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Windows 10 on SSD, windows 8.1 on HDD?
I shorted out my motherboard on my old laptop with a tea spill. I have a new laptop now that has an SSD drive. The HDD is sata, could i use a SATA to usb cable to be able to use the HDD, with its operating system and still use files on the harddrive or would I have to migrate the files off the drive to the new laptop? If it's possible I would like to just have the HDD with the cable connecting to the laptop and be able to still use windows 8.1 on the new laptop.
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- CeiLv 51 year agoFavorite Answer
In theory you could do that but you'd have to configure the bios to boot from USB drive.
One question - Why would you want to continue with Win8.1? It's garbage, Win10 is much better.
- ?Lv 51 year ago
you can get a sata to usb adapter but you will only. be able to move your files, not programs.
- DaveLv 71 year ago
Nope. You cannot boot the OS off a USB drive. You can, however, use the sata to usb cable to turn the old drive into a external hard drive to use the files, like you said. Just delete everything except the files you want to keep on it.
