Closed - Setting up the harddrive in my computer

[Quarterman 1st MRB]

Name: Keith Quarterman

Rank: SSgt

Type of issue:Hardware

Brief Description of Issue: Okay, So my friend took my old hard drive and put it into my new computer. I can see all the files on my desktop, but he told me I can go to the boot menu and somehow set it up where I can switch between hard drives. I have no idea how to do this and I was wondering if someone could give me a dumb down step by step on how to do this. I would like to start dling music *cough cough* and have it not affect my gaming hard drive. Also If I start down this path, If i get stuck somehow in the middle of the steps made, will it fuck it up where i wont be able to log back onto the normal hard drive haha.

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[Lafy BAR]

I assume by "switch between hard drives" you mean boot the old copy of windows that is installed on the other drive.

Since you've said this is from your old computer, windows is going to need to have all the drivers reinstalled. Do you know how to do that? Does the old drive have the same version of windows as the new computer? If not the newer hardware may not be supported by an older version of windows.

As long as you use the boot settings built into windows you shouldn't have any problem getting back online if you have issues setting it up. Please read them carefully before proceeding. Keep in mind that where he typed "Vista", that's the name of the 2nd windows install, so you could put "crappy old drive" or anything you want. Also, the big long string of random looking characters will be specific to your system, don't copy and paste the example he's showing.

Here are some Instructions on how to set it up.

[Quarterman 1st MRB]

Might as well close this. I have no time to try and do this before my ELOA. Sorry

[Holland 1st MRB]

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[Holland 1st MRB]

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