How easy is to put in a SSD into this laptop?

Ladic said:
Can it be done?
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Short answer, yes. I'll get to the long part in a minute.

Ladic said:
and can I have both the SSD and HD that comes with the laptop on the laptop or it only have room for 1?
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No, the available options on Dell's website do not list adding a second hard drive. You could place the 1TB hard drive into a USB enclosure and run it externally.

Now for the long part...

Dell's recovery disks do not allow for recovery onto a smaller hard drive / SSD than what the laptop comes with. In order to install Windows 8.1 onto the SSD you would need to contact Dell support and request a separate Windows 8.1 disk along with a Dell driver disk. Once you have those two disks, install Windows 8.1, install drivers then run Windows 8.1 update.
 
The only way to do what you want is to get the 2 in 1 laptop drive that has 128GB SSD plus platter drive.

Many new laptops and tablets have the Windows key burned into the BIOS. you can download the 8.1 install disc. You will need to use a "generic" windows key to get past the initial install, but it will work after that.

You can also Linux "dd" command to just straight up clone the drive. Be sure to shrink the partition on the platter drive first so all data is in the first 128GB space.
 
Ladic said:
So I have a 128gb SSD, and want to put it into this laptop I just ordered.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-1...0055-4485850-be85cb0aad974988bb2b1b878acac7f2

Can it be done? and can I have both the SSD and HD that comes with the laptop on the laptop or it only have room for 1?

thanks
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I don't know about your particular model, but ...

We bought a Dell laptop a month or so ago. I used Acronis to copy the partitions to a smaller SSD and the system booted right up and ran.

Ours was an Inspiron 15 also.With a 1TB hard drive. Our SSD is 500GB.
 
I'd recommend an Acronis clone too.

Just make sure to clean up the disk first so everything'll fit.
 
AceGoober said:
In order to install Windows 8.1 onto the SSD you would need to contact Dell support and request a separate Windows 8.1 disk along with a Dell driver disk. Once you have those two disks, install Windows 8.1, install drivers then run Windows 8.1 update.
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Er... what? License keys for 8.1 get burned into the "BIOS"/UEFI as I recall. (yup, see here) Just download the drivers from Dell's site and reinstall using one of the 8.1 downloads out there. (as I recall, Microsoft offers ISOs somewhere)
 
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