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Right now I have a PC with a SSD as my boot drive and a Hard Drive as my mass storage drive with all of my games, big software ect. I am making a new PC and I already have a new drive with a fresh copy of Windows as well as a few games and software already up and running. What I want to do is take my mass storage drive from my old computer and put it into my new computer as a mass storage drive in that computer. I do not want to wipe this drive and reformat it because I have lots of software and games installed that I don't want to lose. Is there any way to do this?

Yes. Move the drive.

 

Yes it should be as easy as that, If its formatted as NTFS (which is probably is btw) you should be able to just move the drive and be happy with results!

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Right now I have a PC with a SSD as my boot drive and a Hard Drive as my mass storage drive with all of my games, big software ect. I am making a new PC and I already have a new drive with a fresh copy of Windows as well as a few games and software already up and running. What I want to do is take my mass storage drive from my old computer and put it into my new computer as a mass storage drive in that computer. I do not want to wipe this drive and reformat it because I have lots of software and games installed that I don't want to lose. Is there any way to do this?

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Right now I have a PC with a SSD as my boot drive and a Hard Drive as my mass storage drive with all of my games, big software ect. I am making a new PC and I already have a new drive with a fresh copy of Windows as well as a few games and software already up and running. What I want to do is take my mass storage drive from my old computer and put it into my new computer as a mass storage drive in that computer. I do not want to wipe this drive and reformat it because I have lots of software and games installed that I don't want to lose. Is there any way to do this?

Yes. Move the drive.

 

Yes it should be as easy as that, If its formatted as NTFS (which is probably is btw) you should be able to just move the drive and be happy with results!

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Unplug it and plug into the new pc?

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Yes. Move the drive.

 

Yes it should be as easy as that, If its formatted as NTFS (which is probably is btw) you should be able to just move the drive and be happy with results!

Thank You much!! Just wanted to make sure so I don't ruin my drive or anything on it

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Thank You much!! Just wanted to make sure so I don't ruin my drive or anything on it

Be careful with it. Be sure everything is clear of power and GROUND YOURSELF before moving. Other than that, yep its that easy!

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