Temporarily Transferring a HDD to Another PC

IronPuddinG · Sep 12, 2014

Hey all,
So here's my situation. I'm going to be house sitting for my grandparents on one of their trips this week. They have a computer over there, and I was wondering if it were possible for me to take the hard drive out of my PC and put it in there. I would be using it as a secondary drive but it does have my OS (W7) on it. Can I do this without having to format the drive? Both machines are running Windows 7 if that matters. I'm mainly interested in using the drive for all my Steam games.

I feel like it should be fine, but I wanted to get a second (first?) opinion.

Thanks,
IronPuddinG

USAFRet · Sep 12, 2014

As a secondary drive, probably.
But you can't use the OS and applications on it. So not much point outside of a music/video library

smog0 · Sep 12, 2014

you would need to reinstall steam and use your hd as a 'library' for the new installation but you should be good

Entomber · Sep 12, 2014

why can't you just take your PC there? That would work as well.

USAFRet · Sep 12, 2014

If you were my grandchild (and I have more than one), and you brought your hard drive, connected it to my PC, and borked up my PC enough to use it....you and I would have issues.

But then you wouldn't have permissions enough to install whatever you need to run your games, off your HDD, on my PC.

Just bring your own PC. Feel lucky I allow you to access the overall LAN.

smog0 · Sep 12, 2014

USAFRet :

probably most grandpas are not as tech savy as you

IronPuddinG · Sep 12, 2014

USAFRet :

I suppose, but there's no reason to be rude. I built the computer that I would be transferring from, so I'm pretty confident in my abilities to not bork up their computer. They've also given access of it to me as well, so they probably trust that my uses of it won't be malicious (intentional or not).
At any rate, thanks for your help.

USAFRet · Sep 12, 2014

Not trying to be rude, just be careful of what you do.
If they've given permission.then you just have to look at what that PC allows and can do, and what your game installs can do.

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