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Could I do this?

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ManBearPig

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I have Win 7 installed on a regular, really crappy HDD on my laptop but want an SSD.

Could i just leave Win 7 on my HDD, put in an SSD, install Win 7 on the SSD, use the SSD as my main drive, but swap in the HDD for the SSD when I want to add pictures? That's really all I'd need to store on there that takes up a lot of space which I wouldn't put on my SSD (my music library I want on the SSD).

As long as I'm not using both drives at the same time there should be no conflicts, correct?

Thanks!
 
May I ask why you want to do that? I'd think it'd be simpler to just clone the mechanical hd over to the SSD, wipe the mech. when you're sure the SSD is working properly, then wipe it, use it as a storage drive and maybe do a backup of your OS to it.
 
Yes, you can do this, although by constantly swapping drives you increase the odds of damaging something. And you will have 2 copies of Windows to keep patched and up to date (which, to stay legal, will also require 2 licenses).

Your life might be easier if you threw the mechanical drive into an external enclosure so that it is easier to connect/disconnect.
 
The mechanical answer is a removable drive bay. As to the license you only need the one as long as only one copy is it use at a time. Drive cloning is the easy route as others have stated
 
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The only reason I want to do this is because I have no where to really put the stuff that's ON the drive before I wipe it and put the stuff back on. I can't use them concurrently because I need some kind of bay adapter for my laptop (dell e6400).

So aside from having no where to put the stuff before I wipe it and use it as a storage drive, using it externally would definitely be my best option.
 
You can connect USB (external HD, or Flash) to the computer.

Use a Boot Acronis True Image Plus (TI) to backup the current internal Drive to the external USB Storage.

Then put the New drive In, and Ghost the backup image file onto the new drive with the None Similar option (that will adjust the ghosting to the SSD drive).

The the old storage drive can be wiped later when it is in its' storage position.

P.S., Drives that are Ghosted back with TI are wiped TI before it installs the image.
 
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