Old HDD New PC

Tek-Buzz · Feb 25, 2016

Hi,
As the title indicates i'm gonna be using my HDD which is in my OLD PC to my New Gaming Rig, i already have a new HDD and a new SSD installed in the gaming PC and OS is also installed and running, however i took a quick look at the old PC and said, this HDD should be up and running in new gaming PC, but i don't know if i have to just plug and play or have to wipe out anything from the old HDD in order to make it work in new PC.

drtweak · Feb 25, 2016

if it a SATA drive just plug it in. Then once plugged in you can format it if there is nothing on there you need and want to start fresh.

If it is an IDE drive (Has the wide ribbon cable) don't even bother.

D_Know_WD · Feb 25, 2016

Hi there Tek-Buzz,

Given the fact that the drive is an old one, it may be a good idea to test it with some of these: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility
Apart from that, as drtweak said, just attach it and reformat it. You should be able to access the drive right away, so you can back up all the data that you need before the reformat.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

Tek-Buzz · Feb 25, 2016

Thanks guys,
As the drive is OLD one, i'm worried there could be any Virus or alot, might come in the new PC..

drtweak · Feb 25, 2016

Most virus must me RAN or Clicked on. Very few can infect a PC just by being connected to it. the only one i eve came across was the old Autorun virus but their has to be an Autorun.ini file on the root of the hard drive for that.

If you plug it in, and then format it right away their is nothing to worry about. If you wanted to you could plug it in, Then for Windows 7 and Under mash on the F8 key on startup and start windows in safe mode with Command Prompt. Then just type in the following with an enter after every line

diskpart
list disk
select disk X (where X is the disk number of your hard drive. You will know by the Total hard drive size. if it is old it will be small. MAKE SURE IT IS THE CORRECT DISK)
clean

then done. Restart the PC. This way Explorer doesn't even open and windows doesn't even access the hard drive.

Also need to make sure what kind of hard drive it is. What conector of these is it.

SATA http://images.wisegeek.com/sata-cable-connected-to-a-drive.jpg
IDE http://mlm-s1-p.mlstatic.com/13329-MLM2982224447_082012-O.jpg
SCSI 68 or 80 Pin (80 pin on top 68 Pin on Boom) http://i.stack.imgur.com/ojZhg.jpg

Tek-Buzz · Mar 8, 2016

Sorry for late reply, It's a SATA drive

drtweak · Mar 8, 2016

Yea just plug it in and format it. If you are really that worried about virus you can download a live linux CD and boot off of that and then format the drive or at least erase all the partitions and then make a new ones in windows.

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