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   Hey everyone I'm adding a ssd for my boot drive and I'm not sure what else I have to do..all my programs and anti virus and games are on my old drive which now will be my secondary.What should I do? How do I go about doing it? ANY help you folks could give me would be awesome!

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Davis Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 130	Quote Reply Topic: New SSD Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 3:57pm
	Hey everyone I'm adding a ssd for my boot drive and I'm not sure what else I have to do..all my programs and anti virus and games are on my old drive which now will be my secondary.What should I do? How do I go about doing it? ANY help you folks could give me would be awesome!

Nomad1970 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 4:55pm
	I'm sure there are other ways, but when I did something similar to what you are doing, I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 on my new SSD. I then saved what I wanted from my old SSD and then reformatted it and reinstalled all my games and programs. I am sure there are ways to clone your old one, but I didn't want to put my game installs on the new one. Edited by Nomad1970 - 22 Jan 2014 at 4:56pm
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Davis Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 130	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 5:44pm
	Thanks for the reply. So if I want to use my current HDD as my secondary drive and my new ssd 120gig as a boot drive only, I should just reformat the HDD and reinstall everything? Does that mean I have to buy my antivirus all over again? Or is there a way to get around that?

Nomad1970 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716	Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2014 at 8:08pm
	Where did you buy your AV? If it was on line, then you should have a install program you downloaded for it. Save it, I used a external hard drive to save things, you could also use a flash drive. Also, after you install windows on your new SSD, copy what you need from your hard drive to the SSD before formatting it. And, you don't have to reformat if you don't want to, but you usually have to reinstall everything anyway to get the registry entries right. Edited by Nomad1970 - 22 Jan 2014 at 8:10pm
	My Precious 2 I7-9700 oc 4.7GHz 32GB DDR4 3000MHz Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SSD M.2 (512GB Samsung 970 PRO) SSD M.2 1TB Samsung 970 EVO 240GB Samsung 860 Pro SSD 1TB W.D. HD EVGA GTX 1080Ti

Davis Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 130	Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jan 2014 at 12:27pm
	It's from ESET. I was thinking that I'd just bite the bullet and reformat the drive. That way I get all the space that the OS was taking up..I have an external drive I can put pics on to save them. I'm not sure if you know or not but what would you do with iTunes music? Thanks for the help,I appreciate it.

Nomad1970 Members Profile Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 Feb 2013 Online Status: Offline Posts: 716	Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jan 2014 at 5:40pm
	I don't know, I don't have any. But I think you can re download it.
	My Precious 2 I7-9700 oc 4.7GHz 32GB DDR4 3000MHz Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SSD M.2 (512GB Samsung 970 PRO) SSD M.2 1TB Samsung 970 EVO 240GB Samsung 860 Pro SSD 1TB W.D. HD EVGA GTX 1080Ti

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