Replacing An Operating System In Another Hard Drive.

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Hambalele

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hi guys, i need an answer for this
yesterday,my friend gave me his old harddrive,it has a windows 10 and bunch of game in it, i want to replace my old harddrive there and keep the data on C and D softly,i dunno how to remove the os i was using (windows 7) but keep the data well,and i dont know how to read the harddrive in his operating system,so what i want is to appear my harddrive into the opearting system and keep the data.but i dont want to lose my file in local disk C on my own harddrive. i just want to delete the operating system and use his os.
thanks for helping me,i reply you asap.
xoxo :')
 
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Boogieman_WD
Hey there, Hambalele.

It's quite possible for you not to be able to boot to Windows by using your friend's drive due to the fact that it's been configured for a different system already. So you might want to try that first, before you start deleting or reformatting partitions on your drive. Disconnect your HDD and connect only your friend's drive to the mobo. Go to your BIOS/UEFI to make sure that the HDD is selected as the first booting option and try to boot to Windows, to see what happens. If everything works fine, then you're good to go (you'll need to reinstall all the drivers for your hardware components though). However if it doesn't boot up, then you won't be able to do what you're aiming at.

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There are problems with that.

1st windows 10 will deactivate itself as you can't swap it from one PC to another (without taking steps 1st) and I that only applies if you upgrading own PC, not using someone else's windows. You can't just move windows around between PC's like this...
2nd There is a really good chance the hdd won't work real well with your PC as all the hardware in your PC is different to his PC, so you would likely need to fresh install win 10 on your PC to get it to work properly, and wouldn't get to use the games.

So regardless of those steps, one thing you could do was put his hdd into your PC as well as your current hdd - this would mean you keep all your data and wouldn't need to remove win 7. And if win 10 actually boots up in your PC, you get to use the games
 
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Hey there, Hambalele.

It's quite possible for you not to be able to boot to Windows by using your friend's drive due to the fact that it's been configured for a different system already. So you might want to try that first, before you start deleting or reformatting partitions on your drive. Disconnect your HDD and connect only your friend's drive to the mobo. Go to your BIOS/UEFI to make sure that the HDD is selected as the first booting option and try to boot to Windows, to see what happens. If everything works fine, then you're good to go (you'll need to reinstall all the drivers for your hardware components though). However if it doesn't boot up, then you won't be able to do what you're aiming at.

edit: seem like you've already received a similar answer while I was typing. :)

Please let me know how it goes.
Boogieman_WD
 
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hi colif,thanks for answering my problem,theres something that i used to say.first, i only have a win 7 32bit pack,then the windows 10 has 64bit. the thing is,i want to move my data onto the win10,and i only want to take a few things and games from the windows 10,the rest of the data in windows 10 i want to format/remove it. should i put my old personal data in one harddisk,and put it in the new one? but how can it become?. thank you.
 
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Hi There Boogieman_WD! Thank you for answering my question,i've done anything about what u said,even the windows 10 can download and prepare anything about my computer so its ready to use,the thing is i want to format almost all of the data in my new HDD,but leave a few games and a windows 10,and i want to appear my old HDD in there, is it possible to do that?. Thanks For Answering Boogieman_WD.
 
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