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Moving hard drives to new system

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April 19, 2013 9:51:20 AM

Hello all. I have a home built system and I'm going to build a new one. The existing system has internal and external seconday hard drives with pix and video on them. These drives were formatted using windows XP (which is the OS on the old system).

I'm going to build my new system using windows 7 or 8. Will I be able to connect these drives to the new PC and will they be recognized? I'm not going to connect the old primary drive (the one with windows installed on it). I would like to connect these secondary drives in order to access the pix and vids. Will there be security/compatibility issues?

Thanks!

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April 19, 2013 9:59:02 AM

NOPE, Should be fine.

Leave the Storage drives disconnected until AFTER windows 7, 8 is installed on new HDD.
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April 19, 2013 10:03:17 AM

Thanks! Could have sworn I tried it in the past and had some kind of "administrative security" fiasco but that could have been trying to remove the HDD with windows and booting up on a new PC
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April 19, 2013 10:13:07 AM

fishacura said:
Thanks! Could have sworn I tried it in the past and had some kind of "administrative security" fiasco but that could have been trying to remove the HDD with windows and booting up on a new PC


Yes, that was the case for your previous operation.

Your current secondary drives will be fine in the new system.
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