Windows 10: How to install a second hard drive that has windows 10 on to dual boot with? (Absolute noob...

Ok so long story short about a year ago I upgraded my pc (for gaming) and my old 250gb hard drive is still in my old computer sitting in my room.

I want to know, how can I take it out, put it in my new pc, and be able to boot from it and use it basically as a seperate install of Windows 10 (it was originally a windows 7 one but i got the free update) with seperate programs and stuff?

(I use my new hard drive in my pc only for gaming, the old one has lots of random stuff on it but stuff I want to keep)

What I might add also is the new pc came with 2 hard drives. One a solid state drive that is 250gb that has the operating system on , the other is a HDD that I put all my games from steam on.

I just have no idea what to do nor what I'm really talking about here. I bought these pc's pre built. The new one, a year ago. The old one, was originally bought in 2013.

I thought it was time to get savvy and instead of literally buying a whole new pc next time I'll learn to do stuff like this.

So, what should I do? What am I supposed to plug the hard drive in to? (My new pc has loads of space inside the case and unused wires not plugged in anywhere)

And then, how do I set it up so I get to choose what hard drive to load up from when I turn the pc on?

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windows xp installation and dual core am

could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx

 

Dual Booting with Windows 8.1


The procedure below will allow you to boot Windows separately or in dual boot configuration.
Here's what I recommend to do:

1. Disconnect the drive containing Windows 8.1
2. Install Windows 10 with one drive connected.
3. After step 2, reconnect the drive containing Windows 8.1
4. Boot up Windows 8.1. Open disk management and take a note of the drive letter of Windows 10 OS.
   NOTE: if you boot up Windows 10, then take a note of Windows 8.1 drive letter
5. Open Admin command prompt and type: bcdboot X:\windows where X: is the drive letter of Windows 10 (Windows 8.1 if you boot from Windows 10 in step 4)
6. Reboot the PC. You should have a dual boot screen.

NOTE: To break off the dual boot setting, Win+R->msconfig->boot and delete the none default entry on the list.

 

Wondering about a second hard drive and installing Vista on it and also a ..

iv'e had too many problems to list like that, thats why i suggested disconnecting the original drive(s) and using the BIOS to choose what drive to boot from.