Move Old Hard Drive To New Computer As Backup – Retain Data?
August 21st, 2013
My old gaming rig has died, I assume it’s the motherboard or the PSU, I’m not bothering diagnosing as it’s given me an excuse to build a new rig, something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now.
My new rig will have a solid state drive running 64bit Windows 7, my old rig has a relatively new 1TB SATA hard drive running 32bit Windows 7 plus about 350gb’s of data I wish to keep. I want to use my old hard drive as back up in the new system without losing any of the data on it, is this possible? I’m not interested in running the programs installed on the old drive, just using the data- music, ebooks, movies etc.
Thanks in advance.
If your using your old drive as the second drive, yep. You can just delete the windows folder on it, and you can keep all your files. Be careful what you delete on your old drive if you do delete files or folders. But yes.
andy1033 replied: If your using your old drive as the second drive, yep. You can just delete the windows folder on it, and you can keep all your files. Be careful what you delete on your old drive if you do delete files or folders. But yes.
Cheers mate, that’s great news.