quicky008
Technomancer
I have 2 hdds on my system-80 gb and 1 tb.Before adding the 1 tb drive,i used my 80gb hdd as my primary hdd and had win 7 installed on it.After adding the 1 tb drive,i installed win 8 on 1 of the partitions of this new drive,but the MBR for win 8 was created on my older 80gb hdd as it was still configured as the primary hdd in the bios.
However the 80gb hdd has outlived its usefulness and so i am planning to replace it with a new 2 tb drive,which is intended to be used as the primary hdd from then onwards.I also wish to install win 7 on this 2 tb hdd.However what bothers me is that as the mbr for win 8 originally existed on my older 80 gb drive,will be able to boot into windows 8 after replacing it with the 2tb drive and installing win 7 on it?Or will i have to reinstall win 8 as well from scratch?As i have said earlier,win 8 is currently installed on my existing 1 tb drive and i'd like to keep it even after replacing my primary hdd as it contains many of the games and applications that i use frequently-reinstalling everyone of them will be an extremely time consuming and difficult task and so i wish to avoid that at all costs.
So can anyone tell me how can I continue to use Win 8 even after changing my primary hdd(containing the boot-loader for win 8)?Thanks.
However the 80gb hdd has outlived its usefulness and so i am planning to replace it with a new 2 tb drive,which is intended to be used as the primary hdd from then onwards.I also wish to install win 7 on this 2 tb hdd.However what bothers me is that as the mbr for win 8 originally existed on my older 80 gb drive,will be able to boot into windows 8 after replacing it with the 2tb drive and installing win 7 on it?Or will i have to reinstall win 8 as well from scratch?As i have said earlier,win 8 is currently installed on my existing 1 tb drive and i'd like to keep it even after replacing my primary hdd as it contains many of the games and applications that i use frequently-reinstalling everyone of them will be an extremely time consuming and difficult task and so i wish to avoid that at all costs.
So can anyone tell me how can I continue to use Win 8 even after changing my primary hdd(containing the boot-loader for win 8)?Thanks.