What order should I do this in?

Mucky_Pup

Mucky_Pup

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Hi,

Busy building a new computer, got three drives.

- New SSD
- New 1TB HDD
- Current 640GB HDD

The 640GB has everything still on it (Vista Home Premium 64Bit) I say everything, I've backed up all I need on an external drive, so it's pretty much just ready for wiping. Want to load Windows 8.1 onto the SSD, the 1TB drive is going to be primarily for games, and I would like to re-use the 640GB for pretty much everything else.

What should I do, would I load 8.1 onto the new SSD first, then connect up the 640GB and format (would that work because I'd imagine it will see both drives as C: and have some sort of conflict?), or boot up on the 640GB on the new computer and start the format process and when rebooting connect the SSD up as the primary drive.

As you's can guess I'm a little bit out of my depth here as I've always just only dealt with single new drives requiring a install/format, never had to deal with multiple drives, ones which are brand new and others which still have data on.

Any help is appreciated, cheers.
 
Connect the SSD only and then install Windows on that. Then connect the other two drives together, it won't see the Vista drive as C, it will label it as something else. Then you're free to format it.

As for documents, pictures, downloads, etc, right click the folder under the library list on the left window pane of explorer (be sure to expand it so it goes Documents -> My Documents), select properties, and then location, and you can then change it to a folder on another drive. This way it will automatically go to the HDD instead of storing on the SSD.
 
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