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<blockquote data-quote="blert" data-source="post: 1043199" data-attributes="member: 64702"><p>Have you made backups of any important data?</p><p></p><p>I have not installed Windows7 in years but it should walk you through fairly easily.</p><p></p><p>If there is nothing on the old drive you need to keep...</p><p>Put the new drive on the cables of the old drive and plug the old drive into a secondary drive port. Run Windows setup and have it format all drives and then let it do its thing.</p><p></p><p>If you need to keep the old drive 'as is' then that gets quite tricky as Windows does not handle dual boot very well and it will probably just try to install on top of the old installation. Depending on how it was originally installed and set up, you may not even be able to access the old files even if you get it to force dual boot.</p><p></p><p>Best option... Make backups of important stuff. Put new drive on the first drive port on the motherboard and the old drive on the secondary. Run the setup and format all drives and continue the install. Setup will walk you through.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blert, post: 1043199, member: 64702"] Have you made backups of any important data? I have not installed Windows7 in years but it should walk you through fairly easily. If there is nothing on the old drive you need to keep... Put the new drive on the cables of the old drive and plug the old drive into a secondary drive port. Run Windows setup and have it format all drives and then let it do its thing. If you need to keep the old drive 'as is' then that gets quite tricky as Windows does not handle dual boot very well and it will probably just try to install on top of the old installation. Depending on how it was originally installed and set up, you may not even be able to access the old files even if you get it to force dual boot. Best option... Make backups of important stuff. Put new drive on the first drive port on the motherboard and the old drive on the secondary. Run the setup and format all drives and continue the install. Setup will walk you through. [/QUOTE]
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