keeping old HDD while upgrading?

[Bubba200]

so, i am upgrading my pc soon, and i will be changing out motherboard, and CPU... and so i heard that because of this windows will conflict with the new hardware because it is trying to use old drivers. so, because of this i am getting a new ssd to put a fresh windows on it. but i also plan on keeping my old drives in so i wouldn't have to re download all my old content... should i do that or would it be a mess to deal with due to the the old windows being on the old drive... and new on the new drive... should i just suck it up and format the old drive, with boot and nuke?

[Xanthe_2871]

You should be fine. The old copy of Windows will be taking up unnecessary space, but it won't cause any conflicts as long as the boot order of your BIOS knows to use the SSD first. 

[Finski]

So, will I lose all of my data if I change my MoBo and CPU? 

[Bubba200]

20 minutes ago, Xanthe_2871 said:

You should be fine. The old copy of Windows will be taking up unnecessary space, but it won't cause any conflicts as long as the boot order of your BIOS knows to use the SSD first. 

Ok, cool... should I just delete the windows off the old drive when the time comes? or would that mess up something with the files in that drive?... thanks!

[Xanthe_2871]

1 minute ago, Bubba200 said:

Ok, cool... should I just delete the windows off the old drive when the time comes? or would that mess up something with the files in that drive?... thanks!

It wouldn't mess up anything. As long as you know you won't be going back to that HDD as your primary drive in the near future, then it will be fine. 

[Bubba200]

1 minute ago, Xanthe_2871 said:

It wouldn't mess up anything. As long as you know you won't be going back to that HDD as your primary drive in the near future, then it will be fine. 

cool man, thanks again!