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Going to transplant my build out of my old Thermaltake M9 case to my brand new Zalman Z9 case today. The power button on the M9 is giving out and I am tired of it turning on and off by itself. Was wondering if any of you might have some tips or suggestions for during or after the process. The new Z9 case comes with 5 fans and only 2 have LEDS, so I am thinking of swapping the ones out of my old case that are lighted into the new case. Any other suggestions?

Basically, i was on budget and i really needed to update my rig. But after months of reading and "Picking parts" i came to realize that i am pretty much doing a build from scratch. The only thing that was worth taking from the old PC was the HDD (2TB, 7200k RPM). So here is the deal. I have a hard drive in which my windows, drivers, softwares etc. are installed. Would it be possible to install this hard drive onto my new PC ? Would the fact that my hard drive has all the old drivers and things installed affect my new computer ? Or is there any easier method to install my hard drive on to another PC WITHOUT LOOSING WINDOWS?

This is a massively confusing issue, with lots of useless guides online on what i'm supposed to be doing. It also involves using a lot of stock windows tools which are rubbish and outdated. But required, as you have to transplant the OS so seamlessly it doesn't notice. I have now tried this operation twice by myself, failing both times. Now i need help. This post may be very long. More of a journal than a formal post. Please bear with me. Advice is appreciated. I have a 128gb SSD boot drive and a number of 2tb hdds for mass storage (i do a lot of things with media, i have about 4tb worth of files). 128gb is puny for a C drive, and despite me deliberately never installing any application, or document to the drive (chrome, Microsoft office, that's it), it still repeatedly fills up with cache and temp files, especially from adobe applications (again, the whole "large files with media" thing, going straight to the c drive with no scratch disk to speak of) So I've bought a new 480gb ssd. I'd like to make it my boot drive, put applications on it, etc. Convert the SSD into a scratch disk. Keep mass storage. In fact, remove the old C drive entirely, and copy across the contents so perfectly that the computer can simply reboot off the new drive (same designation etc) and never skip a beat. That's the plan, anyway. Attempt one: Macrium Reflect to create a disk clone on the new drive. There is a lot of conflict on the internet over what exactly disk cloning and disk imaging do. I have found sources that both claim one works to copy a c drive, the other doesn't (doesn't grap crucial boot info). For both drives. useful. The clone seemed to work seamlessly enough, but cloned the same partitions leaving a 300gb hole on the new drive. Problem 1: windows does not allow you to extend partitions on a boot drive. this makes it unbootable.... Furthermore, when i replaced the drive in the computer, the thing failed altogether. I tried to rebuild windows following its own instructions, but it got caught in a restart loop at 64%, 1% Configuring Startup Settings (eg. http://www.tenforums.com/installation-setup/12857-endless-boot-loop-after-reset.html) This was unnerving, as it said it would format all my hard drives and rework them. It didn't. I pulled out the new drive, put in the old one, everything booted fine as usual. Went on normal way. Attempt two: I aborted this because the last backup i had was from December. So i decided to do a proper backup and re-image, and use Windows' own recovery tools to apply that image to the computer. Backup had a lot of hiccups. A number of backups failed because of insufficient drive space, and one or two files corrupting the process. List of errors: 0x807800C5, 0x80070002, Windows update troubleshooter failed, 0x807800F, Windows 10 Service registration is Missing or Corrupt. But finally, it created a passable image. And i got a full backup of my C drive. Made a recovery disk. Shut down the computer. Unplugged everything. Put in the blank drive and recovery disk. had another crack at it. Immediately had to plug drives back in again. For the system-wide image to work (DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO IMAGE ONLY A SINGLE DRIVE???) i needed the other hard drives to be installed, which would then be formatted, wiped and replaced by the image. I tried this twice. both times it failed (You need to repair your PC, 0x8078012D). I try to use command prompt to run checkdisk on the two drives, /r and /f to find bad sectors and repair them. The new C drive (with the botched images on it) took four hours through this process, turned over zero bad sectors, gave the all clear. The O drive (with the image) didn't get past 0%. got stuck for half an hour on sector 28. I gave up. tried to restart again. Failed again (you need to repair your PC, 0xc000000f). I was very scared that my hard drives would be wiped. But once again, they're untouched. Either the image actually worked perfectly, or it isn't actually doing anything at all! I'm not sure which is scarier!! Should i try running checkdisk before i create the image? should i be using third party software (do not want to pay for anything!)?? Tell me something better to do! Thank you in advance.

Two years ago, I bought a SSD for my laptop. I am not happy with my laptop anymore, and want to build a new PC. I figured I could still use the SSD, but realised it was too small. Do I need a new SSD or is there some kind of adapter?

I have recently re done the cable management in my parents old PC which is a Acer pre-built that I transplanted into a Fractal Design Core 1000. In doing so, I had to disconnect the front panel connectors. When I went to reconnect them, I noticed that the header is colour coded for the wires. Blue = Reset switch Black = Power switch (Yellow wire) Red = HDD LED Green = Power LED So I was wondering, is there an actual standard for front panel connectors?

So mum has finally agreed to let me spend my money on a new pc (woo hoo) after a few years with my laptop that has practically died. So it's been like a week of working out a pc online that can just scrape under my budget and it's finally complete, trouble is $100 (au) is a lot of money for a darn hard drive. Could I remove the hard drive from my laptop and place it in my new desktop? I've googled the question and i've gotten mixed feedback, between people saying "the 2.5" drive will explode because of the 12v provided instead of 5v needed", to "a special cable is needed", to "it'll be sweet as long as your motherboard can handle it" (< what does that even mean in this situation). so yeh, looking for a clear and concise answer. Can my laptop's hard drive go in my new desktop? If so, how do i do it? Thanks guys.