Sam wrote
Rod Speed wrote

I wasn't suggesting the last, boot into Win on different drive.

I appreciate the clarification.

One FINAL question: Since I need to use another drive to boot into
Windows.
Can I use an SSD drive (for improved performance)

Yes you can.

or should I stick with a 1 GB regular drive?

No reason to, but that will work fine too.

The mobo has SATA 6 connectors and currently my Windows drives uses it.
I should replace it before it fails on me as it is old too.

Motherboards don't fail very often at all, I have only ever
had the one fail. Certainly a new one would be easier with
UEFI support.