Hi. I'm sorry if this has been asked and answered, but I've been looking through the forums for about an hour now with no luck.
My desktop computer is about 5-6 years old. I recently purchased a Samsung Evo 850 SSD and installed it in my computer. I followed the tutorial on here for a fresh/clean install and booted it from a usb and it works great. It's a lot faster than the old drive.
My desktop tower has three slots for hard drives. The old hard drive is in the first spot. I put the SSD in the second spot. To hook it up, I simply unplugged the old hard drive and put those plugs into the new one. So the old hard drive is still in the computer, just not hooked up to anything.
I understand I can use the old hard drive for storage. All my old files and junk are still on it. All I have on this new drive is windows and chrome internet browser. My question is, If I plug the old hard drive in back at the same time as the new one, will the hard drives, for a lack of better terms, be confused as to which one is primary? I want the ssd to be the primary C drive, and the old hard drive just as a storage drive. I don't know what will happen if they're both connected if there will be some kind of issue.
So basically, do I just plug the old hard drive in and it will know it's no longer the C drive? Or will it try to take back over again as primary and conflict with the ssd? I'm new to all this, so I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, just don't want to do any damage. I appreciate any help. Thanks guys.
-Mike
My desktop computer is about 5-6 years old. I recently purchased a Samsung Evo 850 SSD and installed it in my computer. I followed the tutorial on here for a fresh/clean install and booted it from a usb and it works great. It's a lot faster than the old drive.
My desktop tower has three slots for hard drives. The old hard drive is in the first spot. I put the SSD in the second spot. To hook it up, I simply unplugged the old hard drive and put those plugs into the new one. So the old hard drive is still in the computer, just not hooked up to anything.
I understand I can use the old hard drive for storage. All my old files and junk are still on it. All I have on this new drive is windows and chrome internet browser. My question is, If I plug the old hard drive in back at the same time as the new one, will the hard drives, for a lack of better terms, be confused as to which one is primary? I want the ssd to be the primary C drive, and the old hard drive just as a storage drive. I don't know what will happen if they're both connected if there will be some kind of issue.
So basically, do I just plug the old hard drive in and it will know it's no longer the C drive? Or will it try to take back over again as primary and conflict with the ssd? I'm new to all this, so I'm sorry if this is a dumb question, just don't want to do any damage. I appreciate any help. Thanks guys.
-Mike