Question: Hey guys n gals, I have successfully transferred everything, and booted from my new SSD by unplugging my old HDD. I was unable to change the boot sequence in Dell’s BIOS apparently (I’m relatively new at this) …so I was suggested to immediately reboot with my old HDD unplugged, so that my PC would boot from it’s 2nd drive. Now that I’m on the SSD, am I safe to plug back in the HDD or will my PC start booting from the HDD again? …or can I plug it back in and format it, and have the PC boot from the only “bootable device” with Windows on it?
Thanks for your help!
Answer:
I am leaning towards yes, I dont mean to bug you with silly questions, I am just scared of course.
OK, heres a test.
Boot up with ONLY the SSD connected.
Create a text file on the desktop. Call it anything you like.
This file will exist ONLY on the SSD.
Now….connect that HDD.
Boot up.
Is that file still on the desktop?
If so…you are still booting from the SSD, and can clean everything off the HDD.