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Some House Cleaning after Switching OS drive to SSD
Hello! New to this forum, but done my fair share of reading through everything this weekend! Looking forward to the help, thanks in advance!
So I recently built my first computer, with a 3TB HDD as my only drive. I haven't done much with it because I knew I was getting an SSD and didn't want too much of a headache switching to it as my OS drive, though it seems to be inevitable. I installed a few programs and started digitizing my blu ray collection. I just hooked up my SSD this weekend. Here was my process:
1. Disconnect HDD, Connect SSD (AHCI verified)
2. Clean install of Windows 7, drivers, updates, security
3. Reconnected HDD (both drives have bootable Windows 7 installs)
3. Transferred some data to the SSD and uninstalled all programs from the HDD
Herein lies my problem. It's a similar situation to this poster: Removing Win 7 from HDD after clean install on SSD though I'll try to do a better job explaining it.
Both of my drives have bootable versions of Windows 7 still. I'm prepared to commit to the SSD. I'm trying to do this as clean as possible, and I really have no need for keeping Windows on the HDD. I would just format the HDD, but I have around 900GB of video files I don't want to lose, and no drive large enough to store them on (I have a 500GB externall HDD as well). From what I read, simply deleting the Windows files is not sufficient. I believe the process I need to take is to partition my HDD, transfer the video files to that partition, and delete/format the rest? I just don't know the step by step on how to do that, although it sounds simple enough. Currently, my HDD is one large partition plus the 100mb reserve. Do I need to keep the reserve if my SSD also has a 100mb reserve?
In case that's not clear enough, my intent is to only have Windows on my SSD plus the programs I've installed already. I do not need anything on my HDD except for the 900GB of video files. Once my HDD is reformatted, I will go about determining what to have on my HDD vs SSD, but obviously the video files need to remain on the HDD. I can post screenshots if necessary, just let me know what you need to see. Thanks!!