Installation of windows 7 on a 3ogb ssd

hi all need a bit of advice on installing windows 7 on a ssd i have not got the hard copy of the windows just the recovery discs i made after it was installed on the wd hard drive(pc was preinstalled with win 7 when bought) a few months ago now, i no i can use the recovery disc to reinstall windows on the original disc i have if need be, can i use the discs and install windows 7 on the 30GB ssd? meaning i leave my hard drive as it is and use it for all my data and to install my programs on? i have looked at cloneing the old drive but i have so much data and programs on it i dont think i can
http://www.kingston.com/support/ssdn...tall_Guide.pdf

Hello mate.





I don't believe what you propose will work.

Though as you possess a Windows 7 key already that is on the COA sticker attached to the PC why don't you locate an installer and use the tutorial at the link below to create an all versions installer so you can use that to install the exact same version that is on the PC to the SSD; you have 120 days before you would need to activate the new install.


Windows 7 Universal Installation Disc - Create

Activation Trial Period - Extend Up to 120 Days

thanks i will give it a read bare foot kid, i think i jumped the gun a bit when i got the ssd and wasted my money, my original plan was to run the operating system from the ssd but having looked into it and the cloning Kingston suggests in there web site my hard drive has 148 GIG in use so i made a error on this project i will try and send it back i got it for just under £50 which was good i think. i can get a external drive with nearly a terrabite onit if i added £20 to the £50, that would of been better cant see the point to use it to just store 30GB of normal data on do you see what i mean? may as well send it back or put it on ebay!!

You could dual boot the 2 SSD/HDD 'till you can get everything moved around, then you could use the HDD as storage; have a look at this info for some ideas.

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The easiest way to do away with boot issues between 2 separate Windows OSs is to use the BIOS one time boot menu to select which OS to boot at system startup.

If you have 2 separate Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and have one or the other installed to one HDD and you want to install the other; disconnect the HDD with the first OS installed on it and leave the HDD you want to install the second OS to connected.

Install the OS to the connected HDD and when complete and the system is booting good, power down and reconnect the second HDD with the first OS on it.

This way the OSs will boot independently of each other and there will be no boot conflicts between the 2 separate OSs to have to sort later.

yeah i see what you mean did you have a read of this http://www.kingston.com/support/ssdn...tall_Guide.pdf

I guess I'll have to add the PDF reader.

could i unplug the main drive now and connect the ssd and use the recovery discs to put windows on the ssd?

Bare Foot Kid said:

I guess I'll have to add the PDF reader.

oh ok dont worry it just explains the way to clone the disk i will try to copy and paste some on this thread

The recovery disks bit is what I don't know will work, give it a go, the worst that can happen is a fail and then you could remove the SSD and reconnect the HDD again.

the discs have the factory install of windows 7 on what i made when i got the pc . so my theory was you could use them on any disc ?