Need Help With 2 Drives Setup

[chris1622]

Ok so this is my first time doing any type of upgrade to any of my laptops and I am unsure about what i need to do as far as formatting windows on my new drive (250Gb Samsung SSD 840) from my old one (Seagate Momentus XT 750Gb). From what i understand i need to make a system image on either an external hard drive or disks and then insert my new SSD into the empty slot (I'm running an ASUS G75VX) and it will boot and ask me to install an OS and i will choose the saved image from my external hard drive. Which other programs should i be putting on this drive, if any? After this do i need to remove the operating system from my old drive to continue using it as just a storage drive and my new drive as the OS drive? If so, how?

 

[lonewolf7]

You cannot transfer an OS. Don't go with all the trouble. Do you have a bootable media(DVD/USB) ? If so, than put the new SSD into the slot, unplug your old HDD(750gb). Go into BIOS and set the SATA as AHCI(better performance for SSD). Insert the media, restart Laptop, it will give you a prompt "Press any key to boot from DVD" press any key and follow the instructions. That it, you installed a new OS.

If you want some backup from your old HDD, plug it back, pull the data out. If you want it as an storage device(with no OS on it), than follow the same procedure as you did to install the OS(make sure you unplug the SSD), in the drive partition window just format/delete the partition that contains the OS.

Now the SSD will be your boot device and the old HDD is for storage. Make sure that the SSD is the first device to boot in boot order in BIOS.

Good Luck.