Old drive in new pc

EARLtheSQIRREL · Oct 21, 2017

I just built a new pc with windows 10 and was wondering if I could use my old hdd as a second hdd. The old one also has windows 10 and do I have wipe all data on it before using it or could I keep the data on it?

DSzymborski · Oct 21, 2017

You can, but it's best to wipe it as soon as you can.

Scottray · Oct 21, 2017

You can use it without wiping the drive. Just keep the folders with data and delete the other folders, such as windows and programs.

cherry blossoms · Oct 22, 2017

While you don't need to absolutely wipe the drive, you do need to make sure it no longer contains a boot partition assignment.

EARLtheSQIRREL · Oct 22, 2017

So say I boot my computer up with it installed move all my needed files over to my new one then wipe the old one?

cherry blossoms · Oct 23, 2017

You can Earl. While you can copy whatever you wish to your boot drive, just keep in mind the more files you have on your system drive, the slower it will perform as the file table grows larger and fragmentation occurs.

I am assuming you are going to reuse the old drive as a data storage drive? If you have time, and ALOT of files you want to keep on the original drive, you may just want to delete the OS files from the old drive, and spend some time arranging your data into directories that make sense to you on the drive. Then defragment it using a 3rd part defragmenter that will consolidate space and the MFT. As stated previously, make sure you remove the boot assignment for the partition on the old drive.

Another possible use for data for the old drive is to also setup a small partition at the beginning of the drive, and use that small partition as your web-browser cache area, virtual memory cache area, or other temp file write area. This would also keep clutter down on your operating system drive. Then setup another partition on the rest of the drive as storage

EARLtheSQIRREL · Oct 24, 2017

cherry blossoms :

You can Earl. While you can copy whatever you wish to your boot drive, just keep in mind the more files you have on your system drive, the slower it will perform as the file table grows larger and fragmentation occurs.

I am assuming you are going to reuse the old drive as a data storage drive? If you have time, and ALOT of files you want to keep on the original drive, you may just want to delete the OS files from the old drive, and spend some time arranging your data into directories that make sense to you on the drive. Then defragment it using a 3rd part defragmenter that will consolidate space and the MFT. As stated previously, make sure you remove the boot assignment for the partition on the old drive.

Another possible use for data for the old drive is to also setup a small partition at the beginning of the drive, and use that small partition as your web-browser cache area, virtual memory cache area, or other temp file write area. This would also keep clutter down on your operating system drive. Then setup another partition on the rest of the drive as storage

Thanks for the lot of information you have given me. It might take me some time but I’m sure to get into that as it’s more than I thought.

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