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April 30th, 2025 11:15
Replace a Hard drive paired to octane memory
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Hi To continue a old previous thread, I appreciate all responses. However I have a couple more questions. Is my understanding correct, to replace the platter drive ,I need to to un pair the platter drive, ( using the Intel octane app, (than clone the old drive to a larger drive) and than re pair up the drives?
Is there a step by step page somewhere to help accomplish this? Is there any issues I should be aware of whilst doing this?
Forgive me if this is double posted. I replied to a much older thread and I am not sure if it could be seen as a new post
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Chino de Oro
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May 3rd, 2025 15:06
You can follow instructions from my post to unpair your old HDD prior to working on the upgrade and pairing your new HDD after the upgrade.
Chino de Oro
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April 30th, 2025 22:39
Assuming that your system is pairing a large capacity HDD with a small 16GB Octane memory, you can reset your HDD to non-Octane pairing. Then, replace Octane memory with an NVMe solid state of 1TB or more, and install Windows 11 operating system on it. During Windows installation, wipe your current HDD and use it for non essential internal backup.
At power up, continuously tapping F12 for one time boot menu. Select Device Configuration to see Intel RST interface. You can reset non-Octane from there.
Inside Windows, run Intel RST application. Select Intel Optane Memory tab to see drives and pairing status.
For more detail to access and navigate Intel RST, review this article https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000143589/optane-enabled-system-may-not-boot-when-a-hard-drive-or-optane-device-fails
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May 1st, 2025 10:04
@Chino de Oro G'Morning and thanks for the reply. If I am understanding your response, You are suggesting removing the octain modual and replace it with a ssd drive. Thats probably the smartest move, however finances dont allow for that.
I currently have a 1 gig drive and want to replace it with a 2 gig drive. Both are platter drives. The intel program reports the octain is 13 gig. Another thing I was trying to avoid was reloading everything. I was hoping to be able to clone my old drive onto the new one.
Any thoughts or direction on that greatly appreciated.
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May 7th, 2025 12:44
@Chino de Oro Thanks for your help. I wound up getting a ssd and got it installed with no issues. working great at this point