Change secondary HD to a previously used primary HD

[awill99]

I have a new Acer Aspire E5-575G-728Q with a 256 GB SSD primary HD running Win 10 and a 1 TB secondary HD. I have an older Acer Aspire AS7750G-9810 running Win 7 that has a 1 TB SSD but the computer is defective. I want to take the 1 TB SSD and replace the seconday 1 TB HD in the new computer so I can use it and its much faster speed and all the stored data on it but it has an active partition under Win 7. Will it work? Can I delete all the Win & program files on it and still see my data files? Anyway to convert it to a secondary HD without losing Data?

 

[Herc08]

Well first, I would just hook it up, and boot it up under the Windows 10 drive. Then once you are in Windows 10, copy the data you need, pretty much anything in the Documents or Downloads folder. Programs and drivers will not work since it's tied to the old registry. Once you copy the old data, just format as a secondary drive in Disk Management, and you are good to go.

 

[photonboy]

If I understand correctly:

1. shut down PC's
2. Move 1TB SSD to new computer
3. Start up (if it tries to boot to the 1TB SSD, go into the BIOS and make sure to boot to the correct version of Windows on the 256GB SSD)

4. Create a folder on the HDD, then COPY any files you want saved from the SSD to that new folder.
5. FORMAT the 1TB SSD (NTFS)
6. Create folders on the 1TB SSD

*Very little benefit to having an SSD as a secondary storage device unless it's for either increasing game boot times ( i.e. a Steam folder on the SSD), or video editing

 

[Herc08]

If I understand correctly:

1. shut down PC's
2. Move 1TB SSD to new computer
3. Start up (if it tries to boot to the 1TB SSD, go into the BIOS and make sure to boot to the correct version of Windows on the 256GB SSD)

4. Create a folder on the HDD, then COPY any files you want saved from the SSD to that new folder.
5. FORMAT the 1TB SSD (NTFS)
6. Create folders on the 1TB SSD

*Very little benefit to having an SSD as a secondary storage device unless it's for either increasing game boot times ( i.e. a Steam folder on the SSD), or video editing

Didn't even notice it was an SSD. Why not use it as a third drive, and have 2TB of space? I would say go RAID, but that could be tricky, and possibly lose data.