Dual booting windows with two SSDs
Dual booting windows with two SSDs
Hi, it seems you've damaged some windows. I had Windows 7 on one SSD and Windows 10 on another, but it was frustrating that the files, downloads, and folders were in different locations. Eventually, I moved both user folders to a single place, only to realize it wasn't ideal. After restarting and setting up symlinks, I can't access either system. I have a screenshot of my Windows 7 installation and just installed Windows 10, so I'm not too concerned about data loss. I'm curious about the best approach for installing two operating systems so that user files remain accessible to both. Moving everything to one location seems to have disrupted the programs, especially if they were installed identically on both. I understand I can relocate documents and media anywhere, but most applications default their save paths to a specific path like "../Users/[PC_name]/". I want that same path for consistency. I have two Samsung EVO 250Gb SSDs. Would you recommend: A. Partitioning one and installing both OS's there, then moving the files to the second SSD? B. Running Windows 7 and Windows 10 separately? C. Setting up RAID 0 on a single drive and splitting it into two partitions for each OS? D. Using RAID 0 with three partitions—100Gb each for the OSes and a third for files? E. Something else? Thanks, AusTempest Edited October 6, 2014 by Austempest