Does my PC contain SATA components?

Kiusthugs · Dec 27, 2013

I want to move my hard drive and optical drive to a new pc. Ive read that to transfer it... The items must be in SATA form? Tell me if my items can be transferred. I have a dell optiplex 740 desktop version.

http://www.dell.com/downloads/jp/products/optix/optiplex_740_techspecs_070326.pdf

nostall · Dec 27, 2013

According to the spec sheet you posted, both your hard drive and your optical (CD or DVD) drive are SATA. Your optical drive should be instantly recognized, but the new PC will probably have a new and different mobo, CPU, etc., so your old hard drive will have to be formatted (erased) and a new operating system installed in order to use it for the primary or "C" drive. If you just want it for storeage you might be able to just plug it in and see if the operating system of the new pc will recognize it: If it does it will assign it a drive letter and you can use it for storage or retrieve personal data from it.

thx1138v2 · Dec 27, 2013

SATA stands for Serial ATA. The specs at the link you provided says the system only supports SATA so, yes, you will have SATA drives. But you can't just plug them in and have the new machine boot from the SATA hard drive because the new system will require different drivers. So you will have to re-install the operating system if you want to boot from the old hard drive.

On the other hand, if you will be booting up from a new hard drive in the new system you should to go into Disk Manager after booting from the new hard drive and set the older drive to non-bootable.

Tradesman1 · Dec 27, 2013

Optical should be fine, and if Win7 is your OS chances are good you can boot to it as it, Win7 is good at recognizing new hardware and adjusting to it, if it does will prob have to re-authenticate

Kisianik · Dec 28, 2013

Kiusthugs :

Are you sure that you have Desktop (DT)

Look at pics below

IF it is Desktop, you have only one place for optical drive, and in order to place second hard drive, you have to remove floppy and do so work in floppy are to mount second HDD there.

So which form factor you have?

nostall · Dec 28, 2013

Kiusthugs :

Kiusthugs, are you moving those parts into the Dell Optiplex or out of that pc and into a new rig?

Kiusthugs · Jan 8, 2014

nostall :

Sorry guys havent been on this website for a long time... Hopefully you guys reply quick. But yes i plan to put it into a new rig...

Kiusthugs · Jan 8, 2014

Kisianik :

Kiusthugs :

Are you sure that you have Desktop (DT)

Look at pics below

IF it is Desktop, you have only one place for optical drive, and in order to place second hard drive, you have to remove floppy and do so work in floppy are to mount second HDD there.

So which form factor you have?

Im literally looking at my computer and it looks like the desktop you have showed in the picture.

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