I'm looking for a little help with my hard drives. I've recently upgraded my PC and I bought a new hard drive and installed windows 7 pro on it. I have another older hard drive from my last build with Windows 8.1 installed on it. My old drive (w8.1) has all of my games and files on it. I was wondering if there is anyway other than the slow process of moving my 800gbs of files with a flash drive to transfer the files off of it and onto my new one. Or better yet can I just use my old drive and remove windows 8.1 off of it somehow but keep my old files? Any advice is appreciated.
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I'm looking for a little help with my hard drives. I've recently upgraded my PC and I bought a new hard drive and installed windows 7 pro on it. I have another older hard drive from my last build with Windows 8.1 installed on it. My old drive (w8.1) has all of my games and files on it. I was wondering if there is anyway other than the slow process of moving my 800gbs of files with a flash drive to transfer the files off of it and onto my new one. Or better yet can I just use my old drive and remove windows 8.1 off of it somehow but keep my old files? Any advice is appreciated.
Plug the old hard drive into your computer, copy files over? Having an OS installed doesn't make it unusable as a storage drive; you should be able to access the other partition normally.
Plug the old hard drive into your computer, copy files over? Having an OS installed doesn't make it unusable as a storage drive; you should be able to access the other partition normally.
WaldoPlug the old hard drive into your computer, copy files over? Having an OS installed doesn't make it unusable as a storage drive; you should be able to access the other partition normal
Should I be able to boot programs off of it still? I've tried booting steam a few times to no avail
*edit* and after I posted that steam booted up like normal
[quote=Waldo]Plug the old hard drive into your computer, copy files over? Having an OS installed doesn't make it unusable as a storage drive; you should be able to access the other partition normal[/quote]
Should I be able to boot programs off of it still? I've tried booting steam a few times to no avail
*edit* and after I posted that steam booted up like normal
Should I be able to boot programs off of it still? I've tried booting steam a few times to no avail
*edit* and after I posted that steam booted up like normal
install steam on the new one and go to Steam > Downloads > Steam Library Folders, and add your old Steam's install folder as a library. it'll automatically pick up all your old games and allow you to play them without transferring. depending on the game you might have to hunt down and copy over save data and settings, though. copying My Documents/My Games is a good way to get most of them, but some store data in AppData and other places.
applications will either run or not run depending on how deeply they're integrated into the OS. if they only install to one folder and only require a few dependencies like DirectX or .NET, they'll probably run flawlessly. however if it's something like an Adobe product where it installs data and preferences into all sorts of different AppData and Windows folders, then it probably won't run without re-installing.
install steam on the new one and go to Steam > Downloads > Steam Library Folders, and add your old Steam's install folder as a library. it'll automatically pick up all your old games and allow you to play them without transferring. depending on the game you might have to hunt down and copy over save data and settings, though. copying My Documents/My Games is a good way to get most of them, but some store data in AppData and other places.
applications will either run or not run depending on how deeply they're integrated into the OS. if they only install to one folder and only require a few dependencies like DirectX or .NET, they'll probably run flawlessly. however if it's something like an Adobe product where it installs data and preferences into all sorts of different AppData and Windows folders, then it probably won't run without re-installing.
applications will either run or not run depending on how deeply they're integrated into the OS. if they only install to one folder and only require a few dependencies like DirectX or .NET, they'll probably run flawlessly. however if it's something like an Adobe product where it installs data and preferences into all sorts of different AppData and Windows folders, then it probably won't run without re-installing.
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