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Hello All
This may be a dumb question, but I am not sure if things have changed when it comes to Primary and Slave hard drives. I am planning to install an SSD as my primary and want to keep my current HDD as a slave, I have watched many videos on this but none of them say anything about changing the jumpers on the HDD that will be my slave. Do we still need to do this or not?
Just for info sake: motherboard is Asus M4A78T-E, CPU AMD Phenom II 970 X4, HDD WD Green 500GB and Future primary drive will be Samsung 850 Pro 120GB. Windows7 Home, SP1
 
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Your SSD will be SATA, which has no primary/slave concept like the old IDE. If you are using an IDE drive on the single IDE port, it would be a master on that channel. If your hard drive is SATA then there are no jumpers to worry about.
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Your SSD will be SATA, which has no primary/slave concept like the old IDE. If you are using an IDE drive on the single IDE port, it would be a master on that channel. If your hard drive is SATA then there are no jumpers to worry about.
 
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Okay thanks, I tried to clone and got to 97 percent. it said it had an error that read "failed to retrieve source information 205500(0322bc)". Something about possible bad sector. How can I tell if that is correct? I may just do a clean install then move my files over.

 
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Nope, you can install Windows 7 to a drive that is not even initialized, Win 7 does it as the first step, so no need to pre-format.

Best to do the install while only the SSD is attached and no HDDs so that the system reserved partition ends up on the SSD.
 
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Okay, I had to get permission from Microsoft for and ISO file since my DVD drive is malfunctioning. They gave me permission and directions to use USB Flash or Jump drive to place ISO on. Both my jump and flash drives are Fat32 not NTFS. Does this matter?
 
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Use the Microsoft USB tool and instructions HERE and you can install with USB. You don't just install from the ISO off a USB stick, it needs to be bootable and the tool will do that for you and provides good instructions. You need a USB stick that is at least 4GB and the format doesn't matter as it will get reformatted in the process.

 
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