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terribleteee   11-11-2009 at 05:39:11 PM

I recently had a motherboard fail on an old P4 system. I've got a new AMD board and system up and running windows 7. The boot hard drive from the old system had a lot of data on it still that I hadn't transfered to my storage drives. The storage drives I just swaped into the new system after I had loaded windows. My question is If I plugged in the old drive with an operating system installed into my new system would the new system be able to read it as it read my storage drives or would it possibly try to boot off of this drive. If anyone has any advice on how I could recover my files and formate this drive I'd be appreciate it.

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rkulp   11-12-2009 at 06:11:19 AM

You should be able to just plug it in and get whatever data you want off. The bios should already be set to boot off your primary hard drive. If for some reason it tries to boot off the old hard drive, hit f10 or whatever key it is to select the boot menu during start up. You can then select hard drive and choose which one to boot off of. Hope this helps

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terribleteee   11-12-2009 at 12:48:27 PM

Ya thats what I thought would happen but I've always been nervous about entering the bios. I think I need to spend some more time learning about it though especially considering I just built my self a very overclockable system thanx

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Bronze Storage badge r_manic   11-19-2009 at 04:10:03 AM

Why would you be nervous about entering the BIOS? So long as you don't save changes you'll be fine, and be able to see the information you're looking for. You can also keep track of the changes you make so that you can recover if needed.

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