I currently have a 640gb WD drive with 3 partitions (OS, work data, personal data). I just bought a 2nd 640gb WD drive to use as a backup drive. Now I'm about to do a clean install of vista to start a good backup routine from "day 1."
The plan is to move everything over to the new drive and set up 3 new partitions to port over the old data. ** I'm installing on the new drive to both get a fresh drive with no wear and also since I need to reconfigure partitions anyway, changing allotted sizes.
The question... Can I unhook the current drive, install Vista + partitions set up on the new drive (sata port 1), and then plug the old drive back in sata port 2 to copy over data? Or will the it detect the 2 OS's on boot and cause problems? I've never dual booted before, so maybe it will just ask which one i want to boot. I just want to make sure that when I format the (now) backup drive for all data backup, my system's not still looking for an OS to boot from on it.
Hopefully that makes sense. Any advise is appreciated.
The plan is to move everything over to the new drive and set up 3 new partitions to port over the old data. ** I'm installing on the new drive to both get a fresh drive with no wear and also since I need to reconfigure partitions anyway, changing allotted sizes.
The question... Can I unhook the current drive, install Vista + partitions set up on the new drive (sata port 1), and then plug the old drive back in sata port 2 to copy over data? Or will the it detect the 2 OS's on boot and cause problems? I've never dual booted before, so maybe it will just ask which one i want to boot. I just want to make sure that when I format the (now) backup drive for all data backup, my system's not still looking for an OS to boot from on it.
Hopefully that makes sense. Any advise is appreciated.