Bios showing HDD in windows bot priority and not SSD?

The conversion to GPT is normally destructive to the disk's file system.
However I seem to recall that Partition Wizard has a tool to do the conversion, but I can't recall if that is destructive also. Since you have PW you might check that out.

Another idea, although I have never tried this, is to make a disk image of your current System Reserved and C drive, then wipe the drive clean using Diskpart, then initialize the disk GPT (or use the PW tool with out the Diskpart part), then restore the image to the new GPT drive.

Using the Diskpart Clean command will erase the MBR file table, then when you hook the drive up to a PC running Windows you will get a window asking you to initialize it - either MBR or GPT. This whole process takes some time. Just converting the drive to GPT using PW would be faster.

kazuya2015 said:

Or should I just install Windows on hdd (no updates or drivers) then use PW or disk part on the ssd?

Or...
If you are willing to just do a fresh, clean install of Windows 7, why not just clean the SSD, Format it GPT, and then just do the fresh installation?

The create and restore a Disk Image solution was offered only in the case that you wanted to preserve the current installation. If that is unnecessary then it would be far easier and more reliable to do it the other way.

I also don't really understand exactly what is meant by "4. Windows Boot priority".

Re: the GPT/MBR issue. I believe you can convert (non destructively) to GPT but it appears messy to me and I've never wanted to try it. There is nothing wrong with MBR for drives <= 2TB. Your 1TB HDD seems empty so why not unallocate it, initialize it MBR and format it (NTFS primary). Then leave your SSD MBR.

mjf said:

I also don't really understand exactly what is meant by "4. Windows Boot priority".

Re: the GPT/MBR issue. I believe you can convert (non destructively) to GPT but it appears messy to me and I've never wanted to try it. There is nothing wrong with MBR for drives <= 2TB. Your 1TB HDD seems empty so why not unallocate it, initialize it MBR and format it (NTFS primary). Then leave your SSD MBR.

The machine won't boot because Windows must be on a GPT disk in a mixed disk system. Either all drives must be MBR, or the SSD must be GPT also.

You will only experience the Windows Boot Manager option (Windows Boot Priority) on a UEFI system.

kazuya2015 said:

just one question, when you say clean the ssd and re install do you mean just put the windows cd in and install like that?

No, you will need to wipe the drive to make it unallocated so that you would be prompted to initialize it GPT the next time it is recognized in Windows. You can use Windows DISKPART utility to do this task.
Alternately, you could use Partition Wizard to delete all partitions (deleting all data) and then convert it to a GPT disk.
Then you can install Windows from DVD or USB stick onto the fresh, clean, GPT disk.

kazuya2015 said:

also should I do anything to the hdd? safe to leave the partitions on it, EFI partition etc

You can leave the HDD alone. However, you should disconnect it while installing Windows on the SSD.

You will also want to delete the C: drive, Windows partition from that drive as soon as you are sure the SSD is booting and operating as expected. If you have 2 Active partitions and 2 Windows installations existing at the same time that could cause new boot problems.