Making the move to SSD

[Prophet187]

I've had some great help from you guys in the past so why not try again!

I've tried to go SSD before and the drive ended up corrupted. It can't have all been me as OCUK gave me a full refund after testing the device. Still paranoid though.

Currently just got a 2 TB Seagate HDD.

I've got a 480 GB SSD ready to install. I'm on Windows 7 Pro 64 bit.

I want to have the SSD with windows on it and some essentials, couple games etc and then have the 2 TB HDD as storage.

What's the best way to go about this? I'm not looking for transfer options as the PC could do with a clean out and fresh install.

I mainly want to know my options of getting a fresh install on the new SSD and a clean format of the HDD.

Thanks for reading and thanks for any help.

 

[pipson]

Since you have 2 HDD, back up your files into one of them. Install windows on a USB (http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool) ( or load from the CD, change the settings in bios to read up USB or CD drive 1st instead of the HDD)

Boot via the USB, format the HDD that previously had the OS - Switch off PC - Plug in SSD along with the other 2 HDDs, boot from USB install windows on the SSD.

Ofc if you have a windows CD and a reader, do the same process as you wouldve done it with the USB.

On the SSD you want windows, most if not all your programs and Games that you want to load fast on it, use the HDD for files/videos/music/documents and etc.

If you install a game on HDD it would not benefit from the speed of an SSD

 

[Prophet187]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I should have mentioned I Windows 7 on CD.

I only play a couple of games at a time on PC (clan life, you get moaned at if you're not getting the server going) so I should be able to run them from the SSD, it's a decent size I think.

Boot from CD
Format HDD
Turn off
Plug in SSD
Boot from CD again and install on SSD
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