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SleepComa

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I feel like this is all way over my head. I know you guys probably get this asked to death, but I feel that my situation is a little more complicated then the usual so let me try my best to explain. Here goes....


I am currently running Windows 7 OS from my WDC Black 1tb HDD, its almost full and I went ahead and purchased a Seagate 600 240 GB SSD and a WDC Black 2TBHDD.

What I want to do is this, I want to add the HDD and the SSD and have windows 7 boot from the SSD without losing all my data from the old 1TB HDD. Can anyone help me with this issue maybe step by step? haha I know its a lot to ask but I don't feel confident with other websites.

I would also like to add Steam to my ssd with like 3 games, oh and Battlefield 4!!

Please and thank you very much, First time poster but I always come here to read the incredible wealth of information! :)

Thanks again for your time.

-A frustrated noob
 
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RealBeast
Disconnect your HDDs and load your OS doing a clean install with just the SSD attached and your bios SATA mode set to AHCI, then reconnect both drives and install the programs to the SSD that you want on there. You can delete your Windows folder on the HDD later when you are sure that you have all the data off it that you need.

You can move your STEAM folder or just reinstall the STEAM app and redirect it to the folder on another drive by reading this thread and modifying in a similar way from HERE.
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Disconnect your HDDs and load your OS doing a clean install with just the SSD attached and your bios SATA mode set to AHCI, then reconnect both drives and install the programs to the SSD that you want on there. You can delete your Windows folder on the HDD later when you are sure that you have all the data off it that you need.

You can move your STEAM folder or just reinstall the STEAM app and redirect it to the folder on another drive by reading this thread and modifying in a similar way from HERE.
 
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SleepComa

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Thank you so much so I did exactly as mentioned aand everything seemed fine at first but then I noticed I had no Internet connectivity so I then popped in my motherboards drivers disc (might of been the mistake) and proceeded to install all the drivers it installs. After it was done I shut it down as per requested. When I tried logging in again I got the BSOD!! Now I can't log in at all I get the BSOD every time before it loads anything.


So sad =*(

What do you think I should do? Sorry for all the grammatical and punctuation mistakes, this stuff always gets me on the edge.
 
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No problem, it happens. So to recap. You did a clean installation of Window 7, updated the bios, the loaded the chipset driver, LAN driver, sound driver, video driver, etc. Then did your Windows updates. Then you attached your HDDs and reinstalled all your programs, making the appropriate STEAM path change to the new game folder location.

Then you did what and got a BSOD?

If you did not get through the entire first process, you may need to start over with a clean install. Run memtest86 a free memory testing program free from HERE first though because it just may be that your ram settings in the bios are incorrect and are causing errors. Run it 3 or 4 passes -- any errors is a fail. You will need to check your memory settings in the bios and correct them (getting a clean memtest run) before the re-install since they would corrupt the install.
 
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