Ok a few questions here. I currently have a 500gb SSD with Windows 7 on it. I sometimes work from home and my computer has access to my work system. Even though is would be near impossible for someone not knowing how, it makes me paranoid. I have a lot of people in my house and I don't want to take any chances. Currently I have the drive fully encrypted, so it would be impossible without the passphrase to access, but I hate having to enter the phrase every time and I feel like a jerk that I can't share my PC.
I just bought another copy of Windows 7, that I plan to upgrade to Windows 10, and a 1tb SSD. I want to keep my current SSD with windows 7 intact and install the new copy of 7 on the new drive, and make that my new primary. I don't want the option to come up as to which drive/OS to boot into, I want it to just boot into the new drive unless I go into the boot menu at startup and choose the encrypted drive. How would I go about this? That way I don't have to worry about someone using my pc, they would just boot into the main drive and have no access to anything work related.
Another issue I am worrying about complicating things, I have 2 standard HDDs currently installed along with the SSD. I have files on one of the HDDs that I need to access from my current SSD, and the other one I want to use to backup the new SSD, but I will make it external. Am I going to mess anything up when I move the drives around? I was thinking I would leave the SSD and it's backup drive where they are, and put the new SSD where I currently have the backup drive I am going to make external. Good idea?
I just bought another copy of Windows 7, that I plan to upgrade to Windows 10, and a 1tb SSD. I want to keep my current SSD with windows 7 intact and install the new copy of 7 on the new drive, and make that my new primary. I don't want the option to come up as to which drive/OS to boot into, I want it to just boot into the new drive unless I go into the boot menu at startup and choose the encrypted drive. How would I go about this? That way I don't have to worry about someone using my pc, they would just boot into the main drive and have no access to anything work related.
Another issue I am worrying about complicating things, I have 2 standard HDDs currently installed along with the SSD. I have files on one of the HDDs that I need to access from my current SSD, and the other one I want to use to backup the new SSD, but I will make it external. Am I going to mess anything up when I move the drives around? I was thinking I would leave the SSD and it's backup drive where they are, and put the new SSD where I currently have the backup drive I am going to make external. Good idea?