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dual boot windows 7 and 10 on two separate hard drives

  • 08-12-2015 7:11am
    #1
    darkcup101
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭


    I bought an 500gb ssd and want to upgrade my 7 to windows 10,buy wont be upgradeing my current 1tb hdd planning to clean it out and adding it as storage in time but still need access to it at the monent. If i install 7 on to the ssd and upgrade to 10, will there be any problems when i boot up after i press F12 to pick where to boot from. I was told that there could be some sort conflict and wont work. Any advice would be grateful


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  • #2
    FSL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,456 ✭✭✭FSL


    There shouldn't be as the systems are on two separate drives and the boot menu should show both drives.


  • #3
    Fysh
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 11,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭Fysh


    If you do it right there shouldn't be. What you need to do is make sure that each disk only has knows about the OS on its own drive, so basically boot each drive with the other drive disconnected. If either drive has any odd BCD entries, remove then before reconnecting both drives.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,367 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    If paranoid you could set a password on the drives in the BIOS.

    Another option would be to export the OLD OS to a VM and shared folders, but you'd have to move a lot of stuff off the 1TB drive and shrink partitions and it's a lot of work.


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