First ssd installation procedure ?

Hello Vale,

Yep, you would do the same as if it was a HDD. One thing to check is to make sure that you have AHCI/SATA enabled in your BIOS for the best performance. This would be the same for any SATA hard drive (HDD/SSD) though.

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

This is a 6Gb device. If you have any 6Gb port on the mobo, use that. Keep all disks disconnected whilst you install Win7 on the SSD. Here are a few more tips (even if you do not transfer the OS):

SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System

I would first predefine an active, aligned, primary partition on the SSD and install into that. Gets you away from the dreaded 100MB system partition and makes imaging later a lot easier.

Vale said:

Thanks also whs...but.....

"I would first predefine an active, aligned, primary partition on the SSD and install into that. Gets you away from the dreaded 100MB system partition and makes imaging later a lot easier."

That just lost me

Just run these cmd commands for your SSD and direct the installer to that partition. It is all explained in the tutorial I linked.

Diskpart
List disk
Select disk n (where n is the number that was given for your SSD in List disk)
Clean
Create partition primary align=1024
Format fs=ntfs quick
Active
Exit

Vale said:

Ah..so do i understand that as..plug the ssd in while W7 premium is working on an existing HDD and do the diskpart from there... ? then unplug all drives, plug the SSD into sata1 and install my W7 Pro on the newly created partition ?
Sorry mate, i did warn you i am a noob

Yes, that's it. When you want to boot from the SSD, you will have to change the bootorder in the BIOS.

Vale said:

just to clarify...the drive i have alreadly with W7 home prem on it will be used for storage only and the ssd will be the new main drive with a new os on it

Once you got the OS on the SSD running, come back. Then we'll discuss how you can cleanup the HDD and best use it for data storage.