Add a Mechanical Drive to existing SSDD build - how and which one?

tju2an

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Hello folks!


About a month ago, my Spinpoint F3 crashed andd I have no idea how to revive it, so I bought an SSD with 40gigs ti use meanwhile.

Now It's time to install a mechanical drive to run all my programs on, but I'd prefer not to reinstall windows.



So the question is - Which disk am I to pick and how do I install it along with my current SSD?


Regards!
 

John_VanKirk

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Hello,

Depends how you are planning to use the HDD. If you want to use the SSD for the OS, and a HDD as a secondary drive for data, other programs, it just needs to be initialized, partitioned, and formatted.

If you want to clone everything over to a new HDD, and not use the SSD, you need to use a cloning applet supplied by most HDD manufacturers (WD or Seagate), free software downloads (EaseUS partition master, or Clonzilla), or commercial ones (Acronis True Image or Ghost).

Some of them require installation on your computer, others use a Linux based OS on disk so you can actually clone your system disk without removing it.