Installing Win10 on primary SSD -Secondary 3.5" HD ok?

gizmo1990 · 22 Apr 2020 at 11:01

I'm finally going to update a Win7 machine to 10 but thought I'd ask a quick question first.

I have 2 drives in it, a 250gb SSD which the OS has and a 1tb 3.5" for media etc. Given that I'll do a wipe of the SSD and simply install 10, is there any reason to worry about the new OS simply picking up the 3.5" and carrying on as usual? I'll do a backup of that too of course, but thought I'd just check if there's any hidden issues with a new OS reading an already in use HD?

Any advice much appreciated.

DFish · 22 Apr 2020 at 11:16

the 1tb 3.5 will be untouched in the update.

Fish

linktoinsanity · 22 Apr 2020 at 11:25

I would unplug the HD when installing the upgrade, just to stop Windows from putting the boot sector on the hard drive (which it sometimes likes to do), but once this is done, replugging in the hard drive and using it as it currently is should be fine in Windows 10.

Armageus · 22 Apr 2020 at 11:27

linktoinsanity said:
I would unplug the HD when installing the upgrade, just to stop Windows from putting the boot sector on the hard drive (which it sometimes likes to do), but once this is done, replugging in the hard drive and using it as it currently is should be fine in Windows 10.

+1 Always best to play it safe

gizmo1990 · 22 Apr 2020 at 14:33

Thanks for the replies everyone. Good point about unplugging the drive, will do!

Mcnumpty2323 · 22 Apr 2020 at 14:38

+1 for only having the os drive connected during Windows install
Possibility the hdd may have boot record on it depending what was connected during previous installs
Though once the ssd is up and running
If that's the case should be sortable

gizmo1990 · 4 May 2020 at 18:28

I've got this sorted pretty much, however having just connected the 1tb 3.5 back up, windows has labeled it as drive F. So I've gone into disk management to rename it D, but there already appears to be something called that.. Oddly, Disk Management is calling it Disk 2, Removeable, No media. Presumably this is from when I've been using USB drives, but I've nothing attach currently and it's still showing up. Is it ok to remove this? It should be shouldn't it?

Mcnumpty2323 · 4 May 2020 at 18:32

gizmo1990 said:
I've got this sorted pretty much, however having just connected the 1tb 3.5 back up, windows has labeled it as drive F. So I've gone into disk management to rename it D, but there already appears to be something called that.. Oddly, Disk Management is calling it Disk 2, Removeable, No media. Presumably this is from when I've been using USB drives, but I've nothing attach currently and it's still showing up. Is it ok to remove this? It should be shouldn't it?

Might be something like a printer etc
That can accept a memory card

gizmo1990 · 4 May 2020 at 18:55

That's a good point. I've nothing attached though. It's not showing up in the upper Volume window either, just the bottom one.

Mcnumpty2323 · 4 May 2020 at 18:57

gizmo1990 said:
That's a good point. I've nothing attached though. It's not showing up in the upper Volume window either, just the bottom one.

Just change its drive letter to z or whatever
Then change the other to d