Just keep it simple, physically disconnect your windows 7 disk, connect the SSD and install windows 8 on that. Once windows 8 is up and running turn off your computer, connect the old disk on another sata port, set bios to boot from Windows 8 disk, and just copy your files off the old disk. You can also boot from the old disk to back up other stuff like your bookmarks, or whatever from within the old system.
Keep using the SSD for a couple weeks before you format the other drive to make sure you didn't forget to back something up from your old system, such as browser bookmarks or e-mails if you're using Thunderbird. After that you can format your old drive and use as data storage. There's no need to mess with dual boot in this situation as you don't plan to use both system in the future, from what I understand.
The reason that installing Windows on a new drive with an old Windows drive connected is a bad idea:. The new installation will not have its own boot and recovery partition s but rely on the those on the old installation, which means when you unplug your old drive or it dies someday, you won't be able to boot the new drive as well without a hassle.
You'll need to reinstall Windows Boot Manager and rebuild the BCD store with bcdboot , if it's a UEFI installations, you'll even need to shrink your C: to get some space for a new EFI System Partition, and in any case, you'll lost the recovery environment though some people might consider it useless.
Therefore, in my opinion, it's mostly a better idea to install Windows on a new drive without any old Windows drive connected to the system, so that the new installation will be standalone, unless your motherboard has a UEFI that sucks, for which its boot menu is not accessible or so.
After this it will may still show windows 7 in the boot menu with Easy BCD. Not that this process will invalidate the activation on your old Windows 7 install, but you'll keep everything else interact and you could still upgrade to Windows 8.
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Installing Windows 8. Asked 5 years, 7 months ago. Active 3 years, 9 months ago. Viewed 3k times. Improve this question. Rotan Rotan 3 3 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. You would just select the partition you want to HIDE and go through the list of options, or get the same list by right clicking on it You might want to HIDE the two little partitions also.
The reason is that the size of the partitions has been changed, and as a result, so has their physical location, or address That can sometimes be an issue In reality, unless you are planning on immediately adding a bunch of data to your SSD Movies and things, I would just unhook the HDD You can get a good external USB 3.
It would be good insurance A good imaging program can then resize the image to fit on the SSD A Hibernation File, and a Page File Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Windows Windows 8. Any help please?
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Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Hi, You will not find a setting for primary drive for software installation The Bios settings don't work that way When you get there you will see a list of things to boot from, and in what order How satisfied are you with this reply?
In reply to slance's post on January 4, Thank you for replying back. Please advise what to do? I wouldn't mess with the Storage Options at the moment That is the only way to determine if things worked out right You don't want two active bootable drives running all of the time It's free and works well. Thank you. I will report you back here with some results. So right now this is what I should do? Q2 Does unpluging my HDD affect data in any way?
I can also connect it again right? Hi, For Temporary Internet files, and temporary file from most of the other software is directed to hard drive.
Is there any way to verify the status of the connection independent of the Toolbox? It is a toolbox issue as the drive will connect SATA 3. Simply test with any of the free benchmarking software we use in our reviews. Can you specifically recommend software s that you are sure reflect the actual connection speed and not simply the hardware rating?
I have a new custom desktop workstation arriving tomorrow specs below , preinstalled with Win I would appreciate your advice and guidance on a few questions I have. First of all, I am wondering if there are any known issues or recommendations when installing SSDs in Win 10?
Specifically what are your thoughts on the best way to maximize workflow performance with the P in the system? MB: Asrock fatal1ty X99M 3. I did most of this for my Win 7 but you are unclear. You should run Win 7 and Win 8 optimization guides separately. It does what it says but you have to be more functional. Other internet sights would sell this optimization guides as a download. But, it is good to have you around!
This is a 3 year old guide. I would not follow it. They are trying to fix space issues and additional SSD writing — those are not issues today. I wish there were an updated guide. Thanks, really enjoyed the guide. Your excellent relating of the current evolution of SSDs was awesome.
I never realized how complex the technology has become. I left off where the bit polarity written to an oxide surface was flipped from horizonal to vertical to increase compacity. Again thanks for the education.
Nice Guide.. Thanks for sharing with us. I recently add SSD in my laptop and this guide really helped me a lot. That guide is still valid but we have found that updating to that of Win10 is not as important, as much of our recommendations are now part and parcel to an SSD installation.
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