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Using an HDD as an Boot Drive

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This actually brings out a pretty funny point. Because everybody swears by SSDs as boot drives so much that it makes it sound like you can't use a regular HDD. Ha! Before long, we'll all sound like old geezers saying, "Why, back in my day, we used to use HDDs to boot our OS. Those were the days...."

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Can i Use a HDD for my OS? it came from my old pc so i want to use it

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Of course you can, just don't forget to format it before installing (you will lose all the data on the hard drive)

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Why not, 90% of PCs use that (maybe more or less, IDK as SSDs are quite popular now). But it depends if it uses that wide IDE ribbon cable or SATA. If your motherboard doesn't support IDE you may have a problem.

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9 minutes ago, Chubs said:

Can i Use a HDD for my OS? it came from my old pc so i want to use it

obviously? haha its a hard drive, thats basically their purpose

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@Chubs you can format the HDD during installation when you chose which drive to install it on

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Ok thank you I'm 14 I'm still learning :3

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This actually brings out a pretty funny point. Because everybody swears by SSDs as boot drives so much that it makes it sound like you can't use a regular HDD. Ha! Before long, we'll all sound like old geezers saying, "Why, back in my day, we used to use HDDs to boot our OS. Those were the days...."

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