ktc13 Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 Hi does anyone know if i can take my hard drive from my old computer and install it in another one i have Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 Hi does anyone know if i can take my hard drive from my old computer and install it in another one i haveOh yes you can do that. But, it might not, in fact probably will not, work. It all depends what you are proposing to do when you have moved it from one computer to the other.So...a bit more detail of what the computers are, and what their OSs are, and what you are wanting/expecting to do, might help someone to help you.If you are expecting to move the hard drive, and take with it a working operating system, I think you are going to get an answer you will not want. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktc13 Posted May 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 Hi does anyone know if i can take my hard drive from my old computer and install it in another one i haveOh yes you can do that. But, it might not, in fact probably will not, work. It all depends what you are proposing to do when you have moved it from one computer to the other.So...a bit more detail of what the computers are, and what their OSs are, and what you are wanting/expecting to do, might help someone to help you.If you are expecting to move the hard drive, and take with it a working operating system, I think you are going to get an answer you will not want.yes i have i think a dead psu on my xp home and thought i could take the hard drive from that and put it in another comp i have which is xp pro was thinking about just using the one with xp home or is it easyer just to change the psu in the xp home comp bearing in mind it is not 100% the psu has died but all the info i am getting points to that spose i am just trying to fix my prob without having to part with any money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted May 20, 2009 Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 I see pops is watching ths thread and he has much more expertise than I have, but I would be inclined to think the PSU swap is more likely to succeed that the HD swap. It all depends of course of physical and electrical attributes.. Pops may come back with some suggestion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktc13 Posted May 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2009 I see pops is watching ths thread and he has much more expertise than I have, but I would be inclined to think the PSU swap is more likely to succeed that the HD swap. It all depends of course of physical and electrical attributes.. Pops may come back with some suggestion.ok thanks will wait and see Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 Yes, I feel that you would be better installing a new PSU and having two machines rather than one that is mangled together. You would not be able to make Windows from your old machine work in another one as it "knows" the machine it belongs to.If you just want to use the drive as an auxiliary (2nd) drive for storage then there is no problem at all. All you do in that case is connect up the drive on the secondary IDE/SATA and then reformat.I you want information on reformatting, come back to us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 Yes, I feel that you would be better installing a new PSU and having two machines rather than one that is mangled together. You would not be able to make Windows from your old machine work in another one as it "knows" the machine it belongs to.If you just want to use the drive as an auxiliary (2nd) drive for storage then there is no problem at all. All you do in that case is connect up the drive on the secondary IDE/SATA and then reformat.I you want information on reformatting, come back to us.The hard drive from my old computer is now the D drive in my newer computer and as such works fine for storage and back ups etc. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktc13 Posted May 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 Yes, I feel that you would be better installing a new PSU and having two machines rather than one that is mangled together. You would not be able to make Windows from your old machine work in another one as it "knows" the machine it belongs to.If you just want to use the drive as an auxiliary (2nd) drive for storage then there is no problem at all. All you do in that case is connect up the drive on the secondary IDE/SATA and then reformat.I you want information on reformatting, come back to us.ok thanks i will try the psu route first would i be better getting a higher watt psu than it already had it was a 250 watt i do a lot of video editing does that make a difference Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted May 21, 2009 Report Share Posted May 21, 2009 250 watt is not really powerful enough for a modern machine. Video editing can make your machine work very hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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