New SSD, Windows 10 ISO, Old HDD windows 7, Set up help.

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Remake12

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I have a new 512GB SSD and an old 1TB HDD with windows 7. I have a windows 10 ISO that i used for a desktop VM and I'm not sure i have the product key anymore.

I have a plan, but I'm not sure it will work.

I want to put windows 10 on my SSD and boot from that drive, but keep windows 7 on my old drive for a dual boot. I was thinking I could install the SSD as normal then mount the windows 10 ISO to my optical drive. Then I'd boot from the optical and install windows 10 on the SSD. Afterwards, I'd set the SSD as the boot device.

Finally, I want to move my applications to my SSD, but idk the best way to do this.
 
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Well if you leave the old hdd connected then install Win10 on the ssd , once it's finished it should give you a menu to select which hdd you want to boot into

ie: Dual boot. Thats why it's called dual boot and how you do it

You can also dual boot on the same hdd / if there's more than 1 partition. You dont have to use 2 hdd's to do it





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Paul NZ

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Leave the old hdd connected install Windows on the ssd. Wait for it to finish then it should be dual boot

But whats the point in having dual boot, if you're going to move everything to the ssd anyway. You cant just move programs to the ssd after

Unless you can clone them somehow, or reinstall them

 
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Remake12

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That's what I'm thinking too, but will this install method work? I can keep the old windows 7 OS on the HDD and not have to reformat the drive for the new OS? It would be cool to be able to pick either drive as the boot device and switch between operating systems.
 
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Remake12

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I'm going to reinstall certain applications on the SSD and keep everything else on the HDD. i have about .6TB full on the HDD and I'll install less than 100GB of apps on the SSD.
 
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Paul NZ

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Well if you leave the old hdd connected then install Win10 on the ssd , once it's finished it should give you a menu to select which hdd you want to boot into

ie: Dual boot. Thats why it's called dual boot and how you do it

You can also dual boot on the same hdd / if there's more than 1 partition. You dont have to use 2 hdd's to do it





 
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