Anyhelp gratefully accepted, i want to try to avoid any problems when my software and SSD arrive, as my previous Vista upgrade was not straight forward.
Currently i have vista installed on my C: HDD, that was an upgrade licence from XP, but at the time it wouldn't let me overwrite xp as i had xp professional installed and my vista home premium apparently wasn't designed to upgrade from that
So I had to let vista create a new install and it set everything else into a new directory called win.old and installed vista in a new folder. So no real problems other than duplication on my HDD, i've since deleted the win.old folder and still no problems.
I've just ordered a 64g SSD and I want to install my win 7 upgrade licence to that as the boot disk, few questions come to mind:
Currently i have vista installed on my C: HDD, that was an upgrade licence from XP, but at the time it wouldn't let me overwrite xp as i had xp professional installed and my vista home premium apparently wasn't designed to upgrade from that
So I had to let vista create a new install and it set everything else into a new directory called win.old and installed vista in a new folder. So no real problems other than duplication on my HDD, i've since deleted the win.old folder and still no problems.
I've just ordered a 64g SSD and I want to install my win 7 upgrade licence to that as the boot disk, few questions come to mind:
- what order will i need to do everything in?
- shall i install ssd first and check it's all ok then install win 7?
- Do I need to format the SSD?
- will windows 7 ask me where i want to save it or will it just overwrite vista on the the HDD? in which case do i need to move the current vista win files to the SSD
- do i need to do anything in the BIOS to alter boot disk drive?
- Do I need to connect sata cables to a secific connector on the motherboard as the manual implies 1 &3 (red) for master boot disks and 2 & 4 (black) for slave data disk