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8 minutes ago, 64Bit_Gaming said:

Hello all, 

So I recently just bought a new drive for more storage and i want to install windows 10 on my new drive.

Lets say that right now my drive is (C:). I want to install windows on (D:). Will i be able to install it on (D:) without loosing any data on (C:)? 

as long as you dont format the Drive C you will be fine. You will still have your active windows partitions and files on it. Your best bet would be to back everything up and reformat 100% and start fresh with everything. 

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Unless you want another version of Windows on your computer - I have no idea what your doing.

 

Right let's say your current "C:/" drive is Disk 1 and your new "D:/" drive is Disk 2. Installing Windows on Disk 2 will NOT affect windows installed on Disk 1 - but it will install a completely separate version of Windows to your computer. When you boot up, you would have the option to boot from Windows on Disk 1 or Windows on Disk 2

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As someone who has just recently done this. Only issue you will end up is that 2 Windows' will have some trouble co-existing. If you want to be sure everything on other drives will remain as is, unplug them. If you have done reinstalling and things like that before, you can leave those drives as is. You are working with only new drive and once selected, Windows will only install stuff on that drive. There will be bootmgr made, which can cause issues. But not to new Windows, it will cause some issues with older if you want to access that one. Nothing major, you just need to re-create bootmgr so that it recognizes another Windows.

 

I have working Win7 still on another SSD (which I will format at some point). On booted Windows OS drive is always C:-drive. Rest of drives will have letters assigned in order they are detected.

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5 hours ago, 64Bit_Gaming said:

Hello all, 

So I recently just bought a new drive for more storage and i want to install windows 10 on my new drive.

Lets say that right now my drive is (C:). I want to install windows on (D:). Will i be able to install it on (D:) without loosing any data on (C:)? 

When you install Windows 10, the setup will detect the C:\ drive with the OS on it, and make you a OS selection menu screen. So that once all is done, when you restart your PC, it will ask you which OS you want to go? Windows 10, or whatever OS you have on the C:\ drive. If you don't want this, than unplug your C:\ drive from the system before starting Windows 10 setup.

 

Keep in mind that:

  • In Windows, the drive that has the currently running Windows is C:\, and the other will be drive is D:\. So in other words, under your current drive with Windows on it, it will it itself as you see now: C:\ is your main drive, and you'll see D:\ the new drive where you want Windows 10 on. But under Windows 10, it will appear flipped. Windows 10 drive is C:\, and the old drive will appear as D:\. The main reason for this is that the concept of drive letters is a Windows interpretation of drives layout on the system. It allows customization without flipping wires through connectors on the motherboard, it is easier to understand, and also, as an added bonus, it is faster to navigate in the times of MS-DOS, where you needed to type folder paths, as GUIs as we know it didn't exists.
     
  • Windows 10 will need to override and replace the boot manager to boot to Windows 10 and give you the OS selection menu. That means that if later you remove C:\ drive, than your system will no longer start. Your system will go "I can't find the OS", as it is designed to look at a specific area, but the drive that has information is gone, as you removed it (to be clear: this is a BIOS/UEFI limitation, not Windows). So you'll need to re-install Windows (not sure if a repair will fix that).
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