SSD Drive Installation

[pjphilli]

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?

[spiezzy]

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

[redbeard]

Did you plug in the power cable as well as the sata cable?

[pjphilli]

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.
Peter

[pjphilli]

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?

[Imme]

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

[OICURMT]

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