Recent content by ChrisLPlumb

Sooo, 3 hard drives? I neglected to mention that this is a laptop I'm talking about. While it's an unusually heavy-duty laptop, I don't think it has any room / ports for a third drive.

Okay, I like the sound of that. Trying to work out the logistics though. Did I mention that it's a (very non-portable) custom-built laptop? I wouldn't be able to simultaneously connect the HDD and the new SSD in order to perform a clone (the OS SSD would have to stay put, after all). I think I'd...

I suppose you're right. I guess what I could do is swap my HDD for a big SSD, rather than swapping the SSD with the OS on it for another SSD. I could install stuff on the big SSD the same way that I've been installing stuff on the big HDD. Only thing is that I'd probably have to uninstall...

Hmmm, well to be honest my plan was always to use the HDD for programs. I just wanted the OS on a SSD so that it would boot faster. I didn't think I'd really have to put much else on the SSD. It sounds kind of awkward to swap in a new SSD. How exactly would I do that without messing up my OS...

Thanks for all the advice, folks!

Right. I've never done it before so I wouldn't know, but I'll take your word for it. Would you say that installing the OS on a 120GB SSD was a bad idea? I guess I'll just have to avoid programs that need to be on the OS drive (or partly on the OS drive, at least) as much as I can.

Well actually, it'd probably be better to replace my HDD with a much bigger SSD, and then keep the OS stuff on the current SSD, while putting games on the new SSD. On the other hand, I probably won't bother because you're all saying that it won't make a difference when it comes to game...

Oh, okay. I didn't realize that. Well I'm not trying to make my computer perform faster, I was just assuming that a game might perform better if it was on an SSD. I don't really care if the OS isn't as quick. But, I guess I didn't realize that installing games on SSDs only really makes the...

Right... Would it not be possible to create a partition on the HDD that matches the size of the SSD and then clone the SSD to that volume? And yes, I'm aware of the common files thing. It's actually caused some trouble before. I tried to install Chrome onto the HDD, but it messed up the updates...

Currently, Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate is installed on, and boots from, my machine's SSD drive, but I want to use that drive for installing games instead (there's not really enough space on it for big games when the OS is on it - it's only like 120 GB). My machine also has a HDD that I use for...

Very excellent news. I booted normally having uninstalled Bullguard and did not experience any bluescreening! I'm logged in and nothing has happened so far. I'll be back if something does happen, but it's looking good so far. My only concern now is that installing anti-virus at all might cause...

Okay Bullguard is gone, and I uninstalled the EgisTec drivers for the fingerprint scanner via device manager. However, "Egistec Fingerprint Driver" is still listed in programs and features, and I can't uninstall it because it seems to open an INstaller to do so, and installers can't be used in...

Okay, so you think the best thing to do would be to just uninstall Bullguard (which I'll just replace with Avast or AVG) and the drivers for the Fingerprint Scanner (which I'll never use), as well as that BitDefender driver? (if I can find it?) Bullguard doesn't provide a removal tool. On their...