safe transfer of old hard drive to new pc

[laurencewithau]

Hi, I now have a self-build pc, all of it being new, including the Windows 7 Home Premium OS, The old pc still has its hard drive and the same OS. I now find, however, that I should have copied files from the old hard drive onto a flash drive in order to transfer them to my new pc.One solution would be to install the old hard drive into the new pc, which has plenty of room for it. I have no reason to think the old drive is infected with malware, and I would use it in the new pc for only an hour or two. What can I do to ensure that my new pc does not catch anything nasty off the old hard drive? Thanks, laurencewithau.

 

[basroil]

Just make sure your new computer has up-to-date antivirus from bitdefender, kapersky, or norton and you should have no problems

 

[kyzarvs]

You could:

Put the old hard drive in the new machine

Boot off a 'live' CD / DVD (there are lots of O/S disc images available)

Use that to view the old drive and transfer just the files you want to USB

Remove old drive, reboot to new O/S and copy from USB

Technically limits your exposure to only the files you are copying - personally I think in this situation it would be overkill, but it's an option

 

[laurencewithau]

Just make sure your new computer has up-to-date antivirus from bitdefender, kapersky, or norton and you should have no problems

Hi basroil. Thanks for your reply. I 'll do as you say.
Thanks again

 

[laurencewithau]

You could:

Put the old hard drive in the new machine

Boot off a 'live' CD / DVD (there are lots of O/S disc images available)

Use that to view the old drive and transfer just the files you want to USB

Remove old drive, reboot to new O/S and copy from USB

Hi kyzarvs. Thanks for your reply. I'll keep your solution in mind for next time. Thanks again

Technically limits your exposure to only the files you are copying - personally I think in this situation it would be overkill, but it's an option