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Post by Lighthouse on May 29, 2014 7:47:29 GMT
OK. You have several options. Wipe the disk completely, and use part of it for imaging the SSD. Leave as is, and in an emergency use it to boot from BIOS. But note, it will not have any new Windows Updates on it. Wipe the disk completely, and use for data storage, and use an external drive for imaging.
How big is the SSD btw ?
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Post by irvsp on May 29, 2014 11:59:49 GMT
I have a laptop which came with 2x500gb HDD's I took one out and replaced it with a SSD put W7 on the SSD and everything is fine I am going to put the removed HDD back in via the DVD slot the thing is, this HDD has W7 installed by the same machine shall I wipe the HDD before connecting or does it not matter? There IS a small possibility of a problem. Depends on HOW you had made the SSD OS. Not insurmountable, but a problem none the less. Once I used Norton Ghost to create the saved OS on the SSD. In that case I had the mechanical drive imaged via Ghost and added the SSD, wrote the Image to the SSD, changed the drive boot order in BIOS. System refused to boot, claimed I had duplicate disks attached. Disconnected the original C: drive (that had a logical as well) and the system booted. Error message helped figure it out though, it mentioned Drive ID. Turns out the cloning from Ghost wrote the boot sector and it had the same Drive ID. Had to edit it on disk, just changed one number, and all was good. If you did a clean install with Vendor supplied disks, it might write the same ID to all disks and partitions though. My last 2 SSD clones however DID not have this problem as the s/w (even Norton's) was smart enough to change the data when cloning.
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Post by greebal on May 29, 2014 22:12:56 GMT
OK. You have several options. Wipe the disk completely, and use part of it for imaging the SSD. Leave as is, and in an emergency use it to boot from BIOS. But note, it will not have any new Windows Updates on it. Wipe the disk completely, and use for data storage, and use an external drive for imaging. How big is the SSD btw ? The SSD is 128gb Samsung 840 pro.
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Post by greebal on May 29, 2014 23:14:13 GMT
I have a laptop which came with 2x500gb HDD's I took one out and replaced it with a SSD put W7 on the SSD and everything is fine I am going to put the removed HDD back in via the DVD slot the thing is, this HDD has W7 installed by the same machine shall I wipe the HDD before connecting or does it not matter? There IS a small possibility of a problem. Depends on HOW you had made the SSD OS. Not insurmountable, but a problem none the less. Once I used Norton Ghost to create the saved OS on the SSD. In that case I had the mechanical drive imaged via Ghost and added the SSD, wrote the Image to the SSD, changed the drive boot order in BIOS. System refused to boot, claimed I had duplicate disks attached. Disconnected the original C: drive (that had a logical as well) and the system booted. Error message helped figure it out though, it mentioned Drive ID. Turns out the cloning from Ghost wrote the boot sector and it had the same Drive ID. Had to edit it on disk, just changed one number, and all was good. If you did a clean install with Vendor supplied disks, it might write the same ID to all disks and partitions though. My last 2 SSD clones however DID not have this problem as the s/w (even Norton's) was smart enough to change the data when cloning. I should be ok reason being I have W7 hp from new on the HDD but no OS discs came with machine. I bought W7 pro and installed it on the SSD. I have downloaded the W7 hp with SP1 ISO as a backup clean install for the original.
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