SSD Help part 2

jaackla · 10 Jul 2013 at 19:21

Okay well everyone helped me sort out the ssd so now i have the ssd working and im installing everything

but i took my old normal hard drive out so its not plugged it and that has windows and everything still on there so how do i go about formatting it and then havin it in my pc so i can install music videos stuff like that onit insted of my ssd

RJC · 10 Jul 2013 at 19:26

Plug the drive back in, but double check the BIOS boot order as it may put the mechanical drive first, once you have done this and your running on the SSD Windows will pick up the mechanical drive as second drive and should assign a letter to it (it may ask for a restart) once this is done you can right click the drive and format.

jaackla · 10 Jul 2013 at 19:28

were in the bios will it be? and also isit safe to have the ssd sitting ontop of the other harddrive as the wire aint long enough and i dont have a bracket to hold it in place so its just sitting on top of the other harddrive? should be fine right as my desktop dosent move

wazza300 · 10 Jul 2013 at 19:37

Don't format the old hdd until you've saved/backed up all your music/films/data from it

You can look in the BIOS and look for hdd boot order then set the ssd as first boot device or put it at the top of the list