Can I boot to my 1tb hard drive with a 256mg ssd drive

[pcgamer2013]

I recently upgraded my computer. I have a 1tb hard drive, it's full. I just put a 256 ssd drive in. The 1tb hard drive is set as main and the ssd is set as secondery. I installed a fresh version of windows 7 in the ssd drive. The guy that did this told me that I can't boot to my old 1tb with a ssd drive. That would cause my major problems, I have a lot of things on the 1tb. I was wondering if it's possible to boot to either drive I want to or someway to make it work. I am hoping the guy that told me this was just wrong.

 

[USAFRet]

You're both actually kind of incorrect.
You don't 'boot' one drive with another.

The OS resides on a drive. That's what you boot from. The other drive is secondary.

Ideally, the SSD should be your boot drive.
You can access stuff on the other drive easily, though. It just shows up as D or whatever.

 

[pcgamer2013]

ah okay. Thanks. I have never used more then one hard drive before.

 

[pcgamer2013]

You're both actually kind of incorrect.
You don't 'boot' one drive with another.

The OS resides on a drive. That's what you boot from. The other drive is secondary.

Ideally, the SSD should be your boot drive.
You can access stuff on the other drive easily, though. It just shows up as D or whatever.

I have a lot of videos saved on the 1tb can, so can I access the 1tb drive and play them witthout having to move them over to the ssd drive?

 

[USAFRet]

You're both actually kind of incorrect.
You don't 'boot' one drive with another.

The OS resides on a drive. That's what you boot from. The other drive is secondary.

Ideally, the SSD should be your boot drive.
You can access stuff on the other drive easily, though. It just shows up as D or whatever.

I have a lot of videos saved on the 1tb can, so can I access the 1tb drive and play them witthout having to move them over to the ssd drive?

Yes. It just appears as another drive letter.
In my current system, I have 4 drives. 2 x SSD and 2 x HDD.