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Adding SSD, keeping HDD: how to set-up?
I am eagerly awaiting delivery of a Crucial M4 64Gb SSD. I am adding this to my other 2 HDD's currently in my Media Center PC:
I am still a bit of a newbie with PC's, so I just wanted to check that I have the installation & set-up procedure correct:
- 250 Gb partitioned into C: W7 OS & programs etc & D: Music (iTunes)
- 1Tb Recorded TV & Movies
Any help gratefully received.
- Ensure I have AHCI rather than IDE enabled in the BIOS.
- Install SSD (does it matter which Port 0, 1 or 2?) & whilst still booting W7 from C drive, update SSD Firmware (if necessary).
- Clean install W7 onto SSD.
- Change boot disk from C drive to SSD in BIOS.
- Ensure all drivers are updated correctly.
- Install heavily-used programs on SSD (hoping to fit on: MS Office, iTunes, Kapersky Anti-Virus, Google Chrome & Media Browser). Will this all fit onto 64Gb?
- Back-up other data (incl. User folders) from C.
- Re-format/clear C partition. Is this possible without affecting the D partition? Am I better just deleting W7 on C?
- Change User folder locations to C & copy original data to this location.
- Install remaining programs onto C (Skype, MC Studio, MC Master, My Channel Logos, Guide Tool, DynDNS updater, Remote Potato, Connectify...etc.)
- Is that it? Will W7 automatically recognise that there are programs installed on two different drives?