Installing an older hard drive as a second storage to new PC?

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Porky Trooper

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Hi guys :)

Just wondering on how to (step by step preferably, I tend to get these things wrong...) install an older hard drive to a new PC.

The old PC containing old HDD came from a Currys and it was a Dell PC. The OS on the hard drive is still installed, and it's a Windows 7 Home Prem. It's a 2TB Hitachi. 2 years worth of games, pics and files on there.

The old PC was sold, however I kept the HDD and looking to install it onto my new PC.

Not sure if current specs are important but just in case -

Gigabyte Z87-HD3 Motherboard
Running Windows 8.1 Pro.

Thanks :)
 
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If you're not concerned about keeping anything on it....Disk Management, and delete each partition.
Format, and give it a drive letter.

If you do want stuff off of it....
Connect it, copy whatever files from it to elsewhere. Then see above.
Programs and games from it will not work in a new system.
 
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I assume it's a SATA drive... If so, get a SATA cable, plug the drive to one end, plug the other end to the motherboard (just like the other hard drive you have). Plug power to the second drive and turn on the PC. It's really just that easy.

Now the real question, do you care about the data on the old HD? if not format the drive and off you go... If you do, back up whatever data you want then format format the drive.
 
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Yeah thats the problem. I have about 1.5TB of data, and nowhere to back up that much data :(
 
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Yeah it's a SATA. Unfortunately theeres like 1.5TB of data on there, and I don't have an external drive to back up all that data to.
 
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You should look into getting a backup drive... For the time being, borrowing an external HD from a friend may be the quickest option. Also, while the drive has 1.5TB of stuff on it, a lot of it is actually useless stuff you don't need to save. Stuff under "program files" or "windows" generally (and I mean generally) aren't needed. Those folders tend to hold no user created items. Parse through the drive and figure out what you truly want to save. Then look to borrowing/buying an external HD.
 
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