Hello and thank you for taking the time to answer my question.
Currently I am dual booting W7 & W8. (2 HDD's) I have EasyBCD on the W7 partition>1st HDD. (Used this because I did not like the W8 boot loader.)
I want to install a new HDD in the PC to replace the one that W8 resides on> 2nd HDD. (I am going to put W7 on it...The plan is to put my current W7 files on it so I can format the 1st W7 drive...It's a larger and faster drive.) BTW...I am NOT installing W8 on either one of these drives...just W7.
My question is...what's my best plan of action? My goal was to take out 2nd HDD (W8), place in new HDD, install W7. Would the new install see the 2 drives by the W7 boot loader or by Easy BCD?
OR should I uninstall Easy BCD first before doing all this? If I did this wouldn't I have to have W8 reload the Bootloader again? I want to do this as simple as possible & not to mess with my W7 (1st HDD) whatsoever. I need to boot into it.
I hope I haven't confused anyone. Thank you very much in advance for your recommendation.
Currently I am dual booting W7 & W8. (2 HDD's) I have EasyBCD on the W7 partition>1st HDD. (Used this because I did not like the W8 boot loader.)
I want to install a new HDD in the PC to replace the one that W8 resides on> 2nd HDD. (I am going to put W7 on it...The plan is to put my current W7 files on it so I can format the 1st W7 drive...It's a larger and faster drive.) BTW...I am NOT installing W8 on either one of these drives...just W7.
My question is...what's my best plan of action? My goal was to take out 2nd HDD (W8), place in new HDD, install W7. Would the new install see the 2 drives by the W7 boot loader or by Easy BCD?
OR should I uninstall Easy BCD first before doing all this? If I did this wouldn't I have to have W8 reload the Bootloader again? I want to do this as simple as possible & not to mess with my W7 (1st HDD) whatsoever. I need to boot into it.
I hope I haven't confused anyone. Thank you very much in advance for your recommendation.