Dead Computer Need Help With Hard Drive!!!

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KisNap

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Hi,
Long story short: my motherboard died after 7 glorious years.

My problem: not all of the stuff on my hard drive was backed up onto my external backup drive.

Question: If I 1) put my old hard drive (with windows 7 OS on it) in an external enclosure will I be able to access the contents or 2) if I put it in my new computer, will it act as a normal extra drive where I can access it without reformatting it? Below are the specs of my new computer scheduled to be shipped on 5/12.

CPU: 4790K
Ram: 16mb
HD 1: 256 SSD
HD2: 1TB
HD3: None
Graphics: 4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 745

End result: I want to be able to get the information on that old drive and the computer it was in is no longer working.

Thanks for your input!!!
 
1) Yep
2) Yep

It should just show up as the next logical drive once you either connect it as an external or install it as an internal.
 
it will automatically be allocated as a different drive other than C:. IF it somehow registers as C: you can adjust the priority/allocation in BIOS settings, but usually it is just automatic.
 
Thanks everyone. Sounds easy enough and will keep me out of the doghouse for not backing up as often as I should!
 
KisNap said:
will keep me out of the doghouse for not backing up as often as I should!
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Nah, that just gets you one of these ;)

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Need to stay on topic in threads instead of going off into a tangent. Not helping the OP one bit.
 
If you add the drive to an existing build with a pre-existing windows install you may need to mount it from disk management in windows to assign a drive letter to it and access its contents. The best thing to do would be to take any important files/documents from the drive and then format the drive to wipe it and put those files back on it.

If there are any installed programs on that drive that were dependant on registry entries you will be unable to use them and you will have to reinstall those programs when you get your new PC, even if you do decide to install them back to your old drive, in order for those programs to be in the windows registry and function properly.
 
I think the bone flash drive was funny.. in reference to the doghouse. Also yes flash drives are great for backup.
 
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