Will this work as a boot-able drive? Meaning after I install an O/S: my other drive is completely out of the equation. Can I do that with this?
262483
That question would be more if you computer supports booting up from an external drive. Any drive is just that a storage device. So this question goes to your computer not the drive you will use.
968022
Yes you can. You can add the SSD to the drive bay from the front of the system which is pretty awesome. I tried the hard way and well failed because of the OS i was trying with. But since then I've left the OS on the main drive which is fast... And everything that's important gets installed on my SSD and it's fast.
2047834
The OS is stored on the hard drive. If you just change the mobo it should still boot right up without any problem. You may have to re validate your Windows installation. If it gives you a message to do this after a period of time it should take your product key. If it won't work then you will have to call Microsoft and they will likely help you with it. This has been a great Motherboard for me. Good luck.
1038705
Yes. I am running my OS on this drive. I had to switch to legacy boot mode to get it to work.
366072
Yes. I used it in mine and it's been a great tool. Much better than the optical drive. I did have some connection troubles with it and therefore it was not stable enough to be the boot drive. I therefore use it for all storage material and the internal HD just for applications.
927461
Yes, that's what I did. Just make sure to change the boot order in the bios to your external optical disk, then back to hdd as primary when finished.
504792
Yes, the drive is compatible and would probably boost your performance if employed as a boot drive.
330260
I was just able to partition a drive and load it on both computers. I've been useing a lot of answers from the internet for loading and moveing stuff around.
1848350
In short, No. It won't allow you to install it over a newer operating system, and since this is an upgrade disk, you can't do a clean install or even a dual boot install with this disk (unless you have a full version disk for an older operating system).
1731435
OS is installed on SSD drive, I removed the 750 drive and replaced with 256G SSD. I did not raid the drives since I want to run games from the 256 SSD and keep OS and other programs on the 128SSD.
735062
I don't understand your question. I'm not sure how you would run two operating systems at the same time. I suppose you could set up the motherboard to allow for dual boot. The bottom line is, if you have a particular drive powered on (front button pushed in) then your motherboard treats the drive like it would if you weren't using this push button device. Don't over think its purpose. It either connects power to the drive or removes it.
1925233
I think so, as you won't be using is as the boot drive. You should.be able to access any good files.
1088528
The drive comes like any other drive and can be used with any OS that supports hard drives. There is no reason why multiple OS installs can't be made on it, following the standard multi-boot issues.
843672
Yes, the install offers an upgrade or to do a full (clean) install which is what I did. If you're putting an SSD and hard drive in to your machine, don't connect the hard drive until after the install if you want the OS to be on the SSD. The installer can get confused if you have more than one drive available.
723799
I'm not sure. That might be needed. I still haven't been able to get mine to work in either drive yet.
2068699
Depends on what makes the drive not accessible. If the drive is not accessible (not booting up) because of bad Windows files, then perhaps you can access other files that may be alright... If the drive has internal hardware or sector damage then probably not...
761379
I bought for something other than a Pc, so I'm not sure. What operating system? I recently had to learn a trick to get my PC to assign the drive. It saw it, but did nothing with it until I took a certain step.