Upgrading PC Hardware and Keeping Data

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SWATQ8TY

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Hello everyone

i was wondering if i upgraded my Motherboard, CPU & RAM and I have a 10tb HDD (filled with documents, songs, movies......etc.) with no OS nor programs installed on it. Do i need to make a backup and then restore it on the new hardware ? or just plug it back to the new motherboard and voila ! Done ?!

Thanks in advance
 
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Presumably the 10 TB HDD will perform as a secondary drive in your new system so you can just connect it as such on the new motherboard AFTER you're ensured the system boots & functions without any problems with its new boot drive.

In view of the enormous amount of data on that huge drive - data which I suspect is very important to you - it would be desirable if you could backup that data to another drive (preferably a USB external drive) having the disk-space capacity to contain the amount of data on that 10 TB HDD for add'l security. Yes, it would be a considerable expense, but consider such if it's feasible and the data is that important to youl
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Presumably the 10 TB HDD will perform as a secondary drive in your new system so you can just connect it as such on the new motherboard AFTER you're ensured the system boots & functions without any problems with its new boot drive.

In view of the enormous amount of data on that huge drive - data which I suspect is very important to you - it would be desirable if you could backup that data to another drive (preferably a USB external drive) having the disk-space capacity to contain the amount of data on that 10 TB HDD for add'l security. Yes, it would be a considerable expense, but consider such if it's feasible and the data is that important to youl
 
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I wish I could vote this up a hundred times. People that have any documents and irreplaceable media only saved once are just asking for it.....

 
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For the OS, i'm using a separete SSD
 
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Then you do not need to backup. It should be good to swap right over. However, I recommend that you do backup just as a failsafe, but you don't really need to if you don't want. Cheers and good luck wih the PC.
 
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