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    Making my new SSD the primary drive?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Midwestraxx, Aug 15, 2012.

  1. Midwestraxx

    Midwestraxx Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi I just recently installed my 128GB Sandisk Extreme SSD into my MSI GT60 ONE and I need help with making it my primary boot drive. When I installed, I put my 750GB HDD in the secondary 3GB/s slot and installed my SSD in the primary 6GB/s slot. Then in BIOS I set the SSD as my primary boot. However, it still boots on my HDD and all the sites I'm looking at are stating that I have to take out the HDD so the computer will automatically create a boot partition. But this would take a good amount of time to uninstall and reinstall the HDD with how this MSI is set up. Isn't there another way?
     
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    Midwestraxx Notebook Enthusiast

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    anyone have a clue?
     
    Midwestraxx, Aug 16, 2012
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    Assuming you're using Windows, try easyBCD
     
    superparamagnetic, Aug 17, 2012
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    Have you installed Windows 7 on the SSD yet? Or how is it configured?
     
    HTWingNut, Aug 18, 2012
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    I think if you haven't installed windows onto the SSD & wiped the HDD (not even sure wiping it is necessary), swapping the physical places of the drives and altering the BIOS boot sequence probably won't matter. When it boots and tries to boot up using the SSD in the primary slot and there is nothing on it, the next item in the list will be selected - which is probably when your HDD in the secondary slot boots.
     
    caulayflames, Aug 26, 2012
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    You can also try using GParted to set the primary boot flag on your SSD instead of the HDD.
     
    MidnightSun, Aug 27, 2012
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    If you're talking about the 100 MB System Reserved partition that Windows 7 creates during installation, then you just have to keep on rebooting and hope for the best - on good days I get the Windows 7 installer to create the partition on my SSD the first time I partition the SSD, on bad days it takes 20-30 reboots (and repartitions).

    There's probably some twisted logic behind which drive Windows 7 selects, but I have yet to figure it out :(
     
    Peon, Aug 27, 2012
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