Let's take a quick look at a step-by-step guide detailing how to turn an SSD into a boot drive for your new or existing computer.

How to make a bootable USB drive If you're trying to install a new operating system or flash your BIOS, you're going to need a bootable USB drive - here's how to make one.

My old pc had a SSD which I would like to be the boot drive in a new machine. However, the new machine cannot boot with it. Here is what the new machine has. Can anyone help me with this?

According to Intel, this 40GB SSD is "aimed for value netbooks and dual-drive desktop PCs as a 'boot drive' to accelerate start up times, the opening of files and overall system performance".

What? A boot ssd will still be faster. Unless you really have some strange program that will only install on a boot drive and needs the space. Anyways Win7 has been happy with my 96GB drive.