Can I extract files off my old hard drive?

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newbee

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I am going to upgrade my comp to a 80gb WD800JB hard drive from a 20gb. I also purchased a 6gb external hard drive to back everything up. But the more I read I wonder if I can just remove the old hard drive, install the new one and format it. Then re-install the old hard drive as a slave and then extract the files I want off it. Does this sound right? Or would it be quicker and easier to just go ahead and back the files up on the external hard drive since I already bought it?
 
easier to just do tha slave, and its faster too... but you'll need to reinstall games and most programs though
 
Then re-install the old hard drive as a slave and then extract the files I want off it.
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That would be easiest. But why bother taking them off at all, just leave them there and run that drive as a second drive
 
apj101 said:
That would be easiest. But why bother taking them off at all, just leave them there and run that drive as a second drive
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I would if it wasn't so noisy, but then it would only make noise when I accessed it right? Since it would be the slave.
 
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