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Two Hdd with two windows

Femin Dharamshi
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If you don't want your 1tb hdd and ssd to show up on your 160 gb hdd windows disable them on from device manager on your 160gb hdd windows. Also, if you want to keep the two installations of windows totaly separate, when you are installing windows on your 160gb hdd,, unplug the other two drives as windows installer puts the bootloader on the disk which already contains a bootloader(it creates a new one if there are none). Doing this will make your 160g drive bootable but you have to select it from bios every time you want to boot from it.

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So what i am planning to do is install one more hard disk of 160 gb into my pc and i will do all programming stuff and all, now my pc already has a 128gb ssd and a 1tb hdd. and windows 10 is installed on ssd. now if i put a 160gb hdd with windows 10 on it and when all the 3 storage devices are connected and if i boot into 160gb hdd then will my ssd and 1tb hdd will be shown in the This Pc, because i am getting this other hdd so the files on the main do not get affected. how do i keep both separated ?

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How about just format the 160gb hdd and use that as storage for your projects?

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3 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

How about just format the 160gb hdd and use that as storage for your projects?

i am gonna install some softwares that my affect the system when i do somethings with those programs. like node.js and etc.. i might install apache and all. i dont want those on my main system

 

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30 minutes ago, Femin Dharamshi said:

i am gonna install some softwares that my affect the system when i do somethings with those programs. like node.js and etc.. i might install apache and all. i dont want those on my main system

 

why would such program change stuff in your 1tb main hdd? if you don't save these things there it shouldn't change anything

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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If you don't want your 1tb hdd and ssd to show up on your 160 gb hdd windows disable them on from device manager on your 160gb hdd windows. Also, if you want to keep the two installations of windows totaly separate, when you are installing windows on your 160gb hdd,, unplug the other two drives as windows installer puts the bootloader on the disk which already contains a bootloader(it creates a new one if there are none). Doing this will make your 160g drive bootable but you have to select it from bios every time you want to boot from it.

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