Hello everyone.
I am planning to buy a (used) prebuilt pc. My current one is not strong enough for gaming, and I have a 775 socket motherboard so I'm just better off buying a new PC instead of upgrading my existing one.
The PC comes with a 250 GB hard drive, and I can also pay extra for a 120 GB SSD. Since my computer already has a hard drive, and I have lots of personal files on it, I would like to keep it alongside the new hard drive.
Not being very good at tech, the entire process is pretty confusing for me. My current hard drive has 300 GB and is seperated to 3 partitions, C: , D: and E: My personal files are kept on D: and E: while C: is used just for programs and stuff like that.
What confuses me is how will the entire process work. Will I have to format the entire drive, or just the C: partition when putting it into the new PC? Can I format my C: partition, then change it to a secondary partition, and install windows on the other hard drive? Can I simply keep the entire drive with all partitions, and make the other hard drive the fourth partition?
Big thank you for anyone kind enough to answer. Cheers!
I am planning to buy a (used) prebuilt pc. My current one is not strong enough for gaming, and I have a 775 socket motherboard so I'm just better off buying a new PC instead of upgrading my existing one.
The PC comes with a 250 GB hard drive, and I can also pay extra for a 120 GB SSD. Since my computer already has a hard drive, and I have lots of personal files on it, I would like to keep it alongside the new hard drive.
Not being very good at tech, the entire process is pretty confusing for me. My current hard drive has 300 GB and is seperated to 3 partitions, C: , D: and E: My personal files are kept on D: and E: while C: is used just for programs and stuff like that.
What confuses me is how will the entire process work. Will I have to format the entire drive, or just the C: partition when putting it into the new PC? Can I format my C: partition, then change it to a secondary partition, and install windows on the other hard drive? Can I simply keep the entire drive with all partitions, and make the other hard drive the fourth partition?
Big thank you for anyone kind enough to answer. Cheers!