Recent content by christopherlam

Hi, I'm just off the back of a substantial PC part replacement where I had to replace pretty much everything. I have reinstalled Windows into a new SSD, but have my old SSD (which has Windows installed on it too) and would like to transfer some of the data over. How should I connect up my old...

Cool, thanks for clearing things up for me! I was just a little paranoid after the first big PC disaster I've had in three years, and wanted to check before I did anything rash.

The SSD was the drive I had installed windows onto, and other programs (games, Word, etc). I also have my work documents and other stuff on it. I gather that it's not just a plug and play situation - but if I do a fresh install on a new SSD, and then plug in my old SSD so I can transfer is that...

Would it work if I bought a new SSD, installed windows on that and then copied the data from the old one to the new?

So due to a set of very unfortunate circumstances I had to replace both my mobo and CPU - both of the old ones are effectively nonfunctional. I installed windows 10 on my SSD, which is still working - and I don't exactly know how to go about setting up my system again without losing the data on...