Hey guys!
I recently bought an SSD (still being shipped) and I will be installing Windows 8.1 on it. I have standard 7200rpm 1TB HDD with Win7 that will be my secondary.
My questions are:
1. Say I decide to install a game on the HDD with Win7. Can I run it just fine while I'm booted in Win8.1 on my SSD? Also if I'm installing new software BUT I want it saved on the HDD, do I install/DL the Win8 or Win7 version? (I'm aware that I won't be taking advantage of the SSD speeds when trying to run things from the HDD)
2. Which hard drive will the hardware (e.g. GPU) be looking for the drivers if I'm running the game from the HDD?
3. I know that I need to perform some SSD optimization settings (for example, turn off defrag if it doesn't do it automatically). If I want to continue to have defragmentation done on my HDD, will I have to boot from that drive instead of the SSD or can I still perform a defrag JUST on that disk while running my OS through the SSD.
Thanks for any assistance!
I recently bought an SSD (still being shipped) and I will be installing Windows 8.1 on it. I have standard 7200rpm 1TB HDD with Win7 that will be my secondary.
My questions are:
1. Say I decide to install a game on the HDD with Win7. Can I run it just fine while I'm booted in Win8.1 on my SSD? Also if I'm installing new software BUT I want it saved on the HDD, do I install/DL the Win8 or Win7 version? (I'm aware that I won't be taking advantage of the SSD speeds when trying to run things from the HDD)
2. Which hard drive will the hardware (e.g. GPU) be looking for the drivers if I'm running the game from the HDD?
3. I know that I need to perform some SSD optimization settings (for example, turn off defrag if it doesn't do it automatically). If I want to continue to have defragmentation done on my HDD, will I have to boot from that drive instead of the SSD or can I still perform a defrag JUST on that disk while running my OS through the SSD.
Thanks for any assistance!