Desktop PC: Can I Have Same OS on 2 Different Drives?

[5er driver]

At the moment my PC has only one OS installed, Vista 64 Home Premium on an HDD. I've never had or used a PC with a dual boot configuration. I'm adding an SSD soon and want to put a fresh install of the OS onto it and use it as the boot drive it instead of the current OS on the HDD. The reason I want 2 installs of the same OS on the PC is to make sure the SSD is stable and if not, I could revert back to booting from the HDD and not have to reinstall the OS onto the HDD. I have read horror stories on several forums where SSDs are installed and an OS put onto them and after a few days neither Windows nor bios will recognize the drive, for whatever reason. If that were to happen I could still use the PC by booting from the HDD. Will this configuration work? Can I have the same OS on the PC on 2 different drives and boot from them independently?

Thanks,

 

[Theguy]

yea there shouldnt be any problem in doing what you want to do.
a different option perhaps would be to take a 'image' of your windows files, so if there are any problems, could be easier to get the computer back and going agian..?

 

[5er driver]

Thanks for the info. I just wanted to make sure that the one OS wouldn't conflict with the the same OS on another drive.