I was told that installing an SSD was easy!!. I have bought a Crucial MX200 256gb so that I can have the OS on that and use the HDD for data. I have used the DVD windows 7 (that shipped in late 2009 with my Studio 8100 so it is not Windows 7.1) to clean install on the SSD and after virtually finishing the install it stops and says "windows setup could not configure windows to run on this computer hardware". I have also tried to clone the drive from my HHD using acronis but once it has "successfully" cloned it and I start windows on the SSD it gives blue screen saying basically 'take the SSD out I don't like it!". Experts like you will know the desktop has only 2 options in the BIOS for either IDE or RAID and I'm sure that is the problem??? Where is the third option ACHD (or whatever it is called?). I cannot find this discussion on the forum and yet I cannot be the first one to have this problem, surely?
If there is not an easy solution then if I wait until I download Windows 10, will I then be able to 'clone' or clean install onto the SSD? Thankyou: I wait with eager expectation. I have never used this forum before (or any forum for that matter!)