Making boot drive into secondary- new build

[TIMMY30]

Hi all,

Helping a friend out with her new build.

She currently is only running 1 HDD with windows 10 currently on it. Have just ordered all the new parts and have of course opted for an SSD as the boot drive. Plan is to use her current HDD as a secondary in the new system.

To format it am i just going to plug it in as normal after installing the OS onto the SSD and ensure that the bios boots from the ssd, then format in disk management as normal? Or am i missing something?.

Cheers in advance for the help.

Tim

[r8response]

When installing Windows onto the new SSD, make sure no other drives are plugged in (Just remove either the SATA cable or Power cable), you do this because Windows 8 and 10 like to create a 100MB System Reserved partition on another drive. So if you ever decide to use that drive in another PC (or even replace it entirely) there goes your boot info.

Once the entire process is completed, plug the old drive in and go ahead and format. Pretty straight forward, you seem to have the gist of it already.

[TIMMY30]

When installing Windows onto the new SSD, make sure no other drives are plugged in (Just remove either the SATA cable or Power cable), you do this because Windows 8 and 10 like to create a 100MB System Reserved partition on another drive. So if you ever decide to use that drive in another PC (or even replace it entirely) there goes your boot info.

Once the entire process is completed, plug the old drive in and go ahead and format. Pretty straight forward, you seem to have the gist of it already.

Cheers r8. I knew i could count on you to reply here .

[Duke]

Also I'm sure you would but before formatting the old HDD you could copy the My Documents, Pictures, Music, Movies, etc to the new SSD, assuming that's where they lived. You can also copy browser favourites.

[TIMMY30]

I was just going to get her to backup everything onto an external. But this may be a better/easier way. Cheers man