SSD and a second hard drive

[Coolharmony2]

Hello,

In my computer, i have a SSD and a second hard drive.

I have windows 7.

I want to upgrade to windows 10.

will i see the same config for my hard drive after the update to windows 10 ?

recognize all hard drive in windows 10.

Thank-you !

Daniel

 

[dave_the_nerd]

That's how it worked for me.

 

[corkyg]

You certainly should.

 

[KingFatty]

As a related question, would there be any reason to disconnect your secondary drive, before running the Windows 10 update?

I ask because common advice for clean-installing windows is to disconnect all secondary drives, and just leave the SSD primary drive connected/powered on during clean install.

I'm guessing the advice still holds true for clean installing Windows 10 (but please also verify if that's still the case that we should disconnect all secondary drives when clean installing Win 10).

So for OP, are you doing the upgrade procedure, keeping your old settings/files from Win 7 in place, and just installing Windows 10 over it? Or are you clean installing Windows 10 and fully resetting the whole computer?

 

[Coolharmony2]

i will keep same config windows 7.

keep my files.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

As a related question, would there be any reason to disconnect your secondary drive, before running the Windows 10 update?

I ask because common advice for clean-installing windows is to disconnect all secondary drives, and just leave the SSD primary drive connected/powered on during clean install.

I'm guessing the advice still holds true for clean installing Windows 10 (but please also verify if that's still the case that we should disconnect all secondary drives when clean installing Win 10).

So for OP, are you doing the upgrade procedure, keeping your old settings/files from Win 7 in place, and just installing Windows 10 over it? Or are you clean installing Windows 10 and fully resetting the whole computer?

If you just let the installer guess which drive you want to install Windows on, it will probably guess wrong, or use MBR instead of GPT, or... etc.

There's a custom install option in the windows installer that lets you format disks, create new partitions, pick a destination disk, etc.

OTOH, if you just unplug all but one drive, then you just load the installer and click "continue" a bunch of times. No potential for human error.

It's one of those "it's only easy if you know what you're doing" things.