Before replacing the HDD, I had made a drive image of the virgin Windows 8 installation, just in case; but there was no prior installation of Windows 8 or anything else on these new replacement drives. So now it was time to install Windows 7 on that empty SSD, which would reportedly cut down on the wait time whenever I booted Windows. For this process, I referred back to my previous post on configuring a Windows 7 laptop, and to[…]
