Move harddrive

[Dreamplay]

So i wanned to know when you move a harddrive from a old on to a new pc. Is it just to format the harddrive and plug it in and play (plug and play) or can it cause an error and do you have to do anything extra? Im gonna build it this evening so i whould happly get a fast answer.

[techguru]

backup data off drive and format it

[Arc_Jester]

If it's a new HDD there is no need to format, your OS will automatically format the HDD if necessary.

 

-edit- A HDD from a previous build should work automatically but you should backup the files on it first just in case.

[insayan]

If you install it and can't see it in your explorer, head over to disk management and assign a drive letter to it or mark the drive as online.

[Redsun20]

If you want to use the old hard drive as your O.S drive and don't wsh to reinstall, it will most likely not work. Sometimes it does, but usually it doesn't. Regardless, back it up before you try. If you want to use it as storage, back up the drive, format it as NTFS in disc management, and put it in the new computer.

[Captain_WD]

So i wanned to know when you move a harddrive from a old on to a new pc. Is it just to format the harddrive and plug it in and play (plug and play) or can it cause an error and do you have to do anything extra? Im gonna build it this evening so i whould happly get a fast answer.

 

 

Hey Dreamplay,

 

Moving drives between computers is usually an easy task to do. If you don't need the OS on the drive, you can simply format the partition with the OS on. This is easily done when you plug the drive to your new computer and start installing the new OS. The installer gives you the option to delete and format one or more partitions on the drive. 

You could also do this by connecting the drive to an already working computer and format one or more partitions from Disk Management. 

 

Do have in mind that formatting will erase everything on the partition so if you want to save some of the data on there, you would have to back it up beforehand.

 

Captain_WD.