H2L1
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Alright, first off I feel like I should just let eveyone know I'm not that computer literate, so if you are going to help me out with my issue by posting, please do so as simply as possible.
I've noticed for the past 6 months or so that my laptop's HDD has been making a crap load of noise and clicks. Even longer than that I had noticed my computer running slower. I'm talking about click through long strings of folders, loading a saved image, and a decrease in the quality video game experience (such as lags due to wonky FPS). I did some surfing and came to realize that I needed a new hard drive. So I decided to get a 5.5 GB SSD. I've already installed it in the secondary hard drive slot, worked through a minor issue once I did, and the SSD is good to go, as far as I can tell. I've already installed a game on it and the game is running much better on the SSD than it was when I had the game installed on the HDD.
Now I need to get the SSD to fully take the place of my dying HDD before it's too late! I want to upgrade my OS to Windows 8.0 from my current OS of Vista. I have a copy of Windows 8 Pro that I was told would upgrade me from Vista and that I could install this on the almost entirely blank SSD. Exactly what I want.
When I put the cd in the laptop it goes through the set up wizard and will eventually begin upgrading my hard drive from Vista to 8.0 without asking me to determine which hard drive I want 8.0 to be installed on. How to I actually get the OS 8.0 Pro install disk to let me determine the destination for the install?
I've noticed for the past 6 months or so that my laptop's HDD has been making a crap load of noise and clicks. Even longer than that I had noticed my computer running slower. I'm talking about click through long strings of folders, loading a saved image, and a decrease in the quality video game experience (such as lags due to wonky FPS). I did some surfing and came to realize that I needed a new hard drive. So I decided to get a 5.5 GB SSD. I've already installed it in the secondary hard drive slot, worked through a minor issue once I did, and the SSD is good to go, as far as I can tell. I've already installed a game on it and the game is running much better on the SSD than it was when I had the game installed on the HDD.
Now I need to get the SSD to fully take the place of my dying HDD before it's too late! I want to upgrade my OS to Windows 8.0 from my current OS of Vista. I have a copy of Windows 8 Pro that I was told would upgrade me from Vista and that I could install this on the almost entirely blank SSD. Exactly what I want.
When I put the cd in the laptop it goes through the set up wizard and will eventually begin upgrading my hard drive from Vista to 8.0 without asking me to determine which hard drive I want 8.0 to be installed on. How to I actually get the OS 8.0 Pro install disk to let me determine the destination for the install?