Will a HDD with vista run as a secondary with a windows 7 system?

[Hevonis]

Well, I got my new computer everything is brilliant, but I want more space.

I have my old computer still. I am wondering if a hard drive with vista, will run as a secondary (actually tertiary) with another HDD that has windows 7 on it. What will happen on boot? Will it ask me which operating system to use?

,Thanks 😀

 

[jackson1420]

You can use that as a secondary drive. Just don't install Win 7 with the old drive installed at the same time. That is very important.

Just set the BIOS to boot to your Win 7 drive.

You can either create a folder and store your data in the old drive or shrink the partition to create a new partition as a second drive.

 

[johnnyb105]

Some drive comes with jumpers if your drive is a older one you can set it as slave. Being windows is the primary and vista as slave. but why keep vista format it and get that needed space. hope this helps

 

[jackson1420]

If you have a SATA drive then you don't have to worry about jumpers.

At least I have not seen that ever in the nearly 300 systems I have opened up.

Any new computer should come with a SATA drive without complicating jumpers to configure.