Windows 10: Hard drive with Win10 keeps crashing to hard drive with Win7

Hello,


I'm not sure if this is even a Windows issue but I thought I'd try to see if maybe anyone can shed some insight as to what the heck is going on with my computer!


I have a HDD with Win7 installed and as a partition from way back when. I've since gotten a SSD with Win10 and use my HDD for storage with Win7 still on it. Every so often, my computer will freeze and/or boot up Win7 out of nowhere. This results in me restarting and going to my bios to select booting from my SSD. Lately this has been happening pretty often. Before it would be once every few months but now it's been at least 3x just this week.


Would it be possible to uninstall Win7 from my HDD and just keep it for storage without losing any of my data? I'm hoping this will fix the problem.


Or maybe it's a hardware issue and not software? I don't know... I'm not too "tech-y".


Thank you in advance for your help!

:)

 

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Overclock your hard drive!!!

Heres a much easier hack that I realized quite a few years ago that really does work!

REQUIREMENTS:

• Hard drive with molex power connection.
• PSU with more than 1 strand that has molex plugs on it.
• Wire strippers, soldering iron if you're fancy, electrical tape if you're not.

STEPS:

• Take the strand of connectors from your PSU, and decide which one will be the donator for this overclocking adventure.
• Cut the yellow and orange cables, then twist them together.
• Find the power connector you've chosen as the overclocking connector, and release the orange cable from the connector. Now use your preferred method to bind them together, then place it back together.
• Plug in a drive and feel the speed!

Congratulations! You've just overclocked your hard drive!