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I am trying to add an SSD to boot, but it is more complicated than you think?
my situation is this:
I have been using a 1TB HDD for a while, and it works fine, it has all my stuff on it.
But I got a 60GB SSD to boot from. After installing windows 7 on it, and it booted up, none of my previous things are there anymore. The computer seems to have forgotten I had installed all sorts of things on my HDD and that I have installed my High end graphics card, it is using integrated graphics again. I know there has to be a way to have it boot, but still use my desktop, files and such on the HDD I have been using for so long. Both drives have Windows installed on them.
But here is the catch, I got the SSD to also be data storage for my mother. Nothing she uses will go on the HDD, only the SSD but I don't know how to do either one. The most important thing, is my first issue.
Additionally, according to a guide I found, I needed to use the SSD installation in AHCI mode instead of IDE in my BIOS, and it worked, but when I umplugged my SSD so I could go back to using my HDD as my standard boot and use all the data and stuff like I was before this mess. But it wasn't booting in AHCI so I had to cange back to IDE, I don't know if the SSD works in IDE mode though.
The SSD is a OCZ Agility 3 60GB drive. The HDD is a Seagate Baracuda 1TB.
At the minimum I want to just get the SSD to at least be only the boot device, but I want all my data storage, desktop and all my hardware to look toward the HDD since all my drivers for the grahpics card and my games, desktop and files are all there.
If you need more info from me just let me know and I can leave it.
1 Answer
- ?Lv 79 years ago
When you add a new hard drive or SSD which you use as your boot drive, you will have to install an operating system on it, on your case Windows 7, and then reinstall all your applications. The old Windows 7 installation on your old hard drive does nothing any more. The old applications only work with that installation of Windows 7, first of all because these applications refer to the old registry, second of all because these applications refer to files on this hard drive, but which now have changed drive letter. I do not know what gave you the idea that it would work this way, but I am sorry to tell you that it does not and that it never has. A new boot drive means a new installation of your operating system and all your applications, unless you created a system image of your old hard drive and would restore it on your new hard drive, but this is not advised for SSD's since they work different compared to hard drives. Make sure to use SSD Tweaker by the way to optimise Windows 7 for your SSD. The free of charge version is fine.