installing window 7 on a SATA HD
Actually I was asking for folks to refer me to some good articles on installing Windows 7 on a new SATA hard drive. I have read that folks had problems installing windows 7 on a SATA HD.
I'm not sure if folks had problems when they tried to installed in a used HD.
Any advice will be welcome.
Montevideano
installing Windows 7 on a new SATA drive
Midknyte:
Thank you very much for your prompt response.
Regarding the drive, budget may be an issue since a nice size SSD run around $700. Not at this time. I want to buy 4 more Gb of memory. I can purchase for less than $100 a decent HD and another $100 for the memory.
You stated that 16 or 32MB cache doesn't make that much difference. Does it make any difference between a 5400 and 7200 RPM?
Thanks,
Montevideano
installing Windows 7 on a new SATA drive
I was looking at 7200 RPM but I saw lots of 5400 RPMs. Thanks,
Montevideano
installing Windows 7 on a new SATA drive
Rocketmech,
Thank you for your prompt response.
I have a fairly new motherboard: Gibabyte MA785GM-US2H, made in June 2009, with a AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor. Hopefully I wont need put the SATA driver on a floppy.
Thank you for the link to Microsoft.
Before I do anything I need to uninstall a bunch of software and back up all my data. That will take some time.
Thanks,
Montevideano
installing Windows 7 on a new SATA drive
Imperion1,
Thank you very much for your response.
I just purchased a new Western Digital Caviar Black WD6401AALS 640GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive. It should arrive in a couple days.
I probably need to uninstall programs such as Photoshop CS since it won't let me reinstall it unless I have uninstall it first.
Then I plan to install Windows 7 on my new drive and use my old SATA drive to keep all my data.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Montevideano