Will popping out my hard drive, installing windows 8 on a new one....

[BriniaSona]

(You guys said not to have a short thread title)

I want to Install windows 8 on my laptop. Here's my idea:

Pop out my hard drive with all my windows 7 stuff on it and pop in another hard drive, then install windows 8 and hope for the best.

My questions is after all is said and done, will I be able to put my old hard drive back in, and have no problems booting up windows 7 and playing my games and using my programs and what not?

 

[mickey megabyte]

yes, that will be ok.

make sure you keep hold of that 7 drive, 8 is a bit controversial, to say the least...

...if you have any questions about 8, check out eightforums.com

 

[BriniaSona]

I would never lose that windows 7 drive, all my games are on that and lots of expensive programs. But thank you for clarifying and confirming that.

 

[mickey megabyte]

one hard drive won't know about the existence of the other.

do you have your data (music, pictures etc) on an external drive, or up in the cloud - ie is it available?

 

[BriniaSona]

Yeah my music and stuff is on an external drive.

I hope that doesn't effect anything. It'll also be the first time I've cracked this laptop open.

 

[mickey megabyte]

changing hdd's on a laptop is very simple, i'm sure you won't have any trouble.

enjoy!

 

[BriniaSona]

O: I've done it plenty of times on my toshiba amd acer, just don't wannt to corrupt ot lose data, I need the windows 7 drive. Lol. Now to find out if I can boot windows 8 onto a clean hard drive.

 

[gregrocker]

Back up also a System image to external so you can reimage the HD or replacement in 20 minutes if necessary: Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup