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How do I make sure my ssd is my main drive?

Typically, yes.

You can get more detailed information by right-clicking on your computer icon, select Manage, and then disk management (under Storage).
 
The main thing is to enter BIOS and set your SSD as the boot drive.
 
how do I make sure that I'm using everything on my old drive since I cloned the old drive to the ssd? So I can delete everything but windows on my ssd?
 
Not sure what your objective is. If you delete all but the OS on your SSD, that's all you'll have that works - just your OS. IMHO, you will then have wasted your time cloning the HDD.

If the SSD boots and your can run your programs, then leave it be.
 
You also may want to consider doing a fresh Windows installation on the SSD. You can use a utility like the magic jellybean to extract the key from the old installation on the hard drive. Then, disconnect the hard drive completely from the computer, and do a fresh Windows install on the SSD where you delete the old partition.
 
A fresh window install would be best. Installing Win7 should only take about 15 minutes with a SSD. Since you already cloned it, and if you want to forgo a fresh installation, shut down and remove the main power cord to power supply from he wall, disconnect old drive, and connect new SSD to primary SATA port, and its power cable to the power supply. Then reconnect power cord from the wall. Then restart and get into the bio to make sure it sees the SSD, boot from it and see if its working. But keep the old data just in case you have problems.
 
Even if Windows is where you want it and it says C:, the boot partition and MBR could still be on another drive. So you still risk that windows won't boot if you disconnect the other drives. You can typically find this info in disk management, if there is a ~100mb partition on another disk, that's probably where windows put the boot files since you did not disconnect all other drives when installing windows.

Some more info here:
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/17521-how-fix-mbr-through-command-prompt.html
 
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