Does Upgrading Change Internal Drives Besides C Drive
Aug 4, 2015Almost all of the data I care about is on my other internal drives. Should I bother backing up my other drives, or does upgrading them leave them alone?
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Jul 29, 2015I'm sitting on my windows 7 here, ready to upgrade to windows 10 with the "Get Windows" app.
One complication though is that I'm running on an old harddrive. One of those simple SATA disks.
I got my hands on a new SSD disk which I would prefer to have windows on.
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Should I upgrade to windows 10 to begin with?
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