Wiping Old Drives

[KaireFeare]

Alright buds. I've come back again, because I can't learn how to google properly, and find my answer! Unless I didn't see it then, I wasted your time, back on topic.

I have 2 pcs, atm. 1 fresh out of the box, and my good ol' trusty 6 year old pc. 

I have 2 drives on the old one, and 2 other drives on the new one, I want to transfer the old drives to the new computer, how would I go about doing this?

 

I want to try to avoid re-downloading all my games, if possible. My old SSD had all of my mainly launched games, like League, Planetside 2, Warframe, and etc. While my HDD also had other games on it, just it wasn't all the games that I completely played / needed, along with any extra stuff and the OS.

So I'm pretty sure I won't be able to just plug and play, there'd be errors of some sort, like registry errors. 

How would I go about in doing this process. 

Switching the 2 drives to my new pc, without re-downloading any games, if possible, if not run me through the directions to wipe the drive, and then get my stuff onto the main PC.

[Electronics Wizardy]

just move the drives to the new system

[KaireFeare]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

just move the drives to the new system

I can just do that? What about the OS on the old HDD?

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, KaireFeare said:

I can just do that? What about the OS on the old HDD?

if your not booting from it, it wont load any software on the drive. 

[KaireFeare]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

if your not booting from it, it wont load any software on the drive. 

So no registry errors, I just don't want to break my PC, :^)

[Electronics Wizardy]

4 minutes ago, KaireFeare said:

So no registry errors, I just don't want to break my PC, :^)

Won't cause any errors. 

[KaireFeare]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Won't cause any errors. 

I'll trust you LOL

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, KaireFeare said:

I'll trust you LOL

It will work as any other storage drive.

[Princess Luna]

Just because it has an OS installed it doesn't mean it'll give you any issue, your BIOS is set to boot with your new storage device regardless of other HDs you connect, yes there will be a Windows Folder on it but it won't be of any use, some installed games on it might struggle due to lack of Register Keys and other normal things that get edited on the system when you install them, so if you try playing something and it doesn't work the only way is re-installing it.

Everything else, movies photos files etc will be safe and sound, desktop stuff can be found on the Users folder.

[KaireFeare]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

It will work as any other storage drive.

You my friend, also helped!

1 minute ago, Princess Cadence said:

Just because it has an OS installed it doesn't mean it'll give you any issue, your BIOS is set to boot with your new storage device regardless of other HDs you connect, yes there will be a Windows Folder on it but it won't be of any use, some installed games on it might struggle due to lack of Register Keys and other normal things that get edited on the system when you install them, so if you try playing something and it doesn't work the only way is re-installing it.

Everything else, movies photos files etc will be safe and sound, desktop stuff can be found on the Users folder.

Cool thanks for the clarification!