Old HDD in new computer

Nahtangnouv · Apr 20, 2013

I am going to transfer an old hdd to my new computer that I built myself. My hdd is a 2-3 year old 320 gb seagate hardrive. Are there any risks in this?? Also I want to upgrade the windows xp on my old hdd to windows 7 would I need to uninstall windows xp and do a complete install of windows 7? There is nothing in my old hdd that would be of use for me

Emerald · Apr 20, 2013

do a fresh install of Windows7

Nahtangnouv · Apr 20, 2013

also what would happen if the old hdd had viruses on them? would they survive the install of windows 7. Could I reformat the hdd when it's in my computer and erase everything without the hdd infecting my system?

popatim · Apr 20, 2013

definitely do a full format. Use a boot cd/dvd and do it with no other harddrives or flash media/sticks connected. Thew win7 install disk will work as the boot disk and get to the command prompt from the system recovery options.

MidnightDistort · Apr 21, 2013

Nahtangnouv :

A full format of the hard drive should remove any viruses. If you had an antivirus program on that machine & it didn't appear to have anything wrong with the OS it should be fine using Windows 7's full format function. Otherwise if your exceptionally picky I use Gparted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

As the site says avoid using GParted 0.15.0, use GParted Live 0.14.1-6 instead. Since you're just reformatting it should be simple to do if you have the drive in your tower, but if you can't figure it out just ask

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