Hard Drive installation (SSD & Standard at same time)

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huliogeordio

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Ive just ordered a Samsung 840 EVO 250GB and WD - 2TB Desktop SATA to hopefully solve my random boot issues. These will be replacing the terrible ocz vertex2 and a Samsung 1tb after advice in a previous thread
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1804730/boot-issues-ocz-vertex2.html

Would anyone be able to let me know which way to go about swapping them if any order would be preferable and anything to look out for. I know these will come without cables so I have 2 sata3 cables spare but unsure if I need to grab some power cables for the corsair 600 3xs integra power supply. I also grabbed a mounting rack for the SSD. (if someone wouldnt mind explaining modullar and non modullar for the PSU I'm a little confused)

With the SSD I grabbed http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005OMXBN2/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i03?ie=UTF8&psc=1 to help with the transfer of data would this be correct?

Should I leave the old 2 drives in till/if they give up?

Again thanks for the help

PC details if needed
vertex2 111GB
Windows 7 home
I7 2600k
8gb ram
Mother board asus P8P67Pro
 
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Do you plan on reinstalling a clean copy of windows or were you planing on trying to copy windows to the new ssd?

Modular power supply means you dissconnect the cables from the power supply. So say you need 4 Sata Power cables and no molex power cables you can leave the molex unpluged and not have a bunch of unnececessary cables in your case. Non-modular just means that all of the cables are prewired into the power supply.
 
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Well I read that the samsungs have a copy to keep me from a fresh install(think its called magic copy or something) however dont mind doing a fresh install if a must.

And thanks for clearing that up, just ripped open the side and yeah its non modular and has a spare sata power.
 
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Yes, there are several migration applications. Samsung generally includes one with their drives.

But if the current install has 'issues'....why would you port that to a new drive? You're just bringing the 'issues' over. It doesn't magically fix things.

Clean install.
 
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Hi again guys sorry to resurrect this post. The swap of drives and re installation went smooth a couple of months back however it did boot twice to a black screen and _ flashing. The bad news is that one fan was occasionally roaring on boot, this will slowly pick up speed as if your revving an engine. On opening up I couldnt tell if it was coming from the fan of the CPU or the graphics card and using speedfan said all temps and speeds were normal? However last night the pc failed to boot citing 'overclocking failed' to which i went to the bios and set to standard. Then this morning on load up I see CPU fan error. I rebooted and the computer booted but slowly began to increase in sound from the fan. I turn on a game and 9/10 times this will sort the fans wail back to whatever load its experiencing.
If anyone could help me diagnose the problem as I'm unsure if the CPU is on its way out and what to replace.

Again thanks for all the help in my previous posts.
 
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