So I installed an old 2.5" HDD from a laptop that broke several years back into my gaming pc as a second drive for more storage. I have several questions.
One, how can I find out if the OS on it is windows vista or windows 7? Two, can I load the OS from the old HDD to a usb drive that would allow me to install that version of windows to a different HDD not in this pc?
Three, before installing this "new" drive I had two storage options: local disk (C and DVD RW Drive (D; now (after installing the other drive) I have the above mentioned drives as well as System (E, Local disk (F (which seems to be the actual drive), and Recovery (G. So, adding one HDD added 3 disk locations instead of 1. Also E: has 198mb of space, F: has 285gb, and G: has 12.4gb. So the last question is why were 3 drives added instead of 1 and can I delete the extra 2 drives/do they have an important purpose? This is what the drives are now: http://imageshack.com/a/img540/7213/6d6P8k.png Thanks in advance!
One, how can I find out if the OS on it is windows vista or windows 7? Two, can I load the OS from the old HDD to a usb drive that would allow me to install that version of windows to a different HDD not in this pc?
Three, before installing this "new" drive I had two storage options: local disk (C and DVD RW Drive (D; now (after installing the other drive) I have the above mentioned drives as well as System (E, Local disk (F (which seems to be the actual drive), and Recovery (G. So, adding one HDD added 3 disk locations instead of 1. Also E: has 198mb of space, F: has 285gb, and G: has 12.4gb. So the last question is why were 3 drives added instead of 1 and can I delete the extra 2 drives/do they have an important purpose? This is what the drives are now: http://imageshack.com/a/img540/7213/6d6P8k.png Thanks in advance!