I broke my old laptop and bought a new one with an SSD. I salvaged the HDD from my old laptop and currently set it up like an external drive, but I would like to install it into my new laptop, seen here.
"Acer Laptop Aspire 5 A517-51G-54GK Intel Core i5 7th Gen 7200U (2.50 GHz) 8 GB Memory 256 GB SSD NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 17.3" Windows 10 Home 64-Bit"
I think I need to speak to Acer to figure out how best to physically install the HDD, but I'm wondering how I would go about, how to say... seamlessly integrating it into my laptop like it's a part of it. In an ideal world, it would be like I'm working on my old computer, just in a new shell.
Do I simply delete the folders where the old OS resides? (They're both Win10.) Do I tell my new laptop to refer to the old HD for the typically listed paths? (Documents, Pictures, etc) Can I still use the software installed on the old HD the same way? (Stuff like Git, Anaconda, and Launchy.)
I hope I'm describing my "problem" properly. Thanks!
"Acer Laptop Aspire 5 A517-51G-54GK Intel Core i5 7th Gen 7200U (2.50 GHz) 8 GB Memory 256 GB SSD NVIDIA GeForce 940MX 17.3" Windows 10 Home 64-Bit"
I think I need to speak to Acer to figure out how best to physically install the HDD, but I'm wondering how I would go about, how to say... seamlessly integrating it into my laptop like it's a part of it. In an ideal world, it would be like I'm working on my old computer, just in a new shell.
Do I simply delete the folders where the old OS resides? (They're both Win10.) Do I tell my new laptop to refer to the old HD for the typically listed paths? (Documents, Pictures, etc) Can I still use the software installed on the old HD the same way? (Stuff like Git, Anaconda, and Launchy.)
I hope I'm describing my "problem" properly. Thanks!