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[DrMagnusW]

Alright, so i bought this used pc, its good, but it only has 246 GB SSD, so i got a old harddrive from a school pc, it got windows 7 installed, so if i connect this to the HDD, will it do anything weird? it got 7200RPM and 500GB space,

Thank you for your time! it is a SATA HDD, so i think its all good with ports

[manikyath]

if you mmmmak sure boot priorities are set to the SSD, it shouldnt do weird things.

[Fasauceome]

Nothing bad will happen. Once you get into windows, reformat the drive and wipe all the data

[DrMagnusW]

thank you!

[mariushm]

Just add the hard drive to the computer with a SATA cable.

The BIOS may detect that an operating system exists on that hard drive, or by adding the hard drive the order of hard drives in BIOS may change and next time you start the pc it may try to start from the hard disk - in that case you just need to go in bios and say that you want to continue booting from SSD.

 

Once your OS loads from SSD, you can do whatever you want with that hard drive. If you want, format it.  You could just delete the old contents - though your Windows may prevent you from deleting the Windows folder on the hard disk.

[Paint Stick]

(Windows 7) If you right click on my computer on your desktop > manage> Disk/storage (on the left) this will display all drives and partitions on your computer.

 

This is important because windows 7 creates a 100 megabyte hidden partition of drive 0.  this partition contains all your boot parameters, so while formatting the drive will wipe the contents of the visible stuff,  the boot partition will still exist.

 

Delete, both partitions on the new drive, and select apply.  Then create a new partition and format it.

 

This will ensure that if anything wierd happens, your computer wont attempt to boot from the 500GB.

[seagate_surfer]

Fortunately since Windows 7 the drivers come within the OS, so it has thousands of drivers, making it of course be more heavy but saves a lot of time and effort avoiding a search on the internet for the proper driver (in special when you lost the drivers CD/DVD).