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Question about old HD with win

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Flejmi

Flejmi

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I'm building a new PCi have an old Samsung ssd 128 GB with only battlefield 4 on it.And I have an old Hitachi regular 1 TB with win 7 in it and my old data.I want to put the new win 10 on the SSD and use the old HDD as a secondary drive
But I don't need windows 7 anymore...just want my stuff...music...pics...games....How is that gonna work?
 
#2
Is the Windows 7 drive still in the computer?

If so then use an external drive and transfer the data to that then one you know the data is there then wipe the windows 7 drive clean put it into the Windows 10 machine and transfer the data back. Keep the backup on the external that if anything happens then you have it.

If not then install the HDD into the windows 10 system transfer the files to the C: Drive and then wipe the old Windows 7 drive and put them back.

Would still strongly suggest that you create a back up of files that way should something happen you have a copy and they are gone.
 
#3
No both drives are and have been out of pc for 6 years now...is there a way I put in SSD ,load win 10 on it then put the old win7 HDD in ? And take out what I need?
 
#5
So since the SSD has only battlefield 4 in it won't be an issue even if it takes more then required space...like it will delete it or tell me I guess?I have no problem deleting that if the bios lets me during the build.And thank you.This PC is for my 10 year old who when he was 3(last day of age 3)
Poured not spilled...poured water down the PC with two GTX EVGA 760's in it i5 k
HDD, blue ray and ssd survived as did the CPU but I sold that...I mean I hope the HDD SSD and blue ray are fine ...
 
#6
Also I heard the Mobo that I'm getting the gigabyte b365m has issues with booting from SSD so I have a thousand worries
I m still waiting on the case network card and psu
 
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Flejmi said:
No both drives are and have been out of pc for 6 years now...is there a way I put in SSD ,load win 10 on it then put the old win7 HDD in ? And take out what I need?
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As I stated
Rustys said:
If not then install the HDD into the windows 10 system transfer the files to the C: Drive and then wipe the old Windows 7 drive and put them back.
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Or you can get a HDD to USB and transfer the files then wipe the drive and install the drive.
Flejmi said:
gigabyte b365m
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Has a built in network cart or are you talking about a WiFi one?
Flejmi said:
has issues with booting from SSD s
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May just require a BIOS update to correct.
 
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Rustys said:
As I stated
Or you can get a HDD to USB and transfer the files then wipe the drive and install the drive.

Has a built in network cart or are you talking about a WiFi one?
May just require a BIOS update to correct.
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Talking about wifi card since it doesn't have one
Wouldn't even bother with it but have to

How do you do USB to HDD? An internal hdd
 
#12
Waiting on psu
EVGA 500 wats gold
I have the old one still
Seasonic 650 gold
But fully modular and I don't wanna mess with it and the wires
I don't even have the power cord
Thinking of selling it bare as is ...that EVGA is not modular but it was pretty cheap so... hopefully I won't have problems...I told my son he might have a spillage accident...be a shame on such a nice computer...yea but I was 3 is his excuse...yea but I had two 760's in there and was about to mine bitcoin...but u enjoy ur new Minecraft machine buddy...that feeling of seeing a dark screen I wish to no one...and then seeing water there...my.fault for leaving the bottle on the table too.
 
#13
On selling it that is up to you.

Perfectly honest with you I would not trust any parts what were in the water damaged system. Then may still work and or after time they may expire.

While waiting on the other parts to come in what CPU and RAM are you putting on to the Gigabyte b365m
 
#14
It'll be the new i3 4.core 9th gen without on board graphics and some 2400 2 by 4gb crucial ballistics. PSU coming today sometime. and as long as the parts work for a little bit that's fine I don't even need the CD but it's a nice Blu-ray I got the windows disk if that Blu-ray doesn't work *** knows what I'll have to do.... If a hard drive doesn't work I'll just go buy a new one that's no big deal. But I got a OEM Windows disk.
 
#15
connected everything and it wont turn on
power sw and led+ and led - minus switches

first the led+in upper row then led - next to it then power sw cable next to it and nothing...big cable is in from psu to mobo ...there is a 3 pin connector from the case that goes i dont know where...
 
#16
had ecga cable run to upper left of mobo thinking to plug in a week 1030 low profile nvidia card,so switched and plugged in cpu cable in upper left corner,does the blue ray drive need direct cable to ssd?
 
#18
I did plug in as far as I think
Top left side of pins
Led + and - and then next to them the power sw
Like it says on the pins on the mobo
Very tiny letters
And nothing...
I'm gonna unpack all this
Unscrew it and send it all back and get a pre built
 
#19
Everything is plugged in
Idk
What a drag
I did lose the adaptor screw though
put the mobo on 4 screws from the top after I turned them in by hand trough the 4 holes from the other side of the case.So then put the mobo on top of them... screwed the regular 4 screws in...everything seems tight...for the life of me idk where the little adaptor is ...I didn't drop it...SSD is in.all the satas and the bigger one next to them are connected...I had ordered extension sata to molex so that's how the SSD is hooked up to the blue ray... There is absolutely no life in this machine ...I feel it lol...something is not right.I doubt anything came DOA eather...I wore shoes...anti static wrist band....

if I knew this is gonna be this much hassle I would have just ordered a pre build but I remember my first one beeing fairly easy to build so I was like hell yeah...
 
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thats it,the thermal paste is off ,everything is gona get returned while i still can,maybe its a bad psu or mobo...i even tried turning it on by touching the pins with the screwdriver and still not a beep...return it nicely and get a stupid pre built or better parts...:mad:
 
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