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Advice and direction on installing OS on new SSD with multiple HHD's
I need to reinstall Win7 and decided to install it on a new 120G SSD and then use an exsisting HDD for user accounts and data. After spending days reading past threads and post on the subject I am still not positive of the correct pocedure to follow. I think I read too much.
This was my plan: am I thinking right or not?
1) I have full backups and images on (including Carbonite) on external drives
2) Format an exsisting HDD that should become future drive 'D' for user acct and data
3) unplug all existing drives and install new SSD
4) install Win7 64 pro from full install MS SP 1 disk using the TUT 'Relocate user folders during win 7 installation'. I'm not sure if I should keep the boot partition. I'll have plenty of room but don't want sacrifice any speed while booting
5) Plug in other exsisting HDDs
6) install programs to C, transfer/ copy data to formatted HDD which sould now be drive 'D'
7) Done??
Looks simple enough but want to make sure I'm covering everthing and in the right order.
Please advise
Ted