Question I want to move my HDD to a friend's pc to download and after move it back to mine.

[IceFlopper]

My internet speed is very slow (~500kbps)
And his is about 20MBps.

If i were to take my nearly empty HDD with only the Oculus app and Steam and either switch it with his HDD currently in his pc or place it inside with his HDD would this work and cause no issues or would we have some issues with it?
(my HDD does NOT have a windows installation installed neither does his)
(Both our windows installations are on our SSD and are both Windows 10)

FYI i need to download about 30-40 games from my steam library.

 

[jay32267]

Yes I think this will work and should cause no issues.

You don't have to replace his HDD if he has an extra SATA port....you should be able to just add your HDD.

 

[IceFlopper]

Yes I think this will work and should cause no issues.

You don't have to replace his HDD if he has an extra SATA port.

If he doesnt would it matter at all if i did replace it?

 

[jay32267]

No.....as long as it's not the boot drive.

 

[popatim]

If the HDD was in the PC when you installed Windows to the SSD then it could be the boot drive.
Try to boot your PC when you have the HDD out and see.

 

[saurabhprob]

Yes, it is easily possible, but you have to connect your HDD like his HDD must be primary slot one. By default pc always boot with the HDD which connects with slot one on the motherboard.

After connection starts your pc and right click on My computer>Manage>Disk Management. Here you can find all the media storage device connected with this computer.

 

[popatim]

@saurabhprob - this is somewhat incorrect. Some motherboards have a port 0 and on some motherbds port1 on the board is not 1 in the actual system (frustrating) and still (hopefully very few) boards have dynamic slot assignments so what was port 1 changed to port 6 when you added another drive (Super frustrating! Curse you Biostar!)

 

[AllanGH]

Curse you Biostar!

Do I detect a tinge of 'Finding Nemo' in that sentiment?

 

[saurabhprob]

@saurabhprob - this is somewhat incorrect. Some motherboards have a port 0 and on some motherbds port1 on the board is not 1 in the actual system (frustrating) and still (hopefully very few) boards have dynamic slot assignments so what was port 1 changed to port 6 when you added another drive (Super frustrating! Curse you Biostar!)

May be you are right.

 

[popatim]

I know I am, I still have that Biostar board too. TA970+ LoL

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, it is easily possible, but you have to connect your HDD like his HDD must be primary slot one. By default pc always boot with the HDD which connects with slot one on the motherboard.

After connection starts your pc and right click on My computer>Manage>Disk Management. Here you can find all the media storage device connected with this computer.

Are you referring to trying to take a drive+OS from System A, put it in System B, and boot from it?
That does not appear to be what the OP is talking about.