HDD transfer

[Chris Blackwing]

So i recently built a new computer its a ryzen 7 1700 windows 10 system, i have a old amd A8 laptop running windows 10 with a screen broken beyond repair, it still starts up when connected to a hdmi display and works normally.

The issue is the laptop has a 1tb hard drive with some data id like to have, i was wondering if i can transfer the hdd from the laptop to the pc without corrupting or loosing the data, the extra 1tb of space would be handy as mine only has 2tb and a 250gb ssd.

[Origami Cactus]

Just take out the harddrive and put it in your pc? Connect the sata power and sata data cables and it should work fine.

[Fasauceome]

22 minutes ago, Chris Blackwing said:

only has 2tb

Oh that's all? 

 

You should be able to toss the notebook drive into your PC no problem, then I recommend you get every bit of important data off, then completely wipe the drive and reformat it to clear junk and old windows install

[Enderman]

Yeah but you should be booting windows from the computer's drive, not the laptop's drive.