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2011/02/25 03:18:43 (permalink)
im a newbie here and i just bought a 64gb ssd and was wondering how i would go about running my os on it and store everythng else on my original hard drive??
 
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    basicallyevolve
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    Re:need help with new harddrive 2011/02/25 03:24:23 (permalink) ☄ Helpful
    The best thing you could do if you already have everything on your Original HDD and just need an OS on the SSD then just go for it.
     
    You do not need to reformat the Hard drive if it is a large HDD ( 1TB drive). Just leave it as it is and all your files will be there to access and you can use your SSD as the boot drive and use that HDD as the storage drive. Just create folders on that drive and start saving!.
     
    Just change boot order in Bios so that your motherboard chooses to boot off the SSD and not the HDD first. If the room is a problem for you just pick up another 1TB HDD and move all your files over to it and then format the drive you have.
     
    You will be able to access all your files that are in your hard drive like an external drive or USB drive. You would just need to go into the Users folder and find your user name and through there you can access everything you need from stuff saved on your desktop to stuff inside folders!
     
    Then you would be able to have 2 nice big HDD's for storage :P!
     
    thats what i did :P!
     
     
    any other questions or was anything confusing the way i answered it?
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    Re:need help with new harddrive 2011/02/25 03:39:34 (permalink)
    awesome thank you...i do have a 1tb hdd so it should work nice
    thanks again!!
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    Re:need help with new harddrive 2011/02/25 05:01:47 (permalink)
    is there ne special way to get my computer to see the sdd?? i installed it and then went into bios and it didnt detect it so i reset and tried again.. i have power to it and the cables are plugged in good... ne suggestions
     
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    Re:need help with new harddrive 2011/02/25 05:29:15 (permalink)
    Try a different port, cable, and even power cord.  What motherboard are you using?  


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    Re:need help with new harddrive 2011/02/25 06:08:00 (permalink)
    firstbuild4me

    is there ne special way to get my computer to see the sdd?? i installed it and then went into bios and it didnt detect it so i reset and tried again.. i have power to it and the cables are plugged in good... ne suggestions

    thanks

     
    When you install.  Make sure you go into the Bios and change it to AHCI settings.  This will also give you an increased performance in read/write speed over the standard IDE.
    Try that and see if that helps.  Also, you could try pulling the cable for the 1TB out temporarily until the OS is finished installing on the SSD.


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    Re:need help with new harddrive 2011/02/26 03:59:47 (permalink)
    thanks every one for the advice. it was a bad cable got that replaced and set it to boot first and switched to ahci.. but still had to unplug the hdd to install my os again. but we are up and running
     
    thanks everyone for the advice
     
     
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