I have a new pc with 256 gb ssd and windows 10. I have an old 1 TB hdd from my old pc which has window 7 installed on it as well as it has various applications installed on it. How should I connect my old hdd to my new pc while retaining all the data in old hdd? I don't want old applications, I just want data from my old hdd.
If it's a desktop PC just connect it internally. W7 on it will most probably not even boot or run on new PC so just make sure that BIOS i set to boot from your new disk.
All data will be there but it's highly unlikely any programs installed on it would work.
Best thing would be to transfer/copy any data files to another place and delete all partitions on it than transfer data back to it.
If you don't have enough spare space for that data, you could partition that disk, copy all desirable files to it and than delete other partitions, then you can make new partition and if you want merge them.
Use
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html for those operations with partitioning.
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