“Primary HD I can install Windows 7 or higher OS and make this a bootable drive, right?”

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• Yes, but bear in mind that these are meant for storage really. They are 5400 RPM which means they are slower and designed for longer term use. Using as a primary bootable drive is fine but will be slower than a 7200 RPM drive.

  Answered by JDTX 9 years ago

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• Yes, you can install Windows 7 from a CD/DVD without any issue. The only issue I have had was in trying to restore from a Windows backup on a drive that was formatted as a dynamic disk. The transfer software will not do that; it only will restore from a basic disk.

  Answered by James 10 years ago

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• to serve as the Primary HD, it may need a certain jumper pin connector. My usage is different.

  Answered by VineBuzz 6 years ago

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• Absolutely capable of being your boot drive

  Answered by BobH 6 years ago

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• It seems possible but I cannot guarantee compatibility.

  Answered by Herc 6 years ago

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• Yes, depending on what you plug it in to. I suspect you could install DOS 6.0 or Windows 95 also, but you'd have to make several partitions to use the whole drive, since they can't recognize 4 TB of storage. Seriously, I forget the partition size limitations on portions in the 32 bit versus 64 versions of Windows on Windows 7 and newer, because I retired switched to Macs for home use.

  Answered by OldMan 7 years ago

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• Yes. Spring for a SSD if you can afford it, or a 7200 rpm drive if you can't.

  Answered by whatasucker 7 years ago

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• Yes

  Answered by logical1 9 years ago

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• You sure can! You can even install Linux on the drive. As soon as you install an OS on the drive, that drive will become bootable and boot... into the OS.

  Answered by DragonTech 9 years ago

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• Yes, the "Everyday" drives (like this one) from Western Digital are the most appropriate for that task.

  Answered by Eric 10 years ago

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