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A520M-HVS

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Forum Description: Question about ASRock AMD motherboards
URL: https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=112936
Printed Date: 01 Jul 2025 at 9:33am
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Topic: A520M-HVS

Posted By: denis-lv
Subject: A520M-HVS
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2025 at 10:30pm

Is it possible to have an SSD and a M.2 SATA in the pc at the same time and would downloading windows 7 on the ssd and keeping windows 10 on this current M.2 SATA be possible?

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Posted By: eccential
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2025 at 12:09am

On that motherboard, the 4 SATA ports are from the chipset and aren't shared with any CPU direct links.

CPU itself can support up to 2 SATA devices.

In other words, you can have an m.2 SATA drive + 4 more SATA drives connected without any issues.

As for dual-booting Win7 and Win10, Windows itself doesn't supply boot manager, so you'd have to use F11 (or was it F12) to choose which one to boot each time.

I'd think it should work, but I can't guarantee anything because I never tried it myself.