Old HDD new pc

[Wackojacko]

Hello all,

 

i have an old 1tb HDD from an old laptop which is full of movies, music, games, movies etc.

i am putting this hdd in my new laptop, which will also have an SSD as boot drive,

my question is can i play games on the old HDD without formatting it and all? or should i have to copy it over to external format it, and reinstall it?

because i had an 750gb hard drive in this new laptop, and an ssd as boot drive, this worked perfectly, but want to expand and want all the files i have on this one on my new laptop.

is this possible without formatting?

i really want it to work like this really.

 

thanks,

 

[79wjd]

Hello all,

 

i have an old 1tb HDD from an old laptop which is full of movies, music, games, movies etc.

i am putting this hdd in my new laptop, which will also have an SSD as boot drive,

my question is can i play games on the old HDD without formatting it and all? or should i have to copy it over to external format it, and reinstall it?

because i had an 750gb hard drive in this new laptop, and an ssd as boot drive, this worked perfectly, but want to expand and want all the files i have on this one on my new laptop.

is this possible without formatting?

i really want it to work like this really.

 

thanks,

You can still use it....although, I really would reformat it just to get rid of all the crap thats built up on it. 

[Askew]

Everything apart from the games, I'd reinstall those.

[Gung Pow Chicken]

I don't see why you couldn't play them off the old hdd.

[Appelzaadje]

well the games will go on the end of the HDD so the slowest part i would format it making 2 partitions 1e for games rest for crap just to get max speed

[Wackojacko]

Ty for all the reactions, I will probably get it cleaned up eventually, I was just wondering if the games could work

[LogicalDrm]

If your games are Steam/Origin, you can just define new filelocations and verify cache or repair installs.