Using a Dell hard drive in a new pc?
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- Mar 16, 2013
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A hard drive is a hard drive is a hard drive.
What you are really asking, I think is "will the existing OS and application install work on the new PC?".
Almost certainly not.
You will almost certainly need to do a full reinstall of the OS.
And the license key from your Dell may not work with new hardware.
What OS is it?
What you are really asking, I think is "will the existing OS and application install work on the new PC?".
Almost certainly not.
You will almost certainly need to do a full reinstall of the OS.
And the license key from your Dell may not work with new hardware.
What OS is it?
No im gonna install Windows 8 on the new Hard Drive, i just want the Dell hard drive for the save games and stuff, but just realized it would be a stupid idea since the dell is 120gb and is slow as balls. So yeah, thanks for the response man, but ill just use steam cloud.
ronintexas
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I would not install the old drive, install Windows on the new drive, then install the old drive and copy the files from the old drive to the new one. Because of the drive's age, I would suggest the best utilization of the drive is either a temporary external drive or a paper weight.....LOL.
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