You have a Lenovo Thinkpad T410 laptop computer. You use a second drive in an ultrabay in order to boot from and run applications that you do not want to run on an internal hard drive. Can you run Micorosft Windows seven operating system in a 32 bit format on an internal drive and as a 64 bit format on an ultra bay drive without any issues?
You are currently running a 32 bit application of Microsoft Windows seven operating system on both drives. You want to know if it is safe to install a 64 bit version of Microsoft Windows seven operating system on a drive in an ultra bay before you try it. Yes it is as long as you take out your main hard drive before installing Microsoft Windows seven operating system 64 bit on your ultrabay hard drive.
Here is how to set it up. You will want to remove a main hard drive from a mainbay. Then you can install a second hard drive in that ultrabay.
You can install an operating system in this case Microsoft Windows 64 bit on that ultrabay drive. You will want to place that mainbay drive back into a main slot. Now when booting up, if you do nothing it will boot to a main bay.
When booting up, you can press an F12 key, it will bring up a boot menu, giving you a choice of which drive to boot into. Then at anytime, you may remove that ultrabay drive to use an optical drive, or ultrabay battery without having to make any adjustments to that system.
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