New hard drive

hyPoxxx.dll · 10-23-2007, 03:53 AM

Hi, I recently destroyed my hard drive (dont ask how). And, my CD drive doesnt open untill windows boots (Lol @ ECS motherboards). Can i take the harddrive out of my other pc? (dell xps 400) and put the new one in and install windows?

Thanks.

-dan

EDIT: They are both SATA hdds

PC eye · 10-23-2007, 04:25 AM

When moving the drive from the Dell into the present case you will have to clean it up and end up removing the hidden recovery data as well as all drivers provided by Dell for the model you have. In other words a total wipe of that drive to see a clean copy of Windows go onto it.

From then on you can reinstall Windows without a total wipe if problems like a bad install should happen. That drive or another sata model shouldn't see any real problems other then that. Is the one from the Dell another 250gb or smaller? The other option is simply grabbing a replacement to leave the Dell intact.

10-23-2007, 03:53 AM	#1 (permalink)
hyPoxxx.dll Silver Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 222	New hard drive Hi, I recently destroyed my hard drive (dont ask how). And, my CD drive doesnt open untill windows boots (Lol @ ECS motherboards). Can i take the harddrive out of my other pc? (dell xps 400) and put the new one in and install windows? Thanks. -dan EDIT: They are both SATA hdds __________________ MB:MSI P7N CPU: Pentium D 960 @ 4.8ghz stable and cool. RAM: 4gb gskill pc6400 Video 1: Radeon 3870 x2 Video 2: Radeon 3870 x2 PSU: Rosewill 950w (extreme/max) edition Crysis runs like its nothing.

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10-23-2007, 04:25 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye banned Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,803	When moving the drive from the Dell into the present case you will have to clean it up and end up removing the hidden recovery data as well as all drivers provided by Dell for the model you have. In other words a total wipe of that drive to see a clean copy of Windows go onto it. From then on you can reinstall Windows without a total wipe if problems like a bad install should happen. That drive or another sata model shouldn't see any real problems other then that. Is the one from the Dell another 250gb or smaller? The other option is simply grabbing a replacement to leave the Dell intact.