windows on 2 disks?

[Flawizz]

i currently have windows running on an hdd. im planning on buying a 120 gb ssd and just plug it in and put windows on it and have boot priority on the ssd, but will the windows which is installed on the hdd interfere with ssd? could anything go wrong? (sorry for my bad english)

 

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

It won't interfere if  the boot priority prefers the SSD, it will just run as a secondary drive, with Windows running off the SSD.

[Flawizz]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

It won't interfere if  the boot priority prefers the SSD, it will just run as a secondary drive, with Windows running off the SSD.

but i've seen videos where people migrate windows from hdd to ssd. people struggling with backups and re installing everything. why not just have windows on both?

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, Flawizz said:

but i've seen videos where people migrate windows from hdd to ssd. people struggling with backups and re installing everything. why not just have windows on both?

That's an issue with migrating Windows, not having Windows on multiple drives. I'd advise doing a clean install when moving to an SSD. Trying to migrate Windows can cause plenty of problems (though that's not because of having it on multiple drives). 

 

There's no point in having Windows on both drives for normal use. If you want two different builds of Windows, then I guess having it on both drives could make sense. 

[Flawizz]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

That's an issue with migrating Windows, not having Windows on multiple drives. I'd advise doing a clean install when moving to an SSD. Trying to migrate Windows can cause plenty of problems (though that's not because of having it on multiple drives). 

 

There's no point in having Windows on both drives for normal use. If you want two different builds of Windows, then I guess having it on both drives could make sense. 

if you had a pc with just an hdd with windows on (filled with games which take up about 900gb) and  just received your ssd to put windows on, what would you do?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, Flawizz said:

if you had a pc with just an hdd with windows on (filled with games which take up about 900gb) and  just received your ssd to put windows on, what would you do?

Do a clean install of Windows on the SSD. If the games can be run without something like Steam, then that's great. If they use a launcher like Steam, then install Steam on the SSD, then set the donwload and game directories to where they are on your HDD. When you go to "download" a game on Steam, it will find the files that are already there, rather than re-downloading them.