My 9-year old HP 700-230qe died. The HDD (which is a seagate barracuda and I believe works fine) has some files I'd like to recover. I have ordered a new computer with a SSD and that computer has 2 slots to add a HDD. My question is whether I should (1) buy a hard drive enclosure and hook the old HDD to the new computer via USB port or (2) put the old HDD into the new computer. The old HDD has windows 10 on it so I believe I'd have to change the bios on the new computer to make sure that the new computer doesn't try to boot from the old HDD. Any reason why I should choose one method over another? Is there any chance that inserting the HDD into the new computer would somehow screw up the settings in the new computer?
As a third alternative, I also have a very old system (about 14 years old) that I had taken apart but still works. It's a different motherboard and CPU but I could put it back together and hook up this old HDD to that system. My understanding, however, is that this might not be preferable because windows will recognize that the hardware is different. Moreover, that mobo only has USB 2.0 so moving files might be slow.
Any thoughts would be welcome. Thanks.
As a third alternative, I also have a very old system (about 14 years old) that I had taken apart but still works. It's a different motherboard and CPU but I could put it back together and hook up this old HDD to that system. My understanding, however, is that this might not be preferable because windows will recognize that the hardware is different. Moreover, that mobo only has USB 2.0 so moving files might be slow.
Any thoughts would be welcome. Thanks.