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    Multiple Windows installations?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by hankaaron57, Apr 5, 2009.

  1. hankaaron57

    hankaaron57 Go BIG or go HOME

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    I'm going to get two 128 GB Samsung MLC drives (OS install) and then a 320 GB WD Scorpio for the optical drive connection, so three drives, and the two SSD's in RAID-0. It will appear to the computer as 'two' drives. Do I need to install Windows to my Scorpio (was planning to just use it for backup/images/pictures/music/storage) as well as my RAID-0 configuration?

    Also, what if I decide to make a couple partitions on the RAID-0 configuration? Will this be possible on an SSD just as a HDD?
     
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    FoxTrot1337 Notebook Deity

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    No you do not.
    -As for the questions pretaining to the raid, I have no idea.
     
    FoxTrot1337, Apr 5, 2009
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    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    No you don't need to install windows twice.

    BTW... if you're only going to use the hdd for storage, why not just mount the volume as a folder in windows.

    The 2SSD and the HDD will appears as 1 drive.
    You can mount your hdd to a folder in say "Storage" inside your "user" folder. You can redirect "my documents", "my music" etc to "Storage" folder.
     
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    hankaaron57 Go BIG or go HOME

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    Thank you for the response. This is what I thought, so then my next question is, what is with all the guides on desktopreview for parallel windows installations and stuff? Is it just for backup?
     
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    jackluo923 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Could you post up a link to the "guides" that you're talking about?
     
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    hankaaron57 Go BIG or go HOME

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    OH god. I just had like 23 windows open reading them one-by-one, and of course I get the subscription email that there's a response to this thread and I just closed the window to it. I'm too lazy to refind it :( It basically talked about sticking windows on a second drive rather than formatting everything, so there were two working windows installations. Now that I think about it, I'm gonna' venture a guess it could be two different versions of Windows..
     
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    gazzacbr Notebook Evangelist

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    prolly dual-booting windows, easy method is to use second drive keeping both installations seperate.
     
    gazzacbr, Apr 6, 2009
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