Reinstall Win7 on SSD or get rid of extra windows version?

Hi,

I recently installed an Intel 520 series SSD (180 GB). I got the hardware hooked up right and the drive is recognized. I have the SSD and two other physical hard drives in the setup. I did a clean install of Win7 and had some difficulty with my graphics drivers so I had to install Win7 twice.

I think I installed Windows7 twice.

When I boot up before I boot up the BIOS gives me two listings of Windows 7 to boot.

On my C: Drive (the SSD) I have a Windows.old folder.

Im using about 100GBs on my SSD and I think that there's picture and video that I need to store on the regular mechanical HDDs. I have a Users folder and a folder with my name David that have a lot of media (pictures and video on them). I use carbonite as an online backup and Im not sure if I restored these files to my Crive with their automatic restore.

1. How do I get rid of one of the copies of Windows 7?

I don't mind doing another clean install but I'm not sure what to do with partions, I really don't understand them or how they affect the SSD.

2. Is there an easy way to move the Users folder off my SSD and onto a mechanical drive?

Thanks I'm not super tech savy and any help would be appreciated.

You should have unplugged all your hard drives while doing the install to the SSD. I would do it again. You can use msconfig or easybcd to modify your boot screen. If you had windows on a hdd and installed windows to the ssd, that`s why it shows 2 on the boot screen. As I said, do it again, with just the ssd plugged in and delete any and all partitions it made during your last attempts.

It sounds like you didn`t do any research before you started.

I did unplug the other hard drives during installation.

I had previously installed Win7 on one of these other drives.

Then try my 2 methods, either through msconfig or use EasyBCD.

Check to see how many OS`s are listed on the boot tab and delete 1 if 2 are showing.

EasyBCD - NeoSmart Technologies

Please post back a screenshot of your maximized Disk Management drive map and listings:

1. Type Disk Management in Start rb: Search box.
2. Open Disk Mgmt. window and maximize it.
3. Type Snipping Tool in Start Search box.
4. Open Snipping Tool, choose Rectangular Snip, click New, draw a box around full drive map and all listings.
5, Save Snip, attach using paper clip in Reply Box.

Tell us what is on each partition.