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SSD w/ HDD - Windows 7 setup help
Hello!
I've recently completed my first PC build ever, coming from my beloved MacBook Pro. With that being said, I am as much of a Windows noob as can be.
Anyway, I have a 60GB Vertex 3 that I want to use strictly for my OS and maybe one game and a 500GB Caviar Blue that I want to use for everything else. I want Windows 7 to be installed onto the SSD and then for it to never attempt to use the SSD for anything else, unless I tell it to. As it is right now, programs are defaulted to installing on the SSD and even when I change the location to the HDD, a lot of stuff still ends up on the SSD.
So what I intend to do is wipe my SSD and HDD clean and start from scratch, the right way, hopefully with your guys' help. I'm thinking the steps to do so would be something like:
- Wipe the SSD and HDD clean, then unplug the HDD
- Install Windows 7 back onto the SSD
- Install Windows 7 updates and various drivers with the HDD still unplugged (or do I install the drivers onto the HDD?)
- Plug the HDD back in, format it, then proceed to move users and program files folders to the HDD from the SSD (??? - is this how you do what I'm ultimately trying to accomplish?)
The other thing I've been confused about is SSD firmware. I can't figure out which firmware my SSD has and I know anything but the latest has been extremely unstable. If I can somehow find out which version I have and it's not the latest, how do I go about updating it? I know it doesn't work when you have an OS installed on the SSD. Does that mean before I do the four steps above I should install Windows onto my HDD so I can update the firmware on my SSD? Or is there another way to do it?
All the help I can get would be greatly appreciated!