SSD in old machine.

[Slade2]

Ok, I currently have an old redundant 60g agilty ssd that is sitting in the cupboard.

My upstairs PC is a pakard bell machine (I brought it about 4 years ago when I was new to pcs so forgive me for that)

I would ideally like to get the SSC installed in this machine if possible becuase I use this pc a lot to watch some movies/tv in bed.

with it being a factory made pc there is of course the recovery partition on the drive that being the old way I can reinstall the OS? I can create a recovery DVD but will that allow me to boot to set up the SSD?

Other than the above all I can think of is it possible to get a copy of the XP install disk from somewhere becuase I have a working serial of couse that the pc shipped with.

Probably a long shot I know I might just reformat this week anyway and see if its speeds it up a bit.

 

[Razor-BladE]

Iirc, you can't use the recovery partition to set up a new OS. I would just do a fresh install regardless, it shouldn't take more than half an hour to get it running with whatever applications you'll be using.

 

[wazza300]

plug both your packard bell hdd and your ssd into a third machine,use macrium reflect cloning software and do an identical clone of the hdd to the ssd,unplug them both and plug in your new ssd and use the old hdd as storage?

ssd should be an exact clone/bootable copy of the original hdd inc recovery partition