Moving a hard drive from one computer to another

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My old laptop broke down but hard disc is fine. I bought an new laptop but problem is that in my old laptop hard disc I had many stuffs. Now does it work if i put my old hard disc in my new laptop? I don't care if i have to reinstall windows I just care for my projects stored there.
 
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1. No, it's not going to work. You're going to have to install your programs on your new laptop's boot drive.

2. Now you can copy personal data files, audio-visual files, and all such other non-program data from the old laptop's drive to the new laptop drive as long as the new laptop drive has sufficient disk-space capacity to contain those files. In order to do so you will have to connect the old laptop drive to the new laptop as a USB external drive and copy those files through that means. Capiche?
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I'm not sure about laptops, but In a desktop you can connect a new Hard Drive to the computer and it will work, you don't have to reinstall windows or anything like that. However, I do not know about a laptop.

Hope this helped!
 
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1. No, it's not going to work. You're going to have to install your programs on your new laptop's boot drive.

2. Now you can copy personal data files, audio-visual files, and all such other non-program data from the old laptop's drive to the new laptop drive as long as the new laptop drive has sufficient disk-space capacity to contain those files. In order to do so you will have to connect the old laptop drive to the new laptop as a USB external drive and copy those files through that means. Capiche?
 
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