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[Latitude E6500] re-install Windows7 on a new SSD HDD
Hi
I have a Latitude E6500 with Windows 7 Professional installed on a 750GB SATA HDD. I have the original drive disk of Dell Windows 7 Pro 64bit.
I bought a crucial SSD 128GB www.crucial.com/.../ct128m550ssd1 and a sata bay to replace DVD drive with the 750GB HDD.
I want to make a new and clean installation of Windows 7 Professional on SSD.
Which driver for SSD drive I need to download to install properly the SSD disk (and avoiding damage or loss of performance)?
Thank you in advance for your help
Regards
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Philip_Yip
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December 23rd, 2014 13:00
You may want to load preinstallation SATA drivers as described here:
http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/a-clean-install-of-windows/downloading-preparing-and-loading-sata-drivers/
http://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER89393M/2/Intel_Rapid-Storage-Technolo_A04_R264762.exe
It should work fine as is with Windows 7 with SP1 installation media. See A Clean Install of Windows 7 for best results:
http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/a-clean-install-of-windows/
If you don't use your optical drive much, you might want to get a optical drive to a SATA caddy so you can use your original hard drive for additional data storage.