Remove original drive in dual boot system and replace Win 10 SSD? How?


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    Win 7 professional 64
       #1

    Remove original drive in dual boot system and replace Win 10 SSD? How?


    Here's the situation. I have a 17" Sager laptop with two hard drives set up with dual boot. The first drive is the OEM drive that came in the laptop and Win7. After I installed my work software, and made sure the machine was stable, I used the computer in this configuration for a few months. I then decided to set up dual boot using a Crucial SSD drive with Win7 in the vacant 2nd hard drive bay. This allowed me to work from the old drive while I organized the SSD with my work software. (AutoCad, Rhino, etc) and made sure it was stable. After the SSD setup, it became my primary drive, and I never used the OEM drive again.

    Now, with Win 10 about to be released, I was thinking about removing the idle l OEM drive and adding a new SSD and Win 10. (This would let me keep working from the Win7 SSD) However, If I remember correctly, the dual boot information (Boot Manager?) is on the original drive. Wouldn't removing that drive also disable the current Win 7 SSD?

    It has been about 3 years since I dug into a computer and much has changed. I'm hoping someone here can give me info, suggestions, or even a step by step procedure to get this right.

    thanks in advance.
      My Computer

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    Please post back a screenshot of Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image
    with all drives connected.
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  3. Posts : 35
    Win 7 professional 64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Ok. So WIN 10 is out and I have created a boot disk using MS creation tool and I have a new SSD for the OS. I'm hoping someone here can tell me the procedure to replace the old OEM HD with the SSD + Win 10 and keep the dual boot with my old SSD with Win 7. I'm assuming once I figure out the procedure, I can install Win 10 on the new SSD and it will ask for my Win 7 serial number and that will make everything good to go?

    Here is the disk management partition image as suggested.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Remove original drive in dual boot system and replace Win 10 SSD? How?-diskmanagement.jpg  
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