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I'm going to be building my first desktop soon, and I am on a hilariously tight budget. If I hadn't had my old laptop, I wouldn't even be able to get a decent HDD.
So, my laptop has a 5.4K/7.2K (Not really sure as of the moment) 500GB HDD, partitioned and formatted to Windows 10. I will be building a desktop, and also using Windows 10. I suppose I have a few questions:
As far as I understand, the license, which is a non-transferable OEM license, is bound to the motherboard and will not simply transfer to the new desktop, thus I have to purchase another OEM license, which is fine- however, will it try to install a second partition on the drive, or will it simply allow me to use the code with the OEM I'm going to buy and skip installing a new partition? Also, how many GBs does the partition take?
I'm already pretty sure of this question, but asking again never hurt- a laptop drive with SATA power connectors and data transfer cable fittings for SATA will work fine in a desktop?
And, finally, will the 2.5 inch drive (which this one is) fit in the 2.5 inch SSD slot practically?
Thanks for the responses!
So, my laptop has a 5.4K/7.2K (Not really sure as of the moment) 500GB HDD, partitioned and formatted to Windows 10. I will be building a desktop, and also using Windows 10. I suppose I have a few questions:
As far as I understand, the license, which is a non-transferable OEM license, is bound to the motherboard and will not simply transfer to the new desktop, thus I have to purchase another OEM license, which is fine- however, will it try to install a second partition on the drive, or will it simply allow me to use the code with the OEM I'm going to buy and skip installing a new partition? Also, how many GBs does the partition take?
I'm already pretty sure of this question, but asking again never hurt- a laptop drive with SATA power connectors and data transfer cable fittings for SATA will work fine in a desktop?
And, finally, will the 2.5 inch drive (which this one is) fit in the 2.5 inch SSD slot practically?
Thanks for the responses!
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