Install Windows 10 in separate ssd

MystyDust

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Hi everyone, any help is greatly apreciated.

I have a pc with a gigabyte ga-990xa-ud3 rev 3.0 with 2 hdd of 1tb each connected in raid 0 mode working as an unique hdd with Windows 7 in it.

What I want to do,and dont know if posible is this: buy a separate ssd to install a Windows 7 copy and then upgrade to Windows 10, but I don´t want to format my 2 hdd in raid.

So, is it posible to do that, having both Windows in separate disks? and dont having to unistall anything? I would only use the ssd to install the games y play the most and try them in Windows 7.

Or the option 2 I want to ask, is there a way to use an ssd in my rig using the other raid 0 disks migrating the Windows 7 onto the ssd?

Thanks in advance!
 
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Yes you can do this but first.

1) If you have reinstall with windows 7 on one and upgrade the other to windows 10 one of them WILL not be authentic and say that windows is not activated (I though with me having an OEM Laptop and installing off OEM (not having to put in a Product key) could get away with dual booting windows 7 and windows 10 but my windows 10 is not longer activated

2) RAID 0 is a big no no if you have anything important on there. if one drive failes you lose EVERYTHING. So unless you don't care what is on that RAID 0 or have a backup i would be more worried about that.
Yes you can do this but first.

1) If you have reinstall with windows 7 on one and upgrade the other to windows 10 one of them WILL not be authentic and say that windows is not activated (I though with me having an OEM Laptop and installing off OEM (not having to put in a Product key) could get away with dual booting windows 7 and windows 10 but my windows 10 is not longer activated

2) RAID 0 is a big no no if you have anything important on there. if one drive failes you lose EVERYTHING. So unless you don't care what is on that RAID 0 or have a backup i would be more worried about that.
 
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