CHANGING BOOT DRIVE TO EXTERNAL SSD

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September 27, 2019
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Hi,

I'm running a mid 2011 27 inch imac with normal spinning internal hard drive.

I'm planning on running my entire system off an External Thunderbolt connected SSD drive.

I don't want to clone my entire internal drive across to the ssd (there wouldn't be room anyway)

I'm doing a fresh install (High Sierra OS)

Do I have to do a fresh install of Lightroom Classic and Photoshop CC onto the new SSD Boot drive?

Thanks for your help.

Darren

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nikunj.m

Community Manager

Hi Darren,

If you plan to use the internal hard drive as an alternate drive for the computer then you can have the applications installed on the internal drive as well however, it is recommended to have the application installed on the same drive as the OS for better stability of the application. Plus with the SSD being faster than the internal hard drive, may give you better performance.

Also, if you plan to remove the OS completely from the internal drive, you would need to re-install the application anyway.

Regards,

Nikunj

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mr d bm40978394Author

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Thanks Nikunj, I'm planning on leaving the Sierra OS on the internal drive. Do I just download Lightroom again to put it on the new external drive ? Is it possible to leave the lightroom with all my photos on my internal drive and do a fresh install of Lightroom with no photos on the new external SSD drive ?

nikunj.m

Community Manager

Just to understand, you would have a dual boot setup with one OS on the internal drive and another on the external? Or do you plan to have a single drive for the boot process?

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