Installing Windows 7 on a new hard drive, will it delete data on the other drive?

Tokram · Jan 14, 2015

I just got my new HDD and I wondered, will the data on the other HDD, which currently has windows, be deleted if I install it on my new HDD, or will there be a option or something like that, that asks me if I want to keep the data? Please answer if you know the answer.

Thanks a lot guys, I'll be installing it tonight on the new drive and going to disconnect the old one just in case.

Petrossa · Jan 14, 2015

Hi there
No, your data on the old drive will not be erased if you install Windows on the new drive.
You will, however, have to reload all of your programs from scratch again once you have loaded Windows and your drivers.

xen20 · Jan 14, 2015

No it will not be. Just make sure you're installing in the correct partition (as in, not on the old one in the old hard drive.. easier yet, the partition you should be installing on should be clean of data - and if you just connect the HDD and go straight to windows install, you'd need to format it, giving you a clean partition.)

Ironsounds · Jan 14, 2015

Hello... Disconnect the OLD DRIVE before installing on the NEW Drive will make sure Nothing can go wrong.

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