So I have a gaming rig set up and have had it for a few years. I am looking to upgrade to an SSD as a boot drive for the performance boost. Right now I have two hard drives hooked up one 500GB and one 1TB. The 1TB right now has the OS and all my files and the 500GB has Ubuntu installed as a secondary OS. I want to clean install the OS on the new SSD and then use the 1TB as my storage drive for media and larger programs. I don't have an external drive or I would have otherwise moved the files on there and wiped the 1TB. My question is can I transfer the files to the 500GB drive, wipe the 1TB, install the clean OS on the new SSD and then plug in both the 1TB and the 500GB internally and transfer the files from the 500GB to the 1TB. From what I have read the new system may not recognize the old drives if I plug them in internally and I would need to reformat them to get the system to recognize them which would defeat the purpose since that will wipe the drive. I know I could get a HDD enclosure to transfer the files but it doesn't seem like that should be necessary. Can someone let me know a good solution here?
Using an internal hard drive to transfer files to a new hard drive without using an enclosure
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