Installing SSD / Win7

I have a 64GB SSD and I am about to install it.

In my machine now I have a 1TB normal hard drive, win7 64bit and some apps

I want to install win7 on the ssd, so I was thinking I could just take out the old drive, add the new one, turn on and install win7 with the old disk I have.

But what about when I try to use the old HD? I just want that for files etc and maybe software in the future. How will that play with the new SSD if it has win7 on it too?

Any ideas? Order in which to do things? Cheers

I’m not sure how well the old HDD will play with the new SSD , though one thing to be aware of is that if the license for Windows 7 is the same for both disks which I assume it is as you said “install win7 with the old disk I have” and it’s not a volume license then you would be violating Microsoft’s license agreement.

Microsoft see any hardware partitions as a separate computer and you may only install one copy of Windows on one computer at a time.

davgothic said
I’m not sure how well the old HDD will play with the new SSD , though one thing to be aware of is that if the license for Windows 7 is the same for both disks which I assume it is as you said “install win7 with the old disk I have” and it’s not a volume license then you would be violating Microsoft’s license agreement. Microsoft see any hardware partitions as a separate computer and you may only install one copy of Windows on one computer at a time.

Yeah thats what I thought, so I was going to remove win7 from the old drive and just use it on SSD . Then use the old drive for files etc…

Have you possibly looked into HDD cloning software? It’ll clone the current drive to the new drive then you could just format the older drive. I have no personal experience of drive cloning though so I couldn’t say whether it would work between HDD and SSD or if the genuine activation for Windows 7 would screw up.

Might be something worth looking into though.

Cheers, ‘cloning’ thats the word I was looking for! lol Been using migrating. I will have a look and see. Was hoping someone had some experience and could recommend a path to take. Cheers for the help

godonholiday said
How will that play with the new SSD if it has win7 on it too?

Last year I bought a 500GB Hitachi to replace my old Seagate, but it turned out the problem was with the PSU , not the HDD , so I kept both.

There’s no problem running two HDD ’s with Win 7 installations on both, I have the old Seagate with Win 7 on it and I just need to point to the Hitachi before booting.

I am not well informed on whether there is any difference with an SSD drive though.

Thanks CMT .

A little off-topic

I’ve had a ssd ocz agility 2 (60gb) that died after 30 days of use. I won’t buy another ssd very soon.

cippo said
A little off-topic
I’ve had a ssd ocz agility 2 (60gb) that died after 30 days of use. I won’t buy another ssd very soon.

To be honest, that sounded to me like “I bought a car made in Antarctica by penguins and it broke, so I’m through with cars”.

No offense if there are any authors from Antarctica.

@cmt

I was unlucky