Understood that a fresh install will align everything for the fastest
performance. However, Windows here just made sure that it loaded
everything from the old drive. For some reason, it never bothered trying
to load Windows from the SSD.
On 5/17/2013 9:06 PM, Dave Gibney wrote:
My laptop
Steve,
Thanks for the view of your conversion/installation. You have
demonstrated my biggest fear of
moving forward until I create a roadmap of How to... with what to use,
why use it, what to expect.
It has been 4 years since I have built a PC from scratch. I recall in
the good-ole-days, we
If anything things have gotten easier. I just built two new systems in the last
6 months. A lot of the tweaking needed to get a system running is no longer
needed. UEFI is a lot better than the old BIOS.
If you're installing Windows, it does all the partition stuff for you. If you
want to
Brian,
Thank you for the share, but, I have quibbles.
para1: I will not have the benefits of UEFI bios until I upgrade my
m/b's to my new Z77 models, along
with their new i5-3570K cpus.
I still run XP on P65 C2D m/b's. So, OLD BIOS. I did try to use AHCI in
bios when I built these PCs.
It did
Okay, now I'm set. I re-cloned the SSD, removed the old boot drive and
the SSD booted fine, no problems. All applications seem to work.
Here's what I had to do:
#1: Make sure that the data on the drive you are cloning will fit onto
the SSD.
#2: Don't use Win7's disk manager to resize the
http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74
