Moving storage hard drive from old pc to new pc
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Any installed programs (non-steam games/applications) would not work and would need to be reinstalled (remove them from the drive BEFORE moving it), but any data files (documents, music, movies, downloads) should still be accessible. There's no reason to wipe the drive completely if it's just a storage drive.
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if the old drive only has files on it that have nothing to do with your operating system you shouldn't have to delete anything to get it to work right. but you can connect it as a secondary drive and copy whatever files from it you need to your new computers HDD and format it after that if you wish
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Best way to wipe the drive is during a format. You can do this from Disk Management or during Windows installation if you haven't installed it yet.
Just make sure you're working with the correct drive before clicking OK to Format.
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