Question Old laptop SSD for PC

[Hdmstr]

Hello everyone

I have an M.2 SSD from an old laptop, I basically plugged it straight out and it still has all the laptop data/OS on it. I have an empty M.2 slot in my pc and wanted to know if I can plug it straight in or do I have to do something to clear it first? My main concern is whether having 2 OS's on 2 ssd's would be a problem in my pc.

I appreciate the help.

 

[DSzymborski]

As long as you're not trying to boot off of it, it should be fine.

 

[zinkles]

Hello everyone

I have an M.2 SSD from an old laptop, I basically plugged it straight out and it still has all the laptop data/OS on it. I have an empty M.2 slot in my pc and wanted to know if I can plug it straight in or do I have to do something to clear it first? My main concern is whether having 2 OS's on 2 ssd's would be a problem in my pc.

I appreciate the help.

It shouldn't be a problem.

You should consider wiping the drive though. This need not be done before putting it in the PC, you can put it in, boot into Windows, and erase that newly inserted drive. Even if you don't wipe it, nothing will happen, so you're fine either way.

The drive might also be partitioned the typical way that a OS drive would be, with the system reserved partitions and stuff, which you can delete and make it into one large partition (or whatever you need it to be)