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hello i am new to the comunity and i am not really good at (wrighting please) nor computing

 

 

i am building my first computer an i am trying to use the hdd of my laptop as the maine boot drive.

 

i was wondering if i needed to cleen completely the hdd or i can just plug boot and play ???

 

please can somebody help me thanks

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You should be able to just plug it in. If you're using it as a boot drive, then it will be formatted when you install Windows. 

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should be just plug and go, you msy not hsve to even buy windows, also welcome to the fourms

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hello i am new to the comunity and i am not really good at (wrighting please) nor computing

 

 

i am building my first computer an i am trying to use the hdd of my laptop as the maine boot drive.

 

i was wondering if i needed to cleen completely the hdd or i can just plug boot and play ???

 

please can somebody help me thanks

You should get some cords when you get your PSU and MOBO use them. The one from the PSU is power the one from the MOBO is how you access it. How old is your laptop? is it an SSD or HDD? if it is 6gb make sure your MOBO has a 6gb sata port, or if it is 3gb do the same

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thanks a lot for the well commes 

 

 

i have a 640GB  WD scorpio blue hdd

 

 

from a asus  A73S laptop

 

and i was mor wondering if i realy need to re instal windows  in the hdd on i can just plug and hope for the best ???

 

thanks

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thanks a lot for the well commes 

 

 

i have a 640GB  WD scorpio blue hdd

 

 

from a asus  A73S laptop

 

and i was mor wondering if i realy need to re instal windows  in the hdd on i can just plug and hope for the best ???

 

thanks

You should be fine just plug and It should be the same…I think. at worst you back you're HDD, reformat it, and re-install everything. Ya it should work just fine

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thanks a lot i am going to try wen i get the rest of the pices

 

i just got my motherboard now i am going to buy the rest today 

 

just got pay yesterday :)

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