Installing a new SSD

[feriner]

Hi all, I'm just sort of winging this installation of my new Kingston SSD, based on what I have read in the past, and reading forums now, I may have taken a wrong turn. I installed windows 7 on my ssd, and am planning on upgrading to windows 8, which is what my old HHD had. I read that I should have unplugged the HDD while installjng the OS, just in case, but I did not. I selected the SSD during installaton, so will this be a problem? Also, when I boot, it asks to boot from windows 7 or 8, even though I only want it to boot from the SSD, which as far as I know only has windows 7. Do I have to "turn off" the booting from my HDD, or do I have to delete a certain file for maximum effinciency? Thanks for any help.

 

[envy14tpe]

In the bios you should be able to choose boot drive priority. Select your ssd as 1st.

 

[Chicano]

In Windows 7 on the search bar, type "msconfig", in msconfig \ Boot tab \ Select Windows 7 \ and click on "Set as Default", and in "Timeout" type the number of seconds you'd like to have the OS Selection screen wait before windows 7 starts booting. If you don't want the OS selection option, type a zero 0 in Timeout, and whenever you want to boot into Windows 8, go back to msconfig and change the number of seconds you want the OS selection on display.

 

[feriner]

Best answer selected by feriner.

 

[feriner]

In Windows 7 on the search bar, type "msconfig", in msconfig \ Boot tab \ Select Windows 7 \ and click on "Set as Default", and in "Timeout" type the number of seconds you'd like to have the OS Selection screen wait before windows 7 starts booting. If you don't want the OS selection option, type a zero 0 in Timeout, and whenever you want to boot into Windows 8, go back to msconfig and change the number of seconds you want the OS selection on display.

http://www.michaeldolan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/msconfig-boot-menu1.jpg

Thanks so much, it only seems to let me set it to a minimum of 3 seconds, but that's good enough.

 

[Chicano]

Thanks so much, it only seems to let me set it to a minimum of 3 seconds, but that's good enough.

See if this helps you change the Boot selection timeout to 0 or at least 1 second

Speed Up Boot Time in Windows 7 By Changing Boot Timeout

How to Open a Elevated Command Prompt in Windows 7

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