Phenomenological
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Long story short, my motherboard just died of old age, and as such I'm getting a new board, CPU, and case, to go with the graphics card and PSU I upgraded about a month ago. Rather an expensive failure, but at least I get an upgrade!
Now, I have two hard drives in my old computer. A day beforehand I backed them both up, but the backup for one drive failed. So my plan is to format the one that was properly backed up, do a clean install of the operating system on it, and then reinstall all my programs manually and restore the files from the backup. That's all well and good.
However, I want to retreive some data from the other hard drive that didn't back up correctly. My question is this: Once the computer is set up and running well, can I simply turn the computer off, plug the other hard drive into another slot in the machine, and boot her up again? Will the computer just recognise it as an extra hard drive, ask me to confirm it at boot, and then allow me to access it as an additional drive, or will it have a bit of a tantrum? Bearing in mind this drive was the C drive on the other computer. I don't want to lose the data on the drive, there's some important stuff on there.
Hope that makes sense!
Now, I have two hard drives in my old computer. A day beforehand I backed them both up, but the backup for one drive failed. So my plan is to format the one that was properly backed up, do a clean install of the operating system on it, and then reinstall all my programs manually and restore the files from the backup. That's all well and good.
However, I want to retreive some data from the other hard drive that didn't back up correctly. My question is this: Once the computer is set up and running well, can I simply turn the computer off, plug the other hard drive into another slot in the machine, and boot her up again? Will the computer just recognise it as an extra hard drive, ask me to confirm it at boot, and then allow me to access it as an additional drive, or will it have a bit of a tantrum? Bearing in mind this drive was the C drive on the other computer. I don't want to lose the data on the drive, there's some important stuff on there.
Hope that makes sense!
