@Flabbergastrate: That's exactly how you use it, Ryan on this week's Bombcast didn't appear to know how to use one properly.
1) Make the current data on your hard drives 'public', unpassworded, unencrypted, whatever, you just need to be able to access all the data on there just like a USB drive.
2) Insert your brand new, empty, SSD into your computer as the primary drive, with your other hard drives as the secondary and tertiary drives.
3) Install a brand new Windows 7 OS onto the SSD. Do not touch the other drives.
4) Install a few programs/games onto the SSD, things like Battlefield 3/Photoshop/Chrome/things that make use of a good data throughput.
5) Anything that you install on your secondary drive, but that you want the OS to think is on the SSD, use a Directory Junction (you don't get the nice SSD speeds of course). Or just straight up install programs onto whatever the other drive letters are for your non-SSD drives. Change the 'Location' of My Documents/My Pictures/My Videos and stuff from the default place on the SSD (C:) to where they actually live on the hard drive (D:).
6) Something, it's too hot to think over here.
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