Starting off with the original HDD, the first step in the installation of HDDBOOST is to defragment your HDD. This should be done on most HDD regularly anyway so with installation of a new drive into the system defragmentation is a good thing to do. The next step is to take the enclosure out of the box and be prepared to set it up.
The enclosure is a metal tray with a Printed Circuit Board. On the end of the PCB are the SATA Data and Power connectors. Plug in the SATA SSD drive into the SATA ports (only one way to do it and secure the drive with two screws on the bottom of the enclosure. At this point you are ready to install it into the system.
The back of the enclosure has two SATA Data connectors and a SATA Power connector. The top SATA Data connector should plug into your motherboard. The second SATA Data connector should be used to plug in your HDD instead of that cable going into the motherboard. Install the drive enclosure into a 3.5in drive bay on your system as normal and installation of the HDDBOOST is done for hardware.
The next step is to boot the system up with the HDDBOOST installed. The motherboard BIOS should recognize the HDDBOOST as a SST-HDDBOOST device. Boot into Windows and the firmware will automatically backup any required data between HDD and SSD at the background processing. The last step is to download the HDDBOOST monitoring software and you are done.
