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Reusing a master HDD with corrupt OS as a slave...couple questions!
I will try and explain my situation as short and sweet as possible!
My current desktop (about a year and a half old) decided that it was going to corrupt Windows 7 beyond repair. Thankfully my hard drive is fine--hooked it up to my husband's computer and was able to use it as a slave and back up all the info.
I have to buy/install a new copy of Windows 7, but this time I'm getting an SSD to put the OS, Photoshop, and my games on and then I plan to use my current hard drive as the slave.
I'm having a hard time figuring out a couple things due to my lack of knowledge/experience:
--will having the corrupt OS on the slave device impact the new install at all and can I/should I uninstall the corrupt OS off the slave?
--will I be able to run the programs that are already on the hard drive, when it's a slave?
--the two programs I'm worried about running into problems with is Photoshop (which I want to take off the slave and put on the SSD) and then Microsoft Office. If I can continue to use Office on the slave ,then no problem, but if I have to reinstall, will I be able to uninstall the original so that there isn't issues with the licensing (I've used the max licenses allowed with my disk)?
I've never used multiple hard drives so I'm having a hard time pre-figuring out issues I might run into. Thanks in advance!