Fresh install of windows 7 on two ssds

Hi all.
I started a thread regarding having to dual boot win 7 and 10 using f8 key to choose hard drive to boot.

It seems the pc doesnt like this and keeps asking to check disks on start up whichever OS I choose.

I now have decided I want to get rid of 10 and set up two users. ..on separate ssd drives to both hand windows 7.

My game plan is back up stuff on my third drive....format both ssds and install win 7.

Anyone see any glaring issues that might arise?

You want to have one SSD with win 7 for one user and a second SSD with win 7 for another user? Why?

Install Win 7 on one SSD, install the drivers and updates then clone the SSD to the second SSD.
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If you do two separate installs of Windows 7 on the same computer, you are needlessly complicating your life:

• You'll need two Windows 7 licenses. If your computer came with Windows 7 installed, you can use that license for one of them; but you'll need another license for the other one.
• You will need to regularly reboot into each one and run Windows updates.
• You'll need anti-virus on each one.
• You'll need to install all software on each one (which may mean that you'll need multiple software licenses).
• You'll need to do regular backups on each one.

Rather than do two installs, why not do one install, and then set up two separate user accounts in the one install?
You could use drive #2 for your data, and drive #3 for backups. This would greatly simplify backups: backup your data drive regularly (say, once per week), and backup your Windows drive occasionally (say, once every couple of months).

Also, if you take your computer in for service, you could remove drives #2 and #3, thereby keeping your data from possibly being stolen (if that is a concern to you).

Interesting responses everyone...

I wanted to have my partner have a drive to herself and me my own one as she uses it for work and I mainly use it for gaming therefore I need the bigger hard drive.

In terms of cloning.....does that mean I can set up myself on one SSD then clone it to second hard drive and then edit the user account to show my partners details?

mcbgun said:

In terms of cloning.....does that mean I can set up myself on one SSD then clone it to second hard drive and then edit the user account to show my partners details?

Yes. If you don't want a user to see the other drive, do what Brien suggested(post #4). Set the other drive with no letter so it doesn't show on Explorer.

mcbgun said:

I wanted to have my partner have a drive to herself and me my own one as she uses it for work and I mainly use it for gaming therefore I need the bigger hard drive.

You could have two data drives, in addition to your Windows drive -- one for you and one for her. But I would never recommend having two separate Windows installs on the same computer, because you are needlessly complicating your life by setting things up this way.

If your data drive is big enough, then there's no reason the one data drive couldn't be shared by both of you.

mcbgun said:

In terms of cloning.....does that mean I can set up myself on one SSD then clone it to second hard drive and then edit the user account to show my partners details?

If you are needing a big Windows drive for what you do, then get one big Windows drive which is shared by both of you. Cloning would be for making a backup copy of Windows, not for setting up your working copy of Windows.

Many thanks for all suggestions which I will take on board when setting up.