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Upgrading My Desktop

Started: Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 11:43pm
Topic: Personal

It was finally time to upgrade certain parts of my computer and in the process of this journey, log what I have done and what troubles I ran into.

My desktop computer is almost 2 years old, but certain parts of it are way over 5 years. My C: and D: drives were taken from my last computer and re-used in my new custom built desktop (primarily to save money). I really wanted to upgrade my HD space and switch to the latest craze, an SSD. While doing this upgrade, I felt like I should blog about what I did and any problems I ran into. Continue reading...
The next step in my system upgrade was to install and format the new hard drives, migrate all program files over to the new drive, and setup symlink's for legacy paths. For my upgrade I was installing a 1TB internal HD that will house all my program and game installations, and a 128GB SSD that will house the Windows 7 OS. This process was pretty tedious, so bare with me and follow closely. Continue reading...