How to stop PC from booting from specific drive?

[Necrosaro420]

Is there a way to stop my pc from booting from a specific drive in Windows 7? Right now I have my normal drive...I have alot of stuff on it, but no place to back it up to. I had purchased another hard drive, and plan on making it my main/boot drive. Is there something I can do to my current hard drive so that it will not boot, but yet still be accessable so I can access the files? (And delete c:\windows folder, etc) Thanks

 

[holden j caufield]

press f12 on most bios. It will bring up your boot device and you can choose. Of go to bios, choose boot device and select hard drive and you can select the order.

 

[thetechfreak]

See if you want to transfer the Windows C drive to another drive without loosing anything its not possible. The least that you will lose is the installed programs. An easy way is to install Windows on the other HDD too and delete the boot entry for the Old windows installation using EasyBCD.

That said do a backup of the important files. Dont blame me or anyone if you lose things

 

[sm625]

Change the boot order in the bios. Usually there are two separate setting related to boot devices. One setting ("boot priority") lets you pick from HDD, CD-ROM, USB, etc:

The other setting ("hard disk drives" or "hard disk boot priority") lets you pick between HDD-0, HDD-1, etc. That is the settingyou need to find and change.

The description they give is usually enough to tell which one is which.

 

[6string]

You need to make the old drive the secondary drive and the new one the primary. Then when you re-install the OS you can pick your new drive as the OS drive.