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Do I have to disconnect my HDD when upgrading to Windows 10

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I have a 250GB SSD and 1TB HDD.

Do I have to disconnect my HDD while upgrading to windows 10 from windows 8.1?

I do this when I first installed windows 8.1 in my pc to make sure that all the operating system file goes to my SSD

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No, but people recommend it so you don't choose the drive on accident.

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I do this when I first installed windows 8.1 in my pc to make sure that all the operating system file goes to my SSD

Just do same thing again. Maybe in only 0.0000000001% you can face a problem when second hard is connected but for that miserable chance to f*ck up things I allways disconnect all other drives... 

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Just do same thing again. Maybe in only 0.0000000001% you can face a problem when second hard is connected but for that miserable chance to f*ck up things I allways disconnect all other drives... 

I do the same.

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I didn't, im just to lazy. Upgrading now so ill tell you if i oops hard core.

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No I don't bother, unless you choose the wrong disk to install Windows on you're fine, but if you want to be on the safe side then go ahead

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I awkwardly upgraded to Windows 10. First of all I upgraded Windows 8.1 to 10 on my HDD, then I did a clean install on same same drive. Finally I migrated that installation onto my newly installed Samsung 850 Pro SSD xD

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No I don't bother, unless you choose the wrong disk to install Windows on you're fine...

I was thinking the same... And than I saw (in person, on my sister's computer) strange thing- "system reserved partition" was on second hdd... NOT partition, physically different hard drive... Since than during installation I disconnect all storage drive- problems may occure once in 10 000 times, but they are real and is easier to disconnect 2 cables... 

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I was thinking the same... And than I saw (in person, on my sister's computer) strange thing- "system reserved partition" was on second hdd... NOT partition, physically different hard drive... Since than during installation I disconnect all storage drive- problems may occure once in 10 000 times, but they are real and is easier to disconnect 2 cables... 

That's weird, I have never ran into that. What I tend to do though is tell it to create partitions required so I can oversee how it is going to partition my disk before clicking install.

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I did, both to protect files just in case but also because I triple boot and Windows 10 will break the boot loaders of the others if they are connected.

 

So I say yes, unplug them.

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