Crashed Hd Transfer

[Duane]

So my old Dell finally crashed and I just bought a new HP. Can I simply remove the old hd from the Dell and stick it in the HP and transfer some of my old junk? There should be no virus problems if that matters.....so can this be done? HP said that the warranty wouldn't be voided by adding the old drive......help?

[Snow]

I think if you are adding the hard drive as a second drive then it shouldn't make any difference, but you would be better off talking to someone like SJMike who knows more about this sort of stuff than me.

[Robertbeer]

An old disk on a new computer is not good idea, if you only want to take out your files you can plug the HD in other Computer and make your back up.

If you really want to keep that HD in your new computer plug it as an slave if it is an IDE HD, with SATA HD that is not necessary.

Robert

[sjmike]

Similar to what Robert posted, its not a problem taking out your old hard drive and hooking it up as a secondary drive on your current system. The easiest way, IMO, would be to disconnect the CD/DVD drive and hook up the old HD to that cable. That way you avoid any potential conflicts with jumpers (master/slave/cable select) on your old hard drive.

Its very easy to do, just make sure the power is turned off and the power cord unplugged before you open up your case and disconnect / install anything.

if you have any other questions, let me know.

Mike

[Duane]

Thanks.........I'm playing with it now. I just want to take the old junk off, not keep it my new pc. An old 80 gb harddrive isn't worth much now that I got 320 gb to play with.

[sorrowman]

On the other hand, if the disc is still good, and extra 80GB worth of storage space never hurts

My experience is that the bigger your disc the easier you go about with storing all kinds of useless crap on it going like :"oh.....I've got so and so many GB space so, what the hell" My guess is 320GB will be full in no time, even more so when dealing with bootleg video DVD's and FLAC files and god knows what.