Hard drive from old PC to new

[stanleythedog]

I'm planning to move my old hard drive from my Windows 7 Ultimate, Service Pack 1, 32bit PC to this PC as an additional hard drive:

Processor: Intel® CoreTM i5-4670 3.4GHz Haswell

Processor cooler: CoolerMaster Blizzard T2

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H87M-D3H H87 Chipset

RAM: Geil 2X4GB DDR3 1600Mhz Enhance Corsa

Graphics card: Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce GTX650 2G-5

Hard drive: Western Digital Blue 1TB SATA3 7200RPM 64MB

LG Sata DVD x24

On-board 7.1 Channel Audio

On-board 10/100/1000

Power supply: CoolerMaster Gxii 550W

Case: CoolerMaster Elite 311

Windows 7, 64bit.



Will the old hard drive and it's programs conflict with the new PC in some way? Does it matter that I'm transferring a hard drive from a Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit PC to a Windows 7 64bit PC? Is there even a difference between Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 7?

 

[USAFRet]

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PC is already expensive as is.... Now I gotta buy Office too....

Unless you really, really need MS Office, no, you don't.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice are mostly compatible, and free/opensource.

 

[stanleythedog]

What do you mean "mostly compatible"- will they open Word 2003 files?

 

[USAFRet]

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PC is already expensive as is.... Now I gotta buy Office too....

And if you're a student, often you can get office from school for little or nothing. Or if you're employed, some companies have an agreement with MS (Home Use Program). I get mine from work for $10.

 

[USAFRet]

What do you mean "mostly compatible"- will they open Word 2003 files?

Generally, yes. There may be some inconsistencies, but overall, it works.

A Word or Excel file with macros may be problematic, and the LibreOffice equivalent to Access is pretty braindead.
But usually a regular Word or Excel file works. Usually.

 

[stanleythedog]

What will I lose if all I do is transfer paint, word, music, etc. files and vital programs and games? What settings will I have to reset and how, what programs are must have for any normal PC? I'm scared of losing some hidden program that without me knowing held up the entire system.
And is there any way to transfer bookmarks from Chrome?

 

[Dark antz1]

What do you mean "mostly compatible"- will they open Word 2003 files?

Yes they will open all Microsoft office documents and save in MS office format.

 

[Ubrales]

Transfer bookmarks from Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/96816?hl=en

 

[Dark antz1]

What will I lose if all I do is transfer paint, word, music, etc. files and vital programs and games? What settings will I have to reset and how, what programs are must have for any normal PC? I'm scared of losing some hidden program that without me knowing held up the entire system.
And is there any way to transfer bookmarks from Chrome?

Windows OS 'hold up your system' everything else is just extra functionality. Most of this functionality is available free using programs like adobe flash, reader, java etc. However when you need it a website will generally tell you you need it to view the content.

I think you are getting too worried about this situation. Simply copy over all the media files you want to keep (pictures, songs, videos etc.) to your new hard drive and format your old one. Use Google to find free alternatives to basically any software you may need e.g. MS office = Open Office.

 

[stanleythedog]

I have no idea what formatting does

 

[USAFRet]

I have no idea what formatting does

 

[Dark antz1]

I have no idea what formatting does

Formatting in simple terms is wiping your drive clean making it empty again. (This isn't precisely true but in terms of your need to understand it is).
To do this. Right-click your hardrive in 'Computer' folder and select format. Choose NTFS file system and 4096byte logical blocks. Then click format. Should only take a few seconds if quick-format is selected. Make sure you have all your media files off first before you do this and afterwards the drive will be 'clean'.