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My desktop C drive (which carries the OS and all software) started clicking quite loudly a couple of weeks ago which corresponded with the computer misbehaving at times. It is an 8 year old Seagate hard drive so I figured I had the perfect excuse to replace it – with an SSD.
Because my present installation of Win7 and software is more than 2 years old and has been subjected to all sorts of amendments and tweaks - I decided that I would do a clean install of Windows 7 Professional using my Microsoft Win7 Upgrade DVD using the registry tweak method to activate it - as recommended on this forum. This to be followed by a clean install and set-up of all my software.
All my data and documents are stored on a separate hard drive - so there was no need to re-install any of this. I just had to use Windows Explorer to alter the location for the docs, pictures, music and videos to the existing D: drive
However – I realised that this would involve me in many hours of work over 2 or 3 days and I wanted to be able to continue to use my computer for Emails and web browsing. I therefore installed the new SSD in a spare slot and connected it to a spare SATA socket on the mobo. I left the previous C: drive connected for the time being.
The result was that each time I booted the computer, after the BIOS loaded, I got a message “Choose the Operating System to Start” with two Win7 installations listed. If I clicked on the first one – then the SSD would load Windows – and if I clicked on the second one, Win7 would load off the old hard drive. This served its intended purpose and allowed me to use the computer off either drive as required.
Once I had got all my software installed and properly set-up on the new SSD I decided to disconnect the Old hard drive and move its SATA connection to the SSD. Upon booting I set the boot sequence to DVD followed by the new SSD.
This has resulted in a problem – when I boot the computer I get a message asking me to load boot media – or words to that effect. The computer will not boot off the SSD if the old hard drive is not present. I assume there must be a file on the old hard drive that the computer needs to boot from that is missing on the new SSD.
I have therefore re-connected the old hard drive so that I can again use the SSD installation. But the question is – what do I need to do in order to remove the old hard drive and be able to boot from the SSD.
Mobo : ASUS P5QL socket 775
CPU : Intel Core 2 quad Q9650 3.0 GHz
SATA set to AHCI
8GB RAM
Because my present installation of Win7 and software is more than 2 years old and has been subjected to all sorts of amendments and tweaks - I decided that I would do a clean install of Windows 7 Professional using my Microsoft Win7 Upgrade DVD using the registry tweak method to activate it - as recommended on this forum. This to be followed by a clean install and set-up of all my software.
All my data and documents are stored on a separate hard drive - so there was no need to re-install any of this. I just had to use Windows Explorer to alter the location for the docs, pictures, music and videos to the existing D: drive
However – I realised that this would involve me in many hours of work over 2 or 3 days and I wanted to be able to continue to use my computer for Emails and web browsing. I therefore installed the new SSD in a spare slot and connected it to a spare SATA socket on the mobo. I left the previous C: drive connected for the time being.
The result was that each time I booted the computer, after the BIOS loaded, I got a message “Choose the Operating System to Start” with two Win7 installations listed. If I clicked on the first one – then the SSD would load Windows – and if I clicked on the second one, Win7 would load off the old hard drive. This served its intended purpose and allowed me to use the computer off either drive as required.
Once I had got all my software installed and properly set-up on the new SSD I decided to disconnect the Old hard drive and move its SATA connection to the SSD. Upon booting I set the boot sequence to DVD followed by the new SSD.
This has resulted in a problem – when I boot the computer I get a message asking me to load boot media – or words to that effect. The computer will not boot off the SSD if the old hard drive is not present. I assume there must be a file on the old hard drive that the computer needs to boot from that is missing on the new SSD.
I have therefore re-connected the old hard drive so that I can again use the SSD installation. But the question is – what do I need to do in order to remove the old hard drive and be able to boot from the SSD.
Mobo : ASUS P5QL socket 775
CPU : Intel Core 2 quad Q9650 3.0 GHz
SATA set to AHCI
8GB RAM
