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I want to take my C: hard drive out of my old PC and install it in my new PC as a second hard drive. How do I wipe the old drive? How do I get the new PC to recognize the old drive? Both are Dell. Old is vista and new it 7pro
 
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Is there any information on the old drive you want or need to save? Assuming the old drive is SATA - the connector should look like this:

LGGSAH62N_sata2.jpg


- it should plug right into the new system (power off and uplug the new system when interesting the old drive. You won't have to do anything to get Windows 7 to see it then. If there's data you want to save, copy it onto the new drive. Then format using Explorer. Go to Computer, and right-click on the old drive, and click Format. Make sure the box that says "quick format" is checked or else the long format will take a very long time.
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Is there any information on the old drive you want or need to save? Assuming the old drive is SATA - the connector should look like this:

LGGSAH62N_sata2.jpg


- it should plug right into the new system (power off and uplug the new system when interesting the old drive. You won't have to do anything to get Windows 7 to see it then. If there's data you want to save, copy it onto the new drive. Then format using Explorer. Go to Computer, and right-click on the old drive, and click Format. Make sure the box that says "quick format" is checked or else the long format will take a very long time.
 
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