Windows problem after new motherboard

[madtownguy]

So I just put together a Frankenstein build of an old crashed computer with new motherboard, and chip set. I got everything going and then had problem because Windows wouldn't repair itself, did some research on this site which is great it actually solved a few problems before this one, and found out I need to reinstall windows. The problem I'm having is I don't have space on the SDD and it wants to over write data that I really may need some day in case I have any legal battles. So I bought a new much larger SDD card to install windows 7 to hoping that it will somehow fix the bios or something so that I can go back to the original SDD card and save everything before I change the system to have one card for windows and the rest on the other card. Is this something I can possibly do? If it matters I have an MSI z97-g45 board with intel i7 chip.

 

[Tradesman1]

Yes, can also install the SSD in another computer and save all your data files using that computer. How old is the SSD? If it uses the SF 12xx controller it's not compatible with Haswell

 

[madtownguy]

Yes, can also install the SSD in another computer and save all your data files using that computer. How old is the SSD? If it uses the SF 12xx controller it's not compatible with Haswell

I don't see a mfg date on it. I purchased it close to 2 years ago. Intel SSD 530 series. Unfortunately every other computer is a laptop, my only save concern is emails. I may just use the 180gb ssd drive to back up the files I can't risk losing and keep the larger SSD for everything else. I wish outlook had a better save feature than .pst that would make things easier on me.