I've got a 1TB Legacy BIOS (MBR) HDD with Windows 10 installed.
I will be buying a new 250GB SSD, I want to install Windows 10 on it and use it as the main boot drive.
I'm also looking for the SSD to be GPT and not MBR.
I don't have a CD for any Windows version over here, I've got the serial for Windows 8 though.
Motherboard supports SATA 3 and UEFI not sure how to sort that out though.
The idea is to keep the 1TB HDD (whether MBR or GPT, doesn't matter for me for this drive, whichever is easier) with all its information intact (don't mind using an external HD to back it up) and use it to install random things that don't need the SSD speed/dump big folders like pictures onto it.
I've researched around and although I've retrieved a lot of info I can't seem to piece together how to do this at all! (without a decent degree of wiping everything on this HDD by accident)
Does the new SSD need to go into a certain physical slot? Do I have to reformat the MBR HDD? How do I make the SSD the primary boot drive? What's the best way to get the Windows 10 on it? SATA2/3? D:
The main question is how do I go about this from start to end? Thanks in advance.
I will be buying a new 250GB SSD, I want to install Windows 10 on it and use it as the main boot drive.
I'm also looking for the SSD to be GPT and not MBR.
I don't have a CD for any Windows version over here, I've got the serial for Windows 8 though.
Motherboard supports SATA 3 and UEFI not sure how to sort that out though.
The idea is to keep the 1TB HDD (whether MBR or GPT, doesn't matter for me for this drive, whichever is easier) with all its information intact (don't mind using an external HD to back it up) and use it to install random things that don't need the SSD speed/dump big folders like pictures onto it.
I've researched around and although I've retrieved a lot of info I can't seem to piece together how to do this at all! (without a decent degree of wiping everything on this HDD by accident)
Does the new SSD need to go into a certain physical slot? Do I have to reformat the MBR HDD? How do I make the SSD the primary boot drive? What's the best way to get the Windows 10 on it? SATA2/3? D:
The main question is how do I go about this from start to end? Thanks in advance.