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Are you sending the drive back for an RMA or why you taking out the SSD?
To remove the drive... disconnect the power supply from the PC & wall than disconnect all internal connectors and remove the drive. Install the hard drive, reconnect everything than reinstall windows onto the hard drive.
If sending the SSD back, I would recommend connecting as a secondary drive and performing a secure erase to clean the drive.
To remove the drive... disconnect the power supply from the PC & wall than disconnect all internal connectors and remove the drive. Install the hard drive, reconnect everything than reinstall windows onto the hard drive.
If sending the SSD back, I would recommend connecting as a secondary drive and performing a secure erase to clean the drive.
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Thanks Techmo. I'm actually not returning the SSD, I just want to check my original WD HDD Win7 install and back up my pic, etc. files to a external drive. I will then reformat the HDD for a storage drive. I'm just a little concerned about damaging the SSD. If there are any possible issues in doing so I won't. I think i should be able to do this right?
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You should be able to just swap drives, as long as both have a copy of Win 7 (yes). The only thing you might have to do is switch the controller back to IDE mode in the BIOS, if the hard drive was originally setup that way over AHCI.
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