Installing an SSD on existing build

Just purchased a 120GB SSD. My plan is to use it as the boot drive along with storage for certain programs (not sure which yet). I want to clean install Windows to the drive, but I'm not sure how my HDDs should be set up after that point. Should I wipe them to clear the other windows install? Can I just re-install programs on the SSD and delete them from the HDD? Just not sure how this will work and/or the best way to do it.

Just purchased a 120GB SSD. My plan is to use it as the boot drive along with storage for certain programs (not sure which yet). I want to clean install Windows to the drive, but I'm not sure how my HDDs should be set up after that point. Should I wipe them to clear the other windows install? Can I just re-install programs on the SSD and delete them from the HDD? Just not sure how this will work and/or the best way to do it.

quikdash6

Be sure to set SATA to AHCI in BIOS first thing. It doesn't matter what is on your old HDDs. Set BIOS to boot from the optical drive first and the SSD second. Install Windows. Go back into BIOS and set it to boot from the SSD. You will have to reinstall all your programs, or at least the ones that install into Windows. Some utilities are just run from the exe file, and you can run them from wherever they are.

I guess my question is, is it best to backup my pics, videos, music, etc. and format the HDDs to start fresh?

Something else I'm worried about is making sure I have a list of programs I use. Also, is there a way to figure out fonts or similar things that I've downloaded so I can reaquire them later? Sorry, this is the first time I'll be doing this willingly. Usually it's because the drive fails and I don't have a chance to get all this info beforehand.

When I switched from an HDD to an SSD I was feeling kind of lazy and didn't want to do a fresh install of Windows. These are more or less the steps I followed:

1) I backed up all my files (music, movies, tv shows, etc.) on an external drive.

2) Installed the SSD into the case.

3) Used this software "Ease US Todo Backup" to clone my HDD with windows into the new SSD. (The software has an option to optimize data for SSDs)

http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Todo-Backup-Free/3000-2242_4-10964460.html

4) Then I went into Bios and made the switch to AHCI (and a few other changes that my Asrock motherboad allows for such purposes).

5) Booted Windows, everything running perfectly now. Went into Disk Utility and formatted the old HDD.

6) Copied all the files from the External HDD into the old HDD.