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[Not much of a hardware guy, so please excuse my ignorance :)]
I just ordered an HP Pavilion Elite HPE-450t (desktop), which came with Win7 installed on the hard drive, using two partitions (C: and D:).
Separately, I bought a 128GB SSD that I intend to use as my system drive. I got it in there and connected it, and right now, it's the J: drive (which was the first letter available in disk manager).
My goal is for the SSD to get a clean OS install be the C: drive, and to clean out the other hard drive and make it D: (for misc data storage)
Question #1: the motherboard has two SATA plugs. Does it matter which one I use for which drive?
Question #2: what's the right way to install Win7 on the SSD in a way that it ends up being the C: drive? Do I need to switch some things around in the current Win7 that came with it, are can I do all that while installing Win7 on the SSD?
Thanks for the advice. The current Win7 install cam with the system I just received, so it has nothing worth saving. My only goal is to start completely clean with the OS on the SSD. I'll try that tomorrow and will follow up. – David Ebbo – 2010-11-08T01:12:40.970
Ok, it's all set up now :) – David Ebbo – 2010-11-09T04:30:56.560