Thinkstation S30 how upgrade primary drive to ssd

First time poster here..
I would like to upgrade my primary sata drive to a Samsung 840 1TB 2.5" ssd and using my old drive as a secondary data drive. I would appreciate if someone can please post a procedure on how to do it particularly setting up the ssd drive as the boot drive for Win 7 pro and which internal ports to use for sata3. Thanks
My current configuration is:
S30 Win 7 Pro E5-1650 32GB
1 2TB SATA HDD
Nividia Quadro 4000
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If your intent is to migrate your current image over to the new SSD drive, and then blast away everything on your original drive and retask it as a data drive, it really isn't too difficult. You'll need to use some imaging software to migrate your current image onto the SSD. You'll want to connect the SSD to a red AHCI port if you want a SATA3 connection. Also remember to go into BIOS setup and ensure the SSD is showing in the boot sequence. Disconnect your old HDD and make sure your image on the SSD boots OK when connected to the red AHCI port. Once you're confident your new SSD is working correctly, you can reconnect the old drive, exclude it from the boot sequence, and use disk management in windows to blow out the partitions on your old drive and format it for use again. You can likely run the old drive either on the AHCI ports (red or orange), or the blue SCU ports. Orange AHCI and blue SCU will be limited to 3Gb/s. If it's a 6Gb/s drive and you still have a red AHCI port open, go ahead and use that.

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