HDD related question

[Sartaknight]

Hello everyone, I was just wondering If I could use my hdd as a back up for most of my data.

I'm building a new system ina month or so, and I intend to purchase an SSD and a new HDD. Anyway, my current HDD has around 50gb of important data I want to keep, and I was wondering how to, once I have my new system running, connect the HDD and transfer all the data. Keep in mind this is an old drive and it has its problems (rpm and read write speeds), will it harm my computer? If I connect it to a Sata (before boot I guess), will it change anything in my system, or act as a "USB Drive". Last, it also has the Windows OS which I will be transfering with Media Creation Tool to the SSD.

Did I make myself clear?

[Sack]

Just connect it with a sata cable, and it should pop up like a normal drive, just be careful not to accidentally format it. I would also recommend you do clean install of windows since you're actually going to build a whole new computer, unless you want a world of pain and an unstable system, do yourself a favour reinstall

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

Nothing should really happen, it'll just act like another Drive in windows.