Can i transfer my iTunes music from old HD to new HD?
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shortstuff_mt
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Yes, you can plug the old hard drive into your new PC as long as it has the right connectors for it. Do you know if the old drive is IDE or SATA? Most new PCs don't have IDE connectors anymore. If that's the case, it's still possible, but will require something like an adapter or external HD enclosure.
shortstuff_mt
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No, you can plug the old HDD into your new PC. As long as the motherboard BIOS is still set to boot from your new HDD you will be fine. You can copy all your files to your new HDD as long as the HDD still works. Is the old computer functional? If so, another option may be to transfer files over a network.
shortstuff_mt
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That sounds about right. With faster drives like an SSD the drives can be limited by the SATA speed, but spinning disks are usually limited by the disk technology itself. It's limited by how fast the drive can physically read the data from one drive and write it to another drive. A lot of spinning drives I've seen max out somewhere around 120MB/s. Data transfers between drives has very little to do with CPU speed. If you watch the CPU usage while transferring files you will see that the usage is pretty low. The HDD cache size can help a little depending on the size of the files you're transferring.
I'm glad you got your music transferred over. If your old PC isn't functional and you've copied all your important music/documents/pictures/etc... you could format the drive and leave it in your new PC as a backup drive.
I'm glad you got your music transferred over. If your old PC isn't functional and you've copied all your important music/documents/pictures/etc... you could format the drive and leave it in your new PC as a backup drive.
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Everything on the old HDD is going to be formated here in a few hours. Im putting the old hdd back in my old pc and giving it to my dad as he doesnt have a computer. Would hate to see that pc go unused. Though its old and crappy.
Has a E5700 (boy i had to deal with that cpu for 3 years, SO BAD IMO) and i put in a hd6670
shortstuff_mt
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Sounds like a good way to get some more use out of your old machine and do something nice for your old man! I gave my old PC to my Mom when she started her own business. It's still plugging away and works great for her needs.
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shortstuff_mt :
Sounds like a good way to get some more use out of your old machine and do something nice for your old man! I gave my old PC to my Mom when she started her own business. It's still plugging away and works great for her needs.
Yeah! As long as the old machines arnt being used for heavy stuff itll work. But for anytype of games or file burning their just to slow lol
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