But if you removed you current drive, set it on the shelf you could install it without fear of corrupting the 1TB drive.
You make me wonder if there is no backup copies of what you can't lose.
Bob
I have win 8 pro installed(downloaded from MS) onto a 1 terabyte HD and i want to know if i can install the Oct 8.1 onto a seperate ssd when it is released(As a stand alone upgrade/update)or will i be FORCED to cull my terabyte(nearly full) and clone to my new 250gb ssd and then update/upgrade to 8.1

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