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At the moment my PC has only one OS installed, Vista 64 Home Premium on an HDD. I've never had or used a PC with a dual boot configuration. I'm adding an SSD soon and want to put a fresh install of the OS onto it and use it as the boot drive it instead of the current OS on the HDD. The reason I want 2 installs of the same OS on the PC is to make sure the SSD is stable and if not, I could revert back to booting from the HDD and not have to reinstall the OS onto the HDD. I have read horror stories on several forums where SSDs are installed and an OS put onto them and after a few days neither Windows nor bios will recognize the drive, for whatever reason. If that were to happen I could still use the PC by booting from the HDD. Will this configuration work? Can I have the same OS on the PC on 2 different drives and boot from them independently? I just want to make sure that the one OS won't conflict with the the same OS on another drive.
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My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Self Configured
- CPU
- Intel Q9650 4 x 3.00GHz
- Motherboard
- ASUS P5Q SE
- Memory
- OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 Gold Edition, 1066MHz, 8GB
- Graphics card(s)
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 - 1GB DDR3 RAM
- Sound Card
- Realtek ALC1200
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Hanns G
- Screen Resolution
- 1280 x 1084
- Hard Drives
- OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD; WD VelociRaptor 3000HLFS - 300GB 10,000RPM; Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 - 250GB 7200RPM
- PSU
- Be Quiet! Dark Power 750 Watt
- Case
- Black with silver trim & blue lights
- Cooling
- Huge case fan
- Mouse
- MS optical mouse
- Keyboard
- Acer
- Internet Speed
- DSL 2000
- Other Info
- Configured as a Gamer for Flight Simulators, Saitek X52 Flight Controler
