help pls on old hard drive

[bigpete]

hello all 

 

well i have a old hard drive from a prebuild Hp pc and i would like to use it in my own PC (custom build) but when it was in the HP pc the power was cut off during a Windows 8.1 update and i could not get it to boot back into the os after.  So i just replaced it with a new one and install win 10. Now my question is that would it be wise to reformat the drive and use it again as storage in my own pc or not use it?

[Amoxichilling]

I have used a hdd as storage in a similar situation with no problems. Reformat it, run some hdd benchmarks with crystaldisk or other software to check hdd health status and use it as you like. 

[TetraSky]

It's unlikely that the drive itself received physical damage.

It's more likely that the update failed and caused Windows to refuse to boot.(which could've potentially been fixed by either reinstalling windows or recovering from a backup)

 

As such, there shouldn't be any issues to simply take the drive and use it as a secondary storage device after formatting it.

[bigpete]

thank you for the response and i had the same idea that it would work just fine but i was not for sure it would. and i trust this forums so thank you again and i did install and reformat also check with crystal disk and all is good