Install Windows 7 On A Laptop SSD (2nd Drive)?
Sep 25, 2012
I'm thinking of buying a Lenovo X230 laptop. Their SSDs max out at 256GB and I need more total storage than that, so I was thinking of buying a unit with a 500GB HDD and installing a 256GB mSATA SSD in the WWAN slot myself, using that as my primary (s/w) drive. Since the system will come from the factory with Windows 7 already installed on the HDD, I was wondering what the procedure would be for reinstalling it on the SSD and making the system boot from there.
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My motherboard is a Biostar G31-M7 TE with latest bios now what is odd is that I recently updated the BIOS to the latest one so does my problem come from here or was it always going to be a problem on this board? Also when I do have Windows 7 installed on the IDE drive when I plug in ther sata drive inside the whole system goes belly up (from freezes when transferring large files to just not seeing the drive)
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So my question is when I build my system and am ready to install w7 can I install onto drive M on the new sata 6.0 drive?
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this will be my 1st build but I am not to bad with computers and have changed cpu's/HD's/gpu's/fans etc etc. but not mobo's and cases. And never changed a O/S onto another drive with a different boot drive letter.
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Check my Hardware specs for full information
Current setup:
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3. Open a command prompt as administrator. (Right click, Open as Admin, or Ctrl+Shift+ Click)
4. Get the drive number by typing:diskpart list disk On my machine the USB disk was number 1.
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-select partition 1
-active
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-assign
-exit
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7. Navigate to the boot directory cd E:oot (Where E is the drive letter of the DVD)
8. Using bootsect, we’ll make the USB drive a bootable NTFS drive, ready for a Windows 7 image: bootsect /nt60 F: (Where F is the drive letter of the USB Drive)
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