Hi All,
I have gotten some excellent advice here about installing SSDs to go with OEM HDDs. One thing I haven'f found here or elsewhere in a quick search is how you decide which programs you need to reinstall. In the many cases I've found where someone is told to reinstall the applications, they seem to assume that the original poster has memorized what to keep.
The previous upgrades were on my own business or household computers. The next one is on my assistant's at work. For lack of a better qualified person, I am the IT man at my shop. She has a number of programs loaded to do her job. I took a look at all installed programs. I also had a look at the services and applications running in the task manager (it has been busy).
This is all part of a more extensive upgrade of chip, RAM, GPU and power to turn a workhorse Dell into a light video editing machine.
I would like to know if there is a systematic way to inventory the programs that need to be (or considered for) reinstallation? That way I don't have either a blank drive or have to poke through the old drive to reconstruct what I should have remembered. Maybe it is as simple as printing the installed programs list but knowing in advance can't hurt.
Here are the intended specs on the computer:
Win 7 64-bit
i5-2400 with 8 GB RAM
GTX 750 ti
128 GB SSD
500 GB HDD
H61 chipset LGA1155 socket
My plan is to image the existing HDD as well as copy the files individually on an external drive, install the SSD and disconnect the HDD and do a clean install of Win 7 on the new drive (the motherboard automatically selects ACHI for booting). Then I'll make a system image of that on the backup drive. Then I planned to wipe the HDD, reinstall some of the programs (especially the editing package) on the SSD and the other programs on the HDD. Finally, I'll transfer the user files from the backup drive to the HDD and identify that as the download default as well. There is a lot of bloatware and wtf's on that box so a clean start makes sense.
If anyone has some ideas of how to do the transfers on a computer you don't know as well as your own, thanks for your thoughts, sh
I have gotten some excellent advice here about installing SSDs to go with OEM HDDs. One thing I haven'f found here or elsewhere in a quick search is how you decide which programs you need to reinstall. In the many cases I've found where someone is told to reinstall the applications, they seem to assume that the original poster has memorized what to keep.
The previous upgrades were on my own business or household computers. The next one is on my assistant's at work. For lack of a better qualified person, I am the IT man at my shop. She has a number of programs loaded to do her job. I took a look at all installed programs. I also had a look at the services and applications running in the task manager (it has been busy).
This is all part of a more extensive upgrade of chip, RAM, GPU and power to turn a workhorse Dell into a light video editing machine.
I would like to know if there is a systematic way to inventory the programs that need to be (or considered for) reinstallation? That way I don't have either a blank drive or have to poke through the old drive to reconstruct what I should have remembered. Maybe it is as simple as printing the installed programs list but knowing in advance can't hurt.
Here are the intended specs on the computer:
Win 7 64-bit
i5-2400 with 8 GB RAM
GTX 750 ti
128 GB SSD
500 GB HDD
H61 chipset LGA1155 socket
My plan is to image the existing HDD as well as copy the files individually on an external drive, install the SSD and disconnect the HDD and do a clean install of Win 7 on the new drive (the motherboard automatically selects ACHI for booting). Then I'll make a system image of that on the backup drive. Then I planned to wipe the HDD, reinstall some of the programs (especially the editing package) on the SSD and the other programs on the HDD. Finally, I'll transfer the user files from the backup drive to the HDD and identify that as the download default as well. There is a lot of bloatware and wtf's on that box so a clean start makes sense.
If anyone has some ideas of how to do the transfers on a computer you don't know as well as your own, thanks for your thoughts, sh