Hard Drive Question Please Help

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Vince604

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I want a new hard drive, but I'm wondering if it's this easy to install. Can I just remove my existing hard drive and put in the new one and turn on my computer? What will happen?

I'm running my desktop PC on Windows 10.
 
You can't just replace it and boot to windows. You would have to reinstall windows or clone old drive to new. Is your existing drive bad or is it just getting full?
 
johnb35 said:
You can't just replace it and boot to windows. You would have to reinstall windows or clone old drive to new. Is your existing drive bad or is it just getting full?
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Oh yea sorry thats what I meant, so if I take out my existing hard drive and put in the new one then turn on my computer it would ask if I want to install windows?
 
Vince604 said:
Oh yea sorry thats what I meant, so if I take out my existing hard drive and put in the new one then turn on my computer it would ask if I want to install windows?
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It wouldn't ask you anything. It would say there is no boot device and ask you to reboot.

As John said, you either need to clone your old HDD or reinstall Windows from scratch.
 
If there is nothing wrong with your old HD and all you want to do is to put a bigger one in for more capacity, you can clone the old drive to the new drive. Cloning is creating a mirror copy of the old one with OS, programs, folders/files in the new one. There is option for you to make the partition larger to make use of the larger capacity.

There are a couple of sticky threads here you can read up. Mostly is related to cloning a SSD but it should be the same for other HD too.

If you run into problem, come back here and I will try to help you.

But if you are on a desktop and you have a spare drive base, you can just add another HD to the system without going thru the trouble.
 
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