Want to use old hard drive in new pc
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mudpuppet
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As long as you have another drive to boot off of, and the old drive is connected as well, you should still have access to it as like a D:\ drive or something. I've done this with many other drives in the past. Shouldn't have much of a problem as long as the drive doesn't have issues with it.
weberdarren97
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You could simply hook the old drive up to any port on the motherboard other than SATA0 (that one's for the boot device) and then turn the system back on. When you press Windows+E it should open up My Computer and show both the boot drive and the old "storage drive" which will likely show up as the next available letter after the already installed hard drive(s) and optical drive(s).
Example: If you have a hard drive as drive C: and an optical drive as drive D: then the old storage drive will likely show up as drive E:
PS - if you have application(s) or programs installed on the old drive, they may call on registry values that aren't there on the new drive. So as USAFRet said, you may have problems with applications installed on the old drive. But if it's just data, then there's no problem with doing it this way.
Example: If you have a hard drive as drive C: and an optical drive as drive D: then the old storage drive will likely show up as drive E:
PS - if you have application(s) or programs installed on the old drive, they may call on registry values that aren't there on the new drive. So as USAFRet said, you may have problems with applications installed on the old drive. But if it's just data, then there's no problem with doing it this way.
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