Changing out HDD to SSD

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I have a Dell XPS 630i desktop from 2008 and would like to speed up my boot up time with Win 7 by changing my old hard drive to a new SSD. I will keep the old drive as add. storage, but will need to put the OS and necessary files on the new SSD. Am I looking at a very difficult situation trying to do this? Right now, after taking out about all startup apps out except for Avast and CCPort for Cisco, this machine takes 1:11 min to boot to PW stage, and an add. 3 min to become functional. Any help or advice is welcomed, thank you

 

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Finding out about these little gems, Samsung EVO SSD has let me update some older systems I was considering replacing. And when I do trash the old systems, I can pull out the SSD's and carry on! The trick I learned was to install the Samsung software FIRST, then hook up drive, that is where my experience turned a little wrong for about 8-10 hours. Live and learn, sometimes the best knowledge is learned the hard way.