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SSD Upgrade- questions

Aereldor
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Greetings,

 

I've been considering upgrading to a solid state drive in the next few months, and I had a few questions about this.

 

Since I currently have my operating system and all my programs on my hard drive, will I have to back up my data, format it, install the OS on the SSD, then plug in the old HDD and reinstall everything?

 

Also, is it possible to dual boot OSX and Windows off an SSD and use the same HDD for storage and programs on both via partition? Or will I have to get separate drives for storage on each operating system?

 

Sorry about the multitude of possibly idiotic questions- I'm very new to this.

 

Regards,
Aereldor.

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