Reusing a master HDD with corrupt OS as a slave...couple questions!

The reason UAC is important for all but the most experienced users is if a rogue infection tries to run something you will be prompted with UAC and hopefully notice that something is running that you didn't initiate.

As I said, Once the install is done and setup the way you like it, you can turn it back on.

That's fine. I was just sharing how I learned the hard way not to turn off friends' and family's UAC and stopped offering it as an option here.

So far, so good--my husband's OEM disc worked just fine, and we're currently--slowly--taking care of the updates. We've already witnessed the dramatic startup speed of the SSD; way awesome!

whs said:

3. I move all user files (Documents, Pictures, Music and Videos) to the HDD. The best way is to make new folders on the HDD with those respective names and move your stuff into the respective folders. Then you right click on each folder and INCLUDE it into the repective library.

By clicking include, does it make a copy on the SSD and the HDD? Or does that just re-designate where to send the files to (in this case, the HDD instead of the SSD)?

Once you copy your User folders from backup onto the HD, rightclick each to include in the related Library - Include a Folder - Windows 7 Forums.

Keep the empty User folder on C in the same library so you can see if anything is written there and simply drag it over to D.

I think we've applied all/most of everyone's suggestions. We still need to reformat my old hard drive today.

The latest head scratcher is that sometimes when we restart, we get an error message. On the 'Loading Operating System...' screen, it sits there for a good 5-10 seconds and then gives the message:

A disk read error occurred
Pres Ctrl+Alt+Del to Restart

On the last restart we just did, this happened two times in a row. Anyone have any ideas what might be causing that?

whs said:

Do you get that message when you boot from the SSD.

Yes. We don't even have the old HDD installed back in yet.