Can I connect HDD with win10 on it as secondary storage?

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Hello everyone,
I am kinda new to this.
I have SSD as my primary storage with win10 installed on it. I would like to add another 1TB of my old HDD with also win10 installed but different serial key.
Is that possible or will I have some issues?
Thanks
 
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If you are a very good file manager/explorer.exe geek, you could eliminate Windows from that hard-drive, however, it would be a many-many-step process. I second USAFRet's idea, it would much faster, much more thorough in the long run.
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Hello everyone,
I am kinda new to this.
I have SSD as my primary storage with win10 installed on it. I would like to add another 1TB of my old HDD with also win10 installed but different serial key.
Is that possible or will I have some issues?
Thanks
 
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RolandJS

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If you're thinking in terms of having an immediately-available backup of Windows 10, a better solution would be to make a full OS partition image and a full Data partition image onto that 2nd hard-drive. It is best to avoid having two Primary/Active hard-drives and best to avoid having two active operating systems "sniffable" by the computer during boot and load operations.
 
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gordibura

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How can I uninstall/remove win10 on my old HDD than? Without being forced to delete all my existing files...
I just want to have that extra space for some games I occasionally play like GTA V that are just too large ( 70 GB ) for my SSD on which i have 5 games already installed.
 
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Copy what you want from that drive to something else.
Wipe the drive.

Or even a different partition on that same drive.

It is actually non-trivial to wipe 'just windows', without affecting anything else.
 
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If you are a very good file manager/explorer.exe geek, you could eliminate Windows from that hard-drive, however, it would be a many-many-step process. I second USAFRet's idea, it would much faster, much more thorough in the long run.
 
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