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    Buying a new SSD, fitting it, and migrating Windows 7

    Hi,

    Just a few quick questions please regarding my (now) 2 year old FT03 cased PC.

    I have a single HDD in the case at present, but I'm looking to buy the Corsair Force GS SSD (240).

    Should I fit this inside the case; or does it sit in the small caddy inside the right cover?
    Are there any BIOS settings I should change or will it pick it up automatically?
    And lastly; if I want to migrate Windows over to it - any specific advice or shall I follow some of the examples on the internet? I'm mainly asking this because I think my current HDD has a recovery partition; not that I've had to make use of it (yet)

    Many thanks.

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    Re: Buying a new SSD, fitting it, and migrating Windows 7

    You can put your ssd pretty much everywhere, it doesn't matter. Mine just lays on the bottom of my case.
    No BIOS setting needed.
    Win: disable indexing, disable defragmenting

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    Re: Buying a new SSD, fitting it, and migrating Windows 7

    Quote Originally Posted by Oswald View Post
    You can put your ssd pretty much everywhere, it doesn't matter. Mine just lays on the bottom of my case.
    No BIOS setting needed.
    Win: disable indexing, disable defragmenting
    I've ordered an OCZ Vertex 4 (256) from <a supplier> - hopefully to arrive tomorrow.
    I think I'll go for a clean install of Windows 7; seems from reading that it's worth the effort.

    I've read something about AHCI settings (IDE or something related to this) - will check my BIOS tonight to see what it says.

    The case is a bottom to top arrangement rather than front to back; and it's quite small - I was just wondering really where the Scan team tend to put them in their builds so I can replicate this.

    Again - I'm pretty sure that my current HD has a recovery partition. If so; I plan to leave that intact and format over the rest of the drive when the SSD has bedded in for a week or two (I again am assuming I can dual boot the two drives, priority SSD, until then). If I do this; will I then always be able to revert to the HDD if the SSD fails, and recover a Scan windows installation?

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    Re: Buying a new SSD, fitting it, and migrating Windows 7

    Put the SSD anywhere you like. I've put mine in a standard bay with a little caddy.

    1) Change storage to AHCI in BIOS (dunno why you wouldn't be using this in the first place though)
    2) Unplug old HDD, Plug in new SSD to first sata port
    3) Install W7 64 to SSD from DVD or download as per above.
    4) Install all important system drivers (chipset, graphics, Intel RST).
    5) Open RST in system tray and check that disk data cache is enabled
    6) Check that Windows has correctly disabled scheduled defrags for SSD
    7) Run WEI
    8) Plug any other HDD in.
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