Hello community! Finally bit the bullet and bought the Samsung 840 Pro 128 SSD to get rid of my ancient 500GB HDD.
I have a few questions and was hoping for a clear and concise How-To from someone.
I want to have Windows 7 Ultimate, Mozilla Firefox, and WoW on my SSD, and everything else like pictures, word docs and videos on my HDD.
I have backed-up all my files I want for my HDD onto an external hard drive.
Here are my questions:
1) - After I physically put in my SSD into the computer, now what? Someone said I had to "... make your BIOS run in AHCI mode (and not in IDE mode) before you do the windows install!" I have no idea what that means. I know how to get to my UEFI BIOS on my ASUS M5A97, but do I switch over before I plug the SSD in?
2) - Do I have to delete Windows and format the current HDD before I plug in the SSD?
3) - Someone mentioned clean install of WoW, OR copying "installation folder" over from HDD to SSD. Are they referring to the whole 'World of Warcraft' folder under C:/ ?
Basically, I just want to know How-To AND the best way to go about the switch over. Feel free to break it down to the elementary level
Thanks!!!