Do I need to get a new hard drive?

[Acusiont]

My current computer is about 5 years old. I got it in either 2012 or 2011, sometime around then. The processor is fine, the ram is enough, and throughout the entire time I've had it, I've only had one issue: The hard drive finally said "Imminent hard drive failure" in February and I went out and got a new, slightly smaller one and just redownloaded all my programs and games and got Windows 10 on it for free through a recovery software I made on my laptop.

Now, I'm building my own computer, and I was planning on using the new 'old' hard drive it in. The new one was a terabyte HDD.

I was wondering if I would be able to use it with a brand new mother board, or if I would have to format it, or if I had to get an entirely new hard drive and just transfer stuff over. I'm heading to Best Buy later to pick up a few things I still needed (a wireless network adapter and a liquid cooler) and could get a 120gb SSD and 1 TB HDD while I'm there for, probably, under $100 after my employee discount. I know that it would be worth it to go with that set up rather than just the single TB HDD I had now, I'm just wondering if I absolutely needed to.

 

[drtweak]

With windows 10 moving a drive and having it boot up usually works. With 7 and below forget about trying to do that. I have moved a SSD from a AMD AM3 to a Dell Optiplex with a Skylake CPU and then finally to a 990FX AM3+ without having to reinstall windows. I just moved the SSD and booted.

If the PC was bought with a RETAIL copy of windows, and it isn't a OEM (AKA Store bought PC) you can move the hard drive and call up MS and have it activated.

Most people will say reformat and reinstall and I do agree with them on that but sometimes people can't do that. I had no issue moving that SSD around but some people might have different experiences.

as far as just using it in general go for it.