SSD. In this article, you will get detailed guidance on how to install Windows 10 on a brand new SSD in a few minutes.

Part 1: Preparation for Install

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2. This is a new machine and OS so I am feeling charitable. I don't mind the two USB-3 ports, I deal with the limited storage by having an external 6Tb disk. The price drop is a really good sign as minis were getting pricey.
3. A drive can be used on any type of computer - PC or Mac. But in order for the computer and drive to communicate with one another, the drive has to be formatted with the correct file system. This article explains about file systems and provides instruction to format a drive on Windows and Mac.

(Swap just means less used stuff is copied to the SSD to make room for the new stuff going into memory). 8GB of memory might have been fine when the GPU had it's own memory buy now it is cutting into program memory. In my late 2013 Mac with the Radeon RX580, the memory card has it's own private 8GB of memory and the system has 16GB. Linux and Mac OS both the system are quite stable to perform the regular task. Apple backs Mac OS, so it has a well-integrated system update process which ensures sound system stability and high performance. Linux distros come with various desktop environments depending on users need and demands.

SSD compatibility Check: The first thing is to check if the data port on motherboard is compatible with SSD or not. For old ones, mSata SSD is the best choice. For newer devices, NVMe SSD is more suitable nad has better reading/writing speed. After that, ensure that the SSD is properly connected to your computer with the relevant cables/wire plugged in.

Copy HDD Files to USB: Move the important files on current HDD to USB drive so you can copy them to new SSD after installation, including documents, music, videos, ebooks, program installation files.

Write down Windows license Key: After Windows 10 installation, you have to activate Windows 10 to unlock the advanced features. Fortunately, you can still use the same license key on Windows 10/8/7 to activate a new installation. Copy the serial number and past it into a text file.

Plug SSD to Motherboard: Take out of SSD from package and connect SSD to motherboard with proper slots. Also make sure there are at less 60G free space is available on that SSD.

Update BIOS (Optional): Your PC or laptop should have the newest BIOS release. Though it does not matter which slot the SSD is located, if your system instructs it should be in a specific slot position, (say) primary bay then that is the place for SSD.

Part 2: Download Windows 10 ISO

Before getting started with Windows 10 installation, you have to get a copy of Windows 10 ISO in order to make a bootable Windows 10 install USB or DVD. However, there is no direct download link from Windows 10 download page. There are a few hidden tricks to get the Windows 10 ISO file if you prefer to download the file Microsoft.com. Otherwise, you can use third-party tool like HeiDoc to download Windows 10 ISO.

Step 1: Launch a new tab on Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser.

Step 2: Now copy and paste the support site link of Microsoft in the address dialog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

Step 3: Then hit Enter. (Getting redirected is expected default behavior.)

Step 4: To choose the option of inspect element, right-click on the page. In case you don't get the above option, go to about:flags, browsing it from the address bar. You will get both 'Inspect element' and 'View source' from the 'context menu'section.

Step 5: Hit Emulation. Then modify the user agent string to Apple Safari (iPad) from the 'Mode'section. Reload the page in case the browser doesn't get refreshed on its own.

Step 6: Choose the specific Windows 10 edition as desired and hit the Confirm key. From the drop-down section, choose your product language. Hit the Confirm button followed by hitting the download button to initiate Windows 10 ISO download.

Part 3: BIOS vs UEFI

BIOS utilizes MBR (Master Boot Record) to store the details of hard drive data. UEFI, on the other hand, uses the partition table of GUID (GPT). The key difference between both the boot types is that the former uses 32-bit entries in its partition table limiting the entire physical partition to only 4. The maximum resolution of each of the partitions can be only up to 2TB. GPT uses 64-bit entries in the partition table which substantially facilitates the size support for larger hard drive possibilities.

BIOS functions by scanning/reading the first sector of the hard drive that has the corresponding device's address to initialize or execute code. BIOS also chooses the relevant boot device, which is required to be initialized for starting the system OS. As BIOS is in use since the very beginning, it is compatible to work on 16-bit mode, restricting the amount of code to a certain limit that can be read and executed from the firmware ROM.

UEFI works similar to BIOS but in a different way. It saves all the data concerning initialization and startup in a .efi file rather than the firmware ROM. This .efi file is stored on the hard drive within the EFI System Partition (ESP). This special partition will also contain boot loader programs for Windows OS version installed on the PC.

Part 4: Create a Bootable Windows 10 USB Drive for Installation

Once you have the ISO file, create a bootable Windows install USB by burn Windows 10 ISO to USB with UUByte ISO Editor. This third party tool lets you create Windows 10 bootable USB drive with just a couple of clicks. Besides the ISO burning feature, there are another 4 useful features for ISO tasks.

With the extract option, you can access and extract folders and files to the local drive of your PC. Again, there is a facility to Create ISO file from files and folders and backup your data to ISO. Then there is the Edit function that lets you add a new file, rename, or even delete desired ISO image file contents. Follow the below-mentioned steps to get the official ISO file for installing Windows 10 with Microsoft Edge's legacy version:

Step 1: First, download UUByte ISO Editor utility for Windows 10 and install it on the computer. Then launch it. Next, start the setup process from the main interface by hitting the 'Burn'button.

Step 2: Hit 'Browse' and choose the image path of Windows 10 ISO. Then choose the Radio button, 'Create A Bootable USB' (In case of using DVD/CD media, pick the Create A Bootable DVD/CD option). From the Partition, style select MBR and choose NTFS for file system.

Step 3: Choose the scheme of GPT partition in case of booting Windows 10 in UEFI mode only.

Step 4: Hit the 'Burn' button and your bootable USB will be ready within some time. Then detach the USB device from the system to use it for the latter purpose.

Part 5: Start Installing Windows 10 on New SSD

After above preparation, the final step is to install Windows 10 on new SSD. Please make sure SSD is recognized by the BIOS. If not, the installation will not start.

Step 1: Insert or connect the pre-created bootable Windows 10 disk to a PC with new SSD inserted.

Step 2: Modify the boot re in order to prevent it from getting started with OS that is already installed on the system. Usually set USB or DVD as the first booting device.

Step 3: Once the USB is detected, the Windows 10 installation wizard appears on the screen. Then follow the on-screen instructions to install Windows 10 on SSD.

Step 4: Once you are done with the clean installation of Windows 10, utilize your previous activation key to activate the currently copied version of Windows 10.

Summary

Well, installing Windows 10 on new SSD is simple by following the above steps. Hopefully, the above details will guide to from scratch to do a clean installation of Windows 10 on a new SSD. You will enjoy a smooth experience with the new device. And you definitely won't regret the time spent on the new installation.

When OS X shipped on a DVD a good number of years ago, you always had the convenience of a bootable installer—an OS X installer that could be used to boot your Mac if its own drive was having problems. But to install or reinstall a recent version of OS X, you must either download a non-bootable installer from the Mac App Store or (via OS X’s invisible, bootable recovery partition) download 6GB of installer data from Apple’s servers during the installation process. In other words, you no longer have the same safety net or convenience.

Installing Mac Os On New Ssd

Because of this, I recommend creating your own bootable El Capitan (OS X 10.11) installer drive on an external hard drive or USB thumb drive. If you need to install El Capitan on multiple Macs, using a bootable installer drive is faster and more convenient than downloading or copying the entire installer to each computer. If you want to erase the drive on a Mac before installing El Capitan, or start over at any time, you can use a dedicated installer drive to boot that Mac, erase its drive, and then install the OS (and subsequently restore whatever data you need from your backups). And if your Mac is experiencing problems, a bootable installer drive makes a handy emergency disk.

(OS X Recovery lets you repair your drive and reinstall OS X, but to perform the latter task, you must wait—each time you use it—for the entire 6GB of installer data to download. At best, that’s a hassle; at worst, it’s hours of waiting before you can get started.)

As with previous versions of OS X, it’s not difficult to create a bootable installer drive, but it’s not obvious, either. I show you how, below.

Keep the installer safe

Like all recent versions of OS X, El Capitan is distributed through the Mac App Store: You download an installer app (called Install OS X El Capitan.app) to your Applications folder. In this respect, the OS X installer is just like any other app you buy from the Mac App Store. However, unlike any other app, if you run the OS X installer from that default location, the app deletes itself after it’s done installing OS X.

Installing Mac Os On New Ssd Drive

If you plan to use the OS X installer on other Macs, or—in this case—to create a bootable installer drive, be sure to copy the installer to another drive, or at least move it out of the Applications folder, before you use it to install the OS on your Mac. If you don’t, you’ll have to redownload the installer from the Mac App Store before you can use the instructions below.

Installing Mac Os On New Ssd Computers

What you need

To create a bootable El Capitan installer drive, you need the El Capitan installer from the Mac App Store and a Mac-formatted drive that’s big enough to hold the installer and all its data. This can be a hard drive, a solid-state drive (SSD), a thumb drive, or a USB stick—an 8GB thumb drive is perfect. Your drive must be formatted as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume with a GUID Partition Table. (Follow this tutorial to properly format the drive if you’re using OS X Yosemite or older. If you’re using OS X El Capitan, use these instructions.)

Your OS X user account must also have administrator privileges.

Apple’s gift: createinstallmedia

In my articles on creating a bootable installer drive for older versions of OS X, I provided three, or even four, different ways to perform the procedure, depending on which version of OS X you were running, your comfort level with Terminal, and other factors. That approach made sense in the past, but a number of the reasons for it no longer apply, so this year I’m limiting the instructions to a single method: using OS X’s own createinstallmedia tool.

Starting with Mavericks, the OS X installer hosts a hidden Unix program called createinstallmedia specifically for creating a bootable installer drive. Using it requires the use of Terminal, but createinstallmedia works well, it’s official, and performing the procedure requires little more than copying and pasting.

The only real drawback to createinstallmedia is that it doesn’t work under OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard—it requires OS X 10.7 Lion or later. Though it’s true that some Macs still running Snow Leopard can upgrade to El Capitan, I think it’s safe to assume that most people installing OS X 10.11 will have access to a Mac running 10.7 or later.

(If you absolutely refuse to go near Terminal, an El Capitan-compatible version of DiskMaker X is now available, although I haven’t yet had the chance to test it.)

Making the installer drive

1. Connect to your Mac a properly formatted 8GB (or larger) drive, and rename the drive Untitled. (The Terminal commands I provide here assume that the drive is named Untitled. If the drive isn’t named Untitled, the procedure won’t work.)
2. Make sure the El Capitan installer (or at least a copy of it), called Install OS X El Capitan.app, is in its default location in your main Applications folder (/Applications).
3. Select the text of the following Terminal command and copy it. Note that the window that displays the command scrolls to the right.
4. Launch Terminal (in /Applications/Utilities).
5. Warning: This step will erase the destination drive or partition, so make sure that it doesn’t contain any valuable data. Paste the copied command into Terminal and press Return.
6. Type your admin-level account password when prompted, and then press Return.
7. You may see the message “To continue we need to erase the disk at /Volumes/Untitled. If you wish to continue type (Y) then press return:” If so, type the letter Y and then press Return. If you don’t see this message, you’re already set.

The Terminal window displays createinstallmedia’s progress as a textual representation of a progress bar: Erasing Disk: 0%… 10 percent…20 percent… and so on. You also see a list of the program’s tasks as they occur: Copying installer files to disk…Copy complete.Making disk bootable…Copying boot files…Copy complete. The procedure can take as little as a couple minutes, or as long as 20 to 30 minutes, depending on how fast your Mac can copy data to the destination drive. Once you see Copy Complete. Done., as shown in the screenshot above, the process has finished.

Createinstallmedia will have renamed your drive from Untitled to Install OS X El Capitan. You can rename the drive (in the Finder) if you like—renaming it won’t prevent it from working properly.

Booting from the installer drive

You can boot any El Capitan-compatible Mac from your new installer drive. First, connect the drive to your Mac. Then, restart your Mac (or, if it’s currently shut down, start it up) while holding down the Option key. When OS X’s Startup Manager appears, select the installer drive and then click the arrow below it to proceed with startup. (Alternatively, if your Mac is already booted into OS X, you may be able to choose the installer drive in the Startup Disk pane of System Preferences, and then click restart. However, sometimes OS X installer drives don’t appear in the Startup Disk window.)

Once booted from your installer drive, you can perform any of the tasks available from the OS X installer’s special recovery and restore features. In fact, you’ll see the same OS X Utilities screen you get when you boot into OS X Recovery—but unlike with recovery mode, your bootable installer includes the entire installer.