Little help: I'm new to SSD's

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Wayfall

Wayfall

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Hi Community

So I have ordered a Samsung SSD and Windows 7 from Amazon which is the sort you have to install on a clean HDD/SSD and I'm wondering about the SSD's set up as I have heard that you can put HDD and SSD into different settings.

Will I be able to plug this sucker into my SATA 3 Master port (Mine is numbered as 0, I have my current HDD in that at the mo and my blur-ray drive in the 1 slot) without any problems then load to bios and the tell it to boot from disc so I can start installing on the SSD.

Also slightly off topic I have a few large sized 20-30GB+ games and is there anyway once I have installed the OS on the SSD and done the updates and activating the OS then moving the Steam common folder from my current HDD to an external HDD drive then wipe the my in the pc HDD then install Steam onto that drive then drag the games into the newly installed Steam folder?

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George Phillips
What's your existing OS? I have not used Steam, so I am not sure how those games in the old Steam folder will be affected. I guess they won't be playable this way. I recommend this instead:
1. Install SSD into one of the spare SATA ports and set it at AHCI mode in BIOS.
2. Install and use a clone software to clone the existing OS drive to the new SSD. I recommend using AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.8. It offers the function that allow you to do clone the existing OS drive without another PC.
3. Once it's done, unplug the existing OS drive and install the SSD to the SATA port 0.
4. Start the PC to make sure it works well.
5. Plug in the old drive to utilize the space.
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Yep. I've always just popped a clean ssd in, and chose it as the install location for windows and it takes off. If there's nothing on the drive (ie. new or wiped) then you probably wont even have to change the boot order as the computer will go through all boot options until if finds one it can do something with. like you said, just have the win7 disc in the drive and you should be fine.
 
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martinch

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Steam has a backup & restore function :)
 
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Does it?? How do I use that?
 
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What's your existing OS? I have not used Steam, so I am not sure how those games in the old Steam folder will be affected. I guess they won't be playable this way. I recommend this instead:
1. Install SSD into one of the spare SATA ports and set it at AHCI mode in BIOS.
2. Install and use a clone software to clone the existing OS drive to the new SSD. I recommend using AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.8. It offers the function that allow you to do clone the existing OS drive without another PC.
3. Once it's done, unplug the existing OS drive and install the SSD to the SATA port 0.
4. Start the PC to make sure it works well.
5. Plug in the old drive to utilize the space.
 
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