Hard disk swaps

[george the lemon]

So i am getting a new pc in a few days at the moment i have an ssd on win 10 and another hard drive with all my files and data i plan to reinstall win 10 on a new ssd and simply remove the hard drive with all my files and place it into my new rig i am fairly sure that the hard drive will not run into any problems and all all my files will remain just asking to be sure 

[skimmilk5]

Sounds good to me!

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

1 hour ago, george the lemon said:

So i am getting a new pc in a few days at the moment i have an ssd on win 10 and another hard drive with all my files and data i plan to reinstall win 10 on a new ssd and simply remove the hard drive with all my files and place it into my new rig i am fairly sure that the hard drive will not run into any problems and all all my files will remain just asking to be sure 

 

Hi mate! 

 

Yes, you should be able to do that and access the data on the HDD. I'd only suggest to make a backup of the information stored on the HDD before that just in case so you can have it on another location.

 

However,  do have in mind that you won't be able to run the most of the programs and you will have to reinstall them. That's because some programs don't rely on much if anything outside of their directory, they can still run after the OS is installed on the other drive. Others however make registry changes and links itself to DLL's and other necessary bits all over the OS, which they can't fine without the registry entries in place.

 

Hope this helps and best of luck!