If you take a hard drive out of a computer and put it in another will there be anything on it?

January 5, 2009 on 7:04 pm | By | In bluefreesky.com | If you take a hard drive out of a computer and put it in another will there be anything on it?
  • I'm building a new computer and i want to take the hard drive out of my old computer. If i put it in the new computer will there be stuff on it from the previous computer or will it be free with full memory? If not is there a way to erase everything on the hard drive?


  • Hay please em telling you the simple way to save your DATA.
    just Copy your all DATA from C Drive to D, E or F if you have in your Hard Drive...
    copy the DATA from my Documents, from Desktop (if there is any file) or in C Drive if you put some files in it then Paste them to other drives as well.
    Now you can remove your Hard Drive and put in anther system and just you have to Reinstall you Windows again. this is the Simple way to do.


  • If you don't format the old HDD, it will have all the same information on it as before. Think of a audio CD. You can switch between CD players, but the songs stay on the CD. You can, however, reformat the HDD before you take it out of the old machine or reformat it after you have it in the new one.
    If you were thinking about adding "Window" back on your machine, just go ahead and do a re-install. This will wipe everything off and give you a new and clean copy of the OS. Just as it was when you bought it from the store.

    BUT.... I would highly recommend that you just go out and purchase a new hard drive to go into you new machine. A lot less headaches in the long run and beside, a new hard drive is relatively inexpensive nowadays. ($40 - 60) bucks...

    Good Luck !!!


  • Yes it will have everything you left on the hdd.


  • The hard drive's contents will be the same, regardless of what you do with it. You can google for Eraser, a program that wipes out the contents of various folders (be careful about what you tell it to erase--a particular folder such as My Documents, or the entire C drive, are two different things).

    Alternately, you can simply reformat the hard drive when you install the operating system for your new computer--that will over-write the material on the old hard drive.


  • hi jake, if i am understanding you right you are building a new computer and you are wanting to take a hard drive that has errors and dirty updates and dirt and dust in your brand new computer with good parts and the expense of all of the new parts like the new motherboard and new ram and you are want to use a dirty hard drive is that a good idea. i would be a fool to think that if i am going through the expense to build a new computer i would definitly use quality parts. sorry i would not recommend it. i have a computer repairman friend of mine and he had the same idea and i ask him the same question that i just asked you and he said i don't think it would hurt so later he told me that i was right it caused a virus in his new computer and caused him to replace the hard drive anyway but i told him now he has a new computer that got dirty. a lesson is here if you get my meaning but i am giving you to thumbs up for building your own computers but if you are building do it right saving you a lot of work and annoyance lol good luck hope i was helpful to you







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