I'm parting together a new computer and the SSD arrived today, while the mobo, cpu, and ram will arrive tomorrow. As the title suggests, I'm wondering whether I can safely install Windows 7 on the SSD tonight, then install that onto the new mobo tomorrow and just boot right up.
Needless to say, this post is purely fueled by excitement to try out my new computer this weekend. Please talk me out of this if it is a bad idea or will simply not work. And please go easy on me, this is my first post and I've only built three computers since 2009.
Here are the specs:
My plan is to partition 100gb of the SSD for the OS and use the remainder to install particular games with high load times as well as Adobe Premiere / After Effects.
The parts I'm carrying over from my old computer are:
Needless to say, this post is purely fueled by excitement to try out my new computer this weekend. Please talk me out of this if it is a bad idea or will simply not work. And please go easy on me, this is my first post and I've only built three computers since 2009.
Here are the specs:
Asus Sabertooth Z87
i7-4770k
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16gb (2x8gb)
Samsung 840 Pro 256gb SSD <===SSD in question
My plan is to partition 100gb of the SSD for the OS and use the remainder to install particular games with high load times as well as Adobe Premiere / After Effects.
The parts I'm carrying over from my old computer are:
EVGA GeForce GTX760
OCZ Modular 750W PSU
1TB Western Digital Blue
500gb Western Digital Caviar Black (currently partitioned as described above, this is my current boot disk)
Optical drive
Antec 900
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