Can I install windows 7 on a 2nd ssd, if I cannot change the boot order of my laptop (bios is locked)?
Scenario: I have a laptop which runs windows 7 and I want to put a new ssd in the second slot, install windows on the second ssd and then remove it to use in another laptop. The boot order cannot be changed so is it possible to install windows on to the second drive from within windows? (I hope this makes sense.)
First off, you're posting in a thread that's from 2011, with the most recent post from 2015 _ it's a little old...
With that said, what you're trying to do can't be done, and doesn't make sense.
Even if you could do that, W7 would load the drivers for that laptop, eg, video card, sound card WiFi etc...
If both laptops were exactly the same... but doing it that way just isn't done.
If you took the SSD out and stuck it in another laptop running different hardware, it wouldn't boot, you would immediately run into problems with the BIOS being different on the other laptop.
What needs to be done is to simply put your new SSD in the other laptop and install W7 as you would normally do.
You will need a new W7 key of course, no matter what circumstances.
If you install W7 on both machines using the same key, it may work for a little while, but eventually Microsoft will find out and you will get these annoying messages that you're not running a genuine Microsoft product.
You won't get locked out totally, but the massages will continue until you enter a new and valid key.
And why bother with W7, support will end in 2020 ?