Hi,
I recently got a new computer and wanted to reuse several of my old drives from my old computer to my new computer. I’ve looked things up and some people say it “could” work that I just plug in my old drives to the new PC as is and it may or may not work?
Or I will need to backup all my data, reformat all my old drives and then plug them into the new PC, and finally copy all of my old files into the drives.
Might be important to note that my old computer is an Intel cpu and motherboard and my new PC is AMD.
In any case, I’m leaning towards just being safe and reformatting my drives so that I don’t experience any weird issues when I plug them into the new PC. Should I reformat them on my old PC or on the new PC or how exactly could I go about this? Any best methods to do this?
Just would like to get more opinions/guidance on this. I’m sure these type of questions about installing old/new drives to other PC’s has been asked to death.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I recently got a new computer and wanted to reuse several of my old drives from my old computer to my new computer. I’ve looked things up and some people say it “could” work that I just plug in my old drives to the new PC as is and it may or may not work?
Or I will need to backup all my data, reformat all my old drives and then plug them into the new PC, and finally copy all of my old files into the drives.
Might be important to note that my old computer is an Intel cpu and motherboard and my new PC is AMD.
In any case, I’m leaning towards just being safe and reformatting my drives so that I don’t experience any weird issues when I plug them into the new PC. Should I reformat them on my old PC or on the new PC or how exactly could I go about this? Any best methods to do this?
Just would like to get more opinions/guidance on this. I’m sure these type of questions about installing old/new drives to other PC’s has been asked to death.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.