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I have a USB HDD that I'm hoping to install Windows on for a few games and other pieces of software. I know my load times will be miserable, but how poorly will things run once on ram? Lastly, Windows does like to screw with other operating systems on the same drive, will it play nice with my main drive as long as it's on the HDD?

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[โ€“] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Easiest solution: remove the SSD before you install windows.

Windows loves installing it's bootloader on other drives, but if your other drive isn't formatted in a way windows understands it shouldn't do that. But either way it shouldn't cause too many issues. Also if it's on a USB drive then you're using the windows to go option which especially shouldn't fuck with your SSD in any way.

This is a laptop so I can't remove the SSD that easily and Windows to go was discontinued 5 years ago. I think there's an open source clone though.