Drive swap

simondjuk

simondjuk

simondjuk

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Ive bought a new 80GB SSD and was going to put it in my computer. Ive put Win7 on it already

I currently have a 500gb HDD with a lot of stuff on it like MS Office, Steam and other bits and bobs of software I use.

If I swapped them over and used the SSD as the main drive and plugged the HDD in as a second drive, can I still access all my stuff or is there some jiggerypokery I need to do?

Thanks.
 
Yes

The 500gb is the one ive current got as the main drive, thats got all my stuff on it.

The SSD has Win7 on it in preparation

My intention would be to use the SSD as the main drive and the 500gb drive as the secondary.
 
What I've done before is disconnect the old HDD from data/mobo and only have the SSD connected to data and power.
Boot up then connect the old HDD,go into the old HDD via the OS on the new SSD and remove and/or disable the old OS system files.

Basically delete the Windows folder from the old HDD if it's Windows that's on there.

Works ok if the old HDD is a SATA drive as they are hot swoppable I think but worth checking you can do that with your drive before you jump in.

I guess you could use diskpart to mark the old drive as inactive too though?
 
Thinking about it there must be quite a few ways to go about doing this but the first one worked for me previously and I'd have no worries doing it again that way.
 
Its a 80GB or close to it anyway. I know they normally arent exact.

Theres no way everything Ive got will fit. HDD is just under half full, a lot are Steam files.
 
Set the SSD as boot in BIOS and see if it'll start,I'd recommend disabling the original windows install though.
 
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