Booting from SSD

[Rex A. Butcher]

Hi there,

A friend has loaned me a 30gb SSD to play with. He recommends installing XP and watching how fast it is.

My current system has 3 HDD; disk 0 has five partitions, d2 also has five and d3 only one.

If I replace d0 with the SSD and install XP, then d0 will only have one partition and I guess the drive letters on the other HDD will change accordingly. I don't want this to happen as when I replace the SSD with my current HDD, everything will be different. Or does it all happen automatically and when I replace my current HDD, everything will be as it was?

Or am I misunderstanding what will happen?

Grateful for any comments. Thanks,

Rex

[Midknyte]

If I replace d0 with the SSD and install XP, then d0 will only have one partition and I guess the drive letters on the other HDD will change accordingly

If you are doing a fresh install, then yes the letters will go in order. You can always change the drive letters in disk management later.

[Rex A. Butcher]

Thanks for your reply.

I was actually thinking of restoring my True Image to the SSD. It will be faster and give me all the programs to play with.

Will doing that affect the drive letters? And / or, will it actually work because the SSD will be new hardware and not actually installed with Windows?

Rex

[SuperSparks]

If you install your image then it will be pretty certain that Product Activation will kick in. I'd be more inclined to go the clean install route myself.