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Old 14-02-2020, 03:33 PM
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SSD Drive Installation

I have a HP 8300 PC fitted with a 300GB hard drive and running Win7. I have just fitted a 240GB SSD drive on spare SATA sockets. I am told I should find the SSD drive in Disk Management to assign a drive letter and format but where is it? See attached screen shot of the Disk Management. Any ideas?
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Old 14-02-2020, 03:43 PM
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hi Pete
try unplugging the drive and plug back in i think i had a similar problem when putting a second SSD in my Tough Book
cheers Pete
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Old 14-02-2020, 05:18 PM
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Did you plug in the power cable as well as the sata cable?
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Old 15-02-2020, 09:57 AM
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Thanks Damien and Pete
I checked that the power and sata cables were installed correctly. Then following Pete's advice I unplugged and replugged the cables. The SSD drive is now recognised and I have just formatted it and checked it out. So you were right Pete, maybe the unused cables got a bit dusty and the second connection fixed this - good thing and a tip to remember when connecting new gear in future.
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Old 15-02-2020, 02:00 PM
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I have now installed, formatted and named (E) a 240GB SSD drive on my PC and want to copy the Win 7 operating system and licence only from my existing C drive to the SSD.
What is the best way to do this and then make the SSD drive my Win 7 start up drive?
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Old 15-02-2020, 03:02 PM
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Use a clone disk utility and then go into bios to make the new drive the startup drive..... fairly easy. I did it recently and I have very limited IT knowledge
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