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Noob question about upgrading Windows

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I have 3 drives in my computer: my SSD, a hard drive for my games, and another hard drive for my movies and shows. I don't want to lose what's on my 2 hard drives, so if I unplugged them during installation and then plugged them back in afterwards, would I still be able to access all of my files on both drives?

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Yes. Even if you don't unplug them they will be fine.

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Yes you would. As a matter of fact, you don't even have to unplug them.

Well, it's probably best not to leave them unplugged. You may do some damage to them. Believe me, I had two hard drives. I accidentally formatted the WRONG one while installing Windows 7. Bye bye 500GB! 

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If any of them have the same capacity, I'd unplug just to be safe.

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I have 3 drives in my computer: my SSD, a hard drive for my games, and another hard drive for my movies and shows. I don't want to lose what's on my 2 hard drives, so if I unplugged them during installation and then plugged them back in afterwards, would I still be able to access all of my files on both drives?

You planning on upgrading to Windows 8.1?

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