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Hi tomorrow i will be upgrading my pc (CPU,Ram and mobo) so i will need to install new windows i am switching from win7 to win8 but i have a few questions.

currently i have my win7 on old samsung 750gb hdd and on the 2nd hdd which is WD black 1tb i have video files, pictures, music.... so how can i install win8 on my WD black. will this work or am i missing a step.

i will transfer all files from wd black to samsung hdd and then i will install win8 to wd black and after that when i will be using win8 i will transfer files from samsung hdd to wd black.

if i left win7 on my samsung hdd will it maybe interfere with with win8. can i leave files on wd black and install win8 on it
 
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Hi there avto96,

Yes you can install Win 8 on WD Black. You just need to transfer the files to the other HDD. WD Black will become your primary drive in your upgraded system. After that you can attach your old drive and set it up as a secondary one(not in boot order) and just transfer the data. I think that there should be no issues with this process.
It will be good to install OS while only one drive is attached to the system. So, after you transfer the data to your Win 7 HDD, you can take it out of the system and put it back after Win 8 is installed.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
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Hi there avto96,

Yes you can install Win 8 on WD Black. You just need to transfer the files to the other HDD. WD Black will become your primary drive in your upgraded system. After that you can attach your old drive and set it up as a secondary one(not in boot order) and just transfer the data. I think that there should be no issues with this process.
It will be good to install OS while only one drive is attached to the system. So, after you transfer the data to your Win 7 HDD, you can take it out of the system and put it back after Win 8 is installed.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD
 
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thanks just a couple more questions so after installing win8 on my wd black will it change to letter C ? because now i have as M do i have to delete wd blacks partition or something like that. and what will happen to current samsung C drive do i need to do anything else than put it in my pc and make sure that wd black is set as primary drive in BIOS

 
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