question about installing windows to ssd

when i did it i turned off the pc and unplugged the normal hardrive and just installed it on the ssd, then once installed i plugged my old hardrive back in and it worked fine. Can you explain what you mean by upgrade install?, usually i just see recommended or custom?

yeh just go on custom install then, also check that the sata setting are right for the ssd before you install windows on it!

oh sorry if it does say recommended then use that option instead of custom!

If you have only the target drive connected, yes....Recommended.

tbefore you install windows onto the ssd check the bios your sata type should be on AHCI this will give you a much faster boot time, but you must do it before installing windows

are you selecting the correct partition?, ive done this many times, look for the one with the most free space on then try that!

there should be a partition you can select where the total space is a little below what the actual size of your drive is?

OK.
That 100MB partition is a System Reserved partition from a previous install (or failed install)

Is the SSD the only drive connected?
If so.....Advanced, delete any and all partitions on that drive.
Install.

So the SSD is the only drive connected.
And you deleted whatever partitions are on it.
And you're telling Windows to use the entire unallocated space?

What are you installing from?

Hold on OP let me clarify;

Adding SSD requires a COMPLETELY CLEAN BUILD - all drives BARE. You can't install to just the SSD, add the HDD and then 'still have my programs'. Programs have little parts all over the HDD that are impossible to 'move' or 'repoint to' in regedit, so you have to reinstall every application. "What if I don't wipe?", well here is the BIG problem, the HDD is set as the BOOT OS. So when you turn on the computer and the BIOS says "okay who do I tell all this hardware info to" BOTH the HDD and SSD say "HEY ME HEY ME HEY ME HEY ME" then start to fight over who is in control. Many times this results in the "Boot Sector Damaged - Repair hit Y" and suddenly one of the drives tell the other one it is 'blank' and well it rewrites the Boot Sector and 'Wipes the drive' (really it doesn't but Windows never can get past this point even when trying to 'fix it') and you lose everything.

The process to "Add SSD to current system" (try Google sometime MANY articles out there on these things ya know) is to first have a external HDD, your copy of Windows, all your application CDs and the article on "How to move my STEAM games to another drive" if you have STEAM downloaded games. Plug in ext HDD, run Windows Easy Transfer to backup your data. Then follow the steps for STEAM to move them to the ext drive if you have room (you should but might want to consider how much you have BEFORE doing any of this). Now download and create a DBAN CD to wipe the HDD and set it as a bare drive.

Install SSD, boot from Windows DVD, install Windows. Download all Patches and Options except BING, repeat till there is no more Windows Updates appear. Download and run Slim Drivers, install all the latest updates but you don't need to reboot until you do the last update. Go to www.filehippo.com and download AVAST! or AVG then download and install Malwarebytes so you can scan weekly for malware (and you will need to scan after you restore your data to make sure you didn't backup any malware onto this clean system). Now begin to install every application BUT WARNING, as your SSD is LIMITED in space you need to ALWAYS MANUALLY tell the software to INSTALL to the C:\ (HDD) instead of C:\.... that it would do. Follow the steps for STEAM.

When all done, then run Windows Easy Transfer to restore your settings and 'feel' - reboot required. Now your back to as you were on a SSD, but now you need to do more management of the system. If this is a Samsung drive use the Samsung Magician to tune Windows to optimize the use of the SSD, otherwise look up SSD Tips and Tricks in google for the many articles covering this. As compared to off the shelf systems that include a SSD and preconfigured, you will have to do alot of the maintenance by hand

Well you mentioned 'UPGRADE', and that is only provided if it sees a BOOT OS already (the HDD) or a previous attempted Windows Install that failed, it tries to 'upgrade' the version to the version on the DVD.

Then sadly you will probably have a problem. This appears to be a Windows 7 UPGRADE edition, not a Windows 7 edition DVD. This means that you would ALREADY have to have Windows installed (say XP or Vista) to 'upgrade' to Windows 7. You can't install Windows 7 Upgrade by itself, it will refuse to install because the edition and key are not 'valid' without a previous Windows install to upgrade from.