Upgrading new OS

[dandrix]

I am planing to upgrade to Windows 10 in future. Im thinking about installing it on a SSD which i will be upgrading soon, but i have W7 installed on HDD which is my only storage device in system atm, which conatins all my OS, media files and other things. Question is what happens with W7 files on HDD when im installing new OS on SSD ? Im not doing RAID or anything, theyll be seperate storage devices. Do i need to uninstall W7 first from HDD, or its files will automaticly be deleted ?

[Rorgash]

If you're installing a new OS in a different drive it won't touch other drives...

unless it feels that it should place some important files on another random disk for some unexplained reason.. which happens some times.

 

 

But yes, just disconnect all your other drives, install windows, then plug the other drives back in again

[Rorgash]

That only could happen if the target drive is in a lower ATA channel (ie: HDD on channel 0 and SSD on channel 4)

yea, but its not easy to know where you plug everything in and its worse when you plug many in and from different places, i have 5 out of my 6 slots filled, i have no idea which one is 0  though i guess it would make some things easier if one just find that one first and puts the OS drive there.

[dandrix]

yea, but its not easy to know where you plug everything in and its worse when you plug many in and from different places, i have 5 out of my 6 slots filled, i have no idea which one is 0  though i guess it would make some things easier if one just find that one first and puts the OS drive there.

I mean, whats gona happen with OS stored on HDD if i install new one on SSD ? Obviously i dont need 2 OSes.