In need of simplified install instructions for SSD (please read).

essenbe said:

WHS, just a curiosity question. In your Vista drive, the MBR files are not in the recovery partition? On my Dell the boot files are in the recovery partition.

In principle, the bootmgr does belong into C or as in Win7 into a seperate active 100MB partition. But I have seen some installations where it ended up in the recovery partition - but that is not the normal case.

Ted, LOL - I am so busy that I never got to it. But it never bothered me. This Dell box was a pain when it came to the HDDs. For one, they bolted the HDDs directly to the chassis - no trays. And then they fixed the wires so hard that you could not get them off. Plus it is a real pain to get to the mobo and change the ports. That was my first and last Dell.

My Dell looked like his vista disk except the recovery partition was labled D and was the active partition. I used your tutorial, wiped the disk clean and did a clean install.

whs said:

Ted, LOL - I am so busy that I never got to it. But it never bothered me. This Dell box was a pain when it came to the HDDs. For one, they bolted the HDDs directly to the chassis - no trays. And then they fixed the wires so hard that you could not get them off. Plus it is a real pain to get to the mobo and change the ports. That was my first and last Dell.

As it's already Disk 0 all that would need done is to expand the OEM partition to at least 200MB using the Partition Wizard boot disk and mark it Active and do at least 3 separate startup repairs to (re)create the "System" boot files to that location and mark the other(s) as Inactive and that would sort it.

Bare Foot Kid said:

whs said:

Ted, LOL - I am so busy that I never got to it. But it never bothered me. This Dell box was a pain when it came to the HDDs. For one, they bolted the HDDs directly to the chassis - no trays. And then they fixed the wires so hard that you could not get them off. Plus it is a real pain to get to the mobo and change the ports. That was my first and last Dell.

As it's already Disk 0 all that would need done is to expand the OEM partition to at least 200MB using the Partition Wizard boot disk and mark it Active and do at least 3 separate startup repairs to (re)create the "System" boot files to that location and mark the other(s) as Inactive and that would sort it.

Yeah, that would be one way. But I would rather move it to the Win7 C partition on the SSD. Disk0 is just another HDD and that OEM partition is some Dell tools partition. One day when I have nothing else to do (and I find my installation disk) I will get to it.

whs said:

Bare Foot Kid said:

whs said:

Ted, LOL - I am so busy that I never got to it. But it never bothered me. This Dell box was a pain when it came to the HDDs. For one, they bolted the HDDs directly to the chassis - no trays. And then they fixed the wires so hard that you could not get them off. Plus it is a real pain to get to the mobo and change the ports. That was my first and last Dell.

As it's already Disk 0 all that would need done is to expand the OEM partition to at least 200MB using the Partition Wizard boot disk and mark it Active and do at least 3 separate startup repairs to (re)create the "System" boot files to that location and mark the other(s) as Inactive and that would sort it.

Yeah, that would be one way. But I would rather move it to the Win7 C partition on the SSD. Disk0 is just another HDD and that OEM partition is some Dell tools partition. One day when I have nothing else to do (and I find my installation disk) I will get to it.

Hello Wolfgang, if it ain't broke don't fix it eh!

You can use Ted's tutorial to reinstall. However, your SSD is new and I would not use the 'Clean All' command, just use clean and follow the rest.

theog said:

Drunk Dell Tech Repairs Laptop With Hammer - The Consumerist

theog, that's pretty funny. But, I have threatned to do that with my Dell on occasion. The way they build computers should be illegal.

Bret, I just did my usb drive to serve as an example. The only difference is you will only have 1 disk and it should be disk 0. You put disk 0 where I put disk 4.


Push enter, exit enter exit enter and you will be back at the language screen. then install as usual.