Hard drive swap between pc's ok?

[Epiclol86]

I installed a secondary hard drive (HDD) on a pc some time ago, and it has a lot of data i need on it. Now the problem is: i am moving this summer to another country, and i won't take this pc with me (it's too heavy and it's too old anyways to pay for moving it (q6600, gt 630, 4 gb ddr2 ram etc.) plus i have another rig i use for gaming, which will be moving) So i wonder: can i take out the secondary hard drive from my old work pc and just plug it in my new gaming rig? I know it's a stupid question, but i just never had to do this before, and i never wondered about it!

[Claryn]

2 minutes ago, Epiclol86 said:

I installed a secondary hard drive (HDD) on a pc some time ago, and it has a lot of data i need on it. Now the problem is: i am moving this summer to another country, and i won't take this pc with me (it's too heavy and it's too old anyways to pay for moving it (q6600, gt 630, 4 gb ddr2 ram etc.) plus i have another rig i use for gaming, which will be moving) So i wonder: can i take out the secondary hard drive from my old work pc and just plug it in my new gaming rig? I know it's a stupid question, but i just never had to do this before, and i never wondered about it!

Yes you can. If it has a Windows install it might be a bit upset if you have changed out the motherboard or CPU though. 

[Redliquid]

Yes

[Digital]

As a secondary HDD, yes you can just plug it in. If it has an OS installed, you might need to reconfigure your boot order from bios, tho very unlikely that it would change.

[Godlygamer23]

As a function, the secondary drive will work in the new build, but you may have to do some special stuff depending on what's stored on it.