Need help with info

[GrimReapez]

Hi! , i need help with some info since i have never done this , I am looking to retrive some old files from a old hard drive that was from a windows 8 pc , photos , music , videos , etc , and then clean it out and use it as more space for my pc ,

but i am worried that if i connect this extra hard drive to my pc , which is windows 10 , will it destroy or corrupt my data on my first hard drive? , i could really use the info , i would really like to retrive these old files , 

what should i do , or should not do when it comes to this?

[Guest]

When you make sure your windows 10 drive remains the first start-up drive, it should not touch your windows 8 drive at all. Never had anything go corrupt this way. Just don't try to boot from the windows 8 drive if it hasn't been in that pc before, because it might try to fix itself for the new/other hardware. (which might or might not work)

 

I do see another issue... Profiles. Windows sometimes goes crazy in trying to protect the user files when they are inside personal user profiles, which would be password protected. So you MIGHT have some issues there. Don't know the fast and easy sollution to that, but by connecting the drive as you want to, you are still safe.