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Switching Hard Drives

Orli155
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I have 2 hard drives. They're on different computers. Neither of them are boot drives. What's the best way to switch their contents. Just copy and paste? Will all the installed programs still work?

 

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If you have the capacity or a third drive to help, just a straight copy/paste should work. Installed programs may or may not. I manage to run Bad Company 2 off my secondary drive when I never actually reinstalled it with Windows. You'll probably have to reassign drive letters though.

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Files and certain programs will work just fine after being just copy/pasted onto the new drive.. Like Sarcasm(nice name, btw) said, installed programs most likely won't work without needing to be re-installed.

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