-
T-Mobile Home Internet: Revisiting 5G connectivity for the home after two years
-
Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks
Adding Old HDD to New PC
- Thread starter saturn144
- Start date
Solution
kelvin08113
Honorable
- Jun 20, 2012
- 343
- 0
- 10,810
If there are only games then just plug in the SATA and power cable and it should be detected. You may need to assign the drive letter.
If it contains OS then you should make sure it does not boot into it by checking the settings in BIOS, you should boot into the OS in your current hard drive. After that you can just delete the OS files in that hard drive as they are going to be useless anyway.
If it contains OS then you should make sure it does not boot into it by checking the settings in BIOS, you should boot into the OS in your current hard drive. After that you can just delete the OS files in that hard drive as they are going to be useless anyway.
SuperSoph_WD
Glorious
- Jul 30, 2014
- 6,758
- 3
- 45,960
Hey there, @saturn144!
I'm afraid that @Kelvin is right. You won't be able to boot from a different Windows 10 installation that is tied to another computer. (The operating system is tied to the motherboard of your computer, whereas the HDD is just a carrier for the system files). However, you shouldn't face any issues if you use it a secondary storage for your Steam gaming. Moving the Steam installation & games is rather easy and they have a pretty detailed tutorial in their official knowledge base on how to do it, so I'd advise you to go check it out.
I'd also highly recommend performing full backups of your files somewhere off-site before tampering with the storage configuration in both PCs!
Good luck! Keep us posted if you have further questions.
SuperSoph_WD
I'm afraid that @Kelvin is right. You won't be able to boot from a different Windows 10 installation that is tied to another computer. (The operating system is tied to the motherboard of your computer, whereas the HDD is just a carrier for the system files). However, you shouldn't face any issues if you use it a secondary storage for your Steam gaming. Moving the Steam installation & games is rather easy and they have a pretty detailed tutorial in their official knowledge base on how to do it, so I'd advise you to go check it out.
I'd also highly recommend performing full backups of your files somewhere off-site before tampering with the storage configuration in both PCs!
Good luck! Keep us posted if you have further questions.
SuperSoph_WD
TRENDING THREADS
-
News Apple debuts M4 processor in new iPad Pros with 38 TOPS on neural engine- Started by Admin
- Replies: 68
-
News Firefox user loses 7,470 opened tabs saved over two years after they can’t restore browsing session
- Started by Admin
- Replies: 57
-
News Intel issues official statement on Core K-series crashes: stick to Intel's official power profiles
- Started by Admin
- Replies: 20
-
Question Sapphire RX 5700 XT Nitro+ is not working in main PCIe slot ?
- Started by digows
- Replies: 24
-
-
Question I replaced my broken Mother Board and now my windows wont start- Started by Crystal_B
- Replies: 18
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram