jollyroger

That is great. I would just like to thank you for taking the time to help me sort this out.

Great Thanks

I have done as you suggested and everything went well. Thanks. I have a couple of queries. I have set up the OS and MS office on the ssd. I have the 2TB drive as just one partition. I have 6 user accounts set up on the PC and when I go to the 2TB drive and create folders for each account everyone will be able to see each others folders. Any suggestions as how to stop this? Also when each user logs on can I set up their folder on the 2TB drive to be the default folder to save their stuff to? If someone is logged on to their account and they want to install a programme how can I ensure that it is installed on the 2TB drive and not the ssd by default? Many thanks.

I have a Dell Vostro 430 desktop running windows 7. It has a core i7 860 with 2 x 320GB hard drives set up in RAID 1. I am regularly getting one of the hard drives degrading and have now decided to fit a 128GB SSD and a 2TB hard drive. I want to put the OS and some programmes on the SSD and use the other drive for everything else. I intend to make a backup copy of everything to an external hard drive before I start. I have a set of disks for the Dell. I need some advice on how to set it up. Can I disconnect one of the existing hard drives and then connect in the new SSD and install windows on to it keeping the data on the other drive or am I better removing both existing hard drives and starting from scratch? When I set up windows do I need to make any changes to the BIOS regarding the existing RAID set up. Any help much appreciated.