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Switching 4TB Drives To Other PC Question

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June 5, 2014 3:52:54 PM

Hello,

I'm going to buy a new PC later this month but I'm going to put my old drives in it. They are 4x WD 4TB Green drives formatted as GPT.

When I'm going to put them in the other PC, is it going to recognize them instantly because they're already GPT, or not? If not, do I have to reformat the drives and loose all my data on it?

I'm asking because I had a 3TB drive and tried to transfer the files to a new 4TB drive via a HDD docking station and when I plugged that 3TB drive (that had previously been in my pc) in the HDD docking station, my PC didn't recognize it (it didn't assign a drive letter to it) and I couldn't manually change the drive letter for it. I think it was because it didn't seem to have any partition, so I made a partition, but lost my data. When I plugged it in it did not ask me again to format to MBR or GPT though, and it showed up as 2.7TB of unused space, so I think Windows already knew it was GPT but then why does it show up as no partition?

Thanks in advance.

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a b G Storage
June 5, 2014 4:54:59 PM

When switching motherboards a fresh install will most likely be needed. If your DATA is on a non boot drive it should be a easy unplug and replug. I install the OS with just the one drive hooked up.
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June 6, 2014 1:50:19 AM

anonymous1 said:
When switching motherboards a fresh install will most likely be needed. If your DATA is on a non boot drive it should be a easy unplug and replug. I install the OS with just the one drive hooked up.


They're just data drives, my OS drive is an SSD, and I always re-install my OS when getting a new PC. But I never had to reformat my data drives before though.. until I unplugged the 3TB drive and then plugged it in the HDD docking station.

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a b G Storage
June 6, 2014 9:32:28 AM

Data drive should be fine. (as long as they are not in a RAID)
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