I was thinking about installing windows 7 and upgrading to windows 10. (home edition) I was wondering if it was possible to get all of my files, folders and programs to work with the new hard drive. (my files stay in place, and i use the drive with windows 10 on it to access all of my files folders, and programs from the other hard drive) is this possible, or do I need to reinstall all my programs onto the new hard drive?
2 hard drives and many questions
- Thread starter doneyu
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c:/ is my windows 10 pro (unactivated hard drive) and e:/ is my only other hard drive, that I have an unactivated windows 7 home premium os on it. I have windows 7 unactivated becuase im kind of lazy, but windows 10 pro isn't activated because I don't have a product key. I was going to use the one with windows 7 on it. Can I, if I have the hard drives set up in a raid, put my program files onto the desktop of the windows 7 hard drive, and keep them on the windows 10 hard drive? c:/ is a 1tb hard drive with 550 give or take gb used and e:/ is a 300 give or take gb hard drive.
jsmithepa
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Raid-0, Raid-1, Raid-2...?
The desktop only hold a bunch of icons and shortcuts, most applications let you place your programs anywhere.
Do you ever notice when you install something, one of the first thing they ask you is, "Installing c:\program files..." and gives you a CHANGE button, and most of the time we just hit the OK button instead?
(I closed down the other forum, because I would have had 2 trying to figure out how to do the same thing....figuring out how to have windows 10 home with hard drives.) And apparently, I was mistaken becase the drive I accually had windows 7 on it has 120 gb. The one that has windows vista on it is the 300 gb hard drive
c:/ for right now, is the windows 10 drive, the one that Im using. I have the e:/ drive as a 300 gb hard drive and I want to keep all my most important files, folders and documents on that. I also have an h:/ drive, the one that has windows 7 on it. I want to have windows 10 home on that drive, and then have the ability to access all my games, files and folders from the windows 10 home version on the h:/ drive. I don't have any space to move any of the files and folders from the c: drive to an external. I also dont' want to have to reinstall everything that I have. For example: I want to have windows 10 home on the h: drive, and have google chrome stored on the c: drive. I have a shortcut to use google chrome on the h: drive, but the data is on the c: drive. or is this impossible?
the main hard drive im using right now is the windows 10 pro that I don't have a product key for. It is a 1 tb hard drive. I have a 300 gb hard drive im going to use for files and folders. I have a 120 gb hard drive that Im going to use for windows 10 home.
- Mar 16, 2013
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OK...
Remove all other drives
Update your valid Windows 7 to Win 10 on that 120GB drive
Clone/migrate that to whatever other drive you wish
Reconnect your other drive(s)
Reinstall all your applications
Your "windows 10 pro that I don't have a product key for" is useless without a valid legal license key.
Delete it, or buy a valid license key.
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