Question Install OS on drive with data

[NikeFan1234]

Can I install my OS on an SSD that already has games and data on it?
Or should I move those files to hdd before installing windows on the ssd?
And what would be the consequences if i installed windows on my ssd that already has data on it?

 

[Grobe]

And what would be the consequences if i installed windows on my ssd that already has data on it?

this: That data is assumed lost and not being recoverable by any means.

 

[NikeFan1234]

So it would be best to move the files first?

 

[USAFRet]

So it would be best to move the files first?

Installing an OS, you should consider anything and everything on it to be gone gone gone.
You really need to start with a blank drive.

Are there ways to do it otherwise?
Yeah. But, as said elsewhere, you really really really need a good backup of all that stuff, just to ward off mistakes.